Essay On Insecurity In Nigeria

Food security is a necessary component of life sustenance on earth. Human activities; be it social, economic, health, agriculture, etc will virtually ground to a halt without adequate and nutritional meals. While modern agricultural practices have led to significant reduction in the number of malnourished people in some developing countries, one in every four persons still go hungry in Africa [1]. In Nigeria, for example, better agricultural productivity of small holder farmers who make up about 50% of the population have been identified as one of the critical elements required to eliminate food insecurity [2]. This can not be far-fetched as a sizable number of agricultural products used to feed the populace comes from remote and rural areas whose isolation means they have little or no access to power supply from the grid. Over the years, diesel powered generators have been the only source of power to most rural communities to service essential social and economic activity like health and agriculture. However, concerns about the rising cost of

Example of such study is presented in [3], which demonstrated the economic feasibility of hybrid power generation in six rural communities geographically spread across Nigeria. Findings showed that a PV/diesel/battery hybrid configuration is considered the optimal for all sites under consideration. [4] proposed an optimal hybrid system for an off-grid village where results show that RES generator is an economically viable substitute to extending grid services to a remote location. An optimization of a DC micro grid for rural applications that included agricultural load is described by [5] whose result show that rural areas with partial grid connection will have a lower cost of energy (COE) when compared to an autonomous