More than seven million people are expected to be in food crisis in the country between June and August, this year.
It is projected that over four million people are expected to be in food crisis through May.
This was contained in the March report of Cadre Harmonis (CH) Analysis Outcome for 16 northern states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The CH analysis was facilitated by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), World Food Programme (WFP), FEWSNET, and the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS).
FAO Representative in Nigeria, Mr Alhassan Cisse, told reporters on Thursday in Abuja during the presentation of the March CH analysis outcome for 16 states and the FCT, explained that CH has been a regional framework for consensual analysis of acute food insecurity across the West Africa countries.
Cisse said results from successive CH analysis have become the major yardstick for estimating the areas and population of vulnerable people in need of humanitarian assistance.
“The improvement has largely been due to the efforts of the government and massive intervention of the humanitarian communities, without which the situation would have worsen,” he said