EOA-Initiative Nigeria Pillar 2 Report

Country Lead Organization	Association of Organic Agriculture Practitioners of Nigeria
Pillar Implementing Partners	Western Region	Northern Region	Eastern Region
Information & Communication	Healthy Food for Consumers Initiative	Federation of Agricultural Commodities Association of Nigeria	Justice and Peace Development Commission

Major Achievement	Lessons Learned	Major Challenges
Using the platforms like the African Organic Agriculture Conference and the annual NOABS, the visibility of the project has reached at least 29 countries via distribution branded material	Informed consumers are looking for healthy and organic produce	One major challenge is the thin budget line. This has limited the extent of advocacy via electronic and print media in Nigeria

The capacity of farmers and extension agents in EOA practices has been improved via trainings and exposure to some print documents. In fact, some of the print materials were produced in local dialect (5 languages)	The use of branded materials is important to increase visibility

There is increased sensitization on the benefits of EOA to producers, consumers and the environment	Production of educational materials in local dialect enhances acceptance of the initiative

Two farmers’ resource centres were established to address increasing information need of organic farmers	Information on new trends, innovation and current market price is germane for continuous production	There is the need to establish more / specialise resource centre for specific value chain like cocoa