Food Security: Shield Africa Trains, Empowers Benue Youths, Women in Fish Farming
As part of efforts to boost food security and tackle unemployment, the Shield Africa Sustainability and Development Initiative has graduated beneficiaries of the 2025/2026 cohort of the Shield Africa Farmers’ Academy (SAFA) in Benue State after an intensive six-month free training programme on fish production and management practices.
The programme, implemented in collaboration with the Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University of Agriculture, Makurdi, targeted youths and women from Oju Local Government Area of the state.
Speaking during the graduation ceremony, the President of Shield Africa, Mrs. Osenaga Orokpo, described the initiative as part of ongoing efforts to promote sustainable agriculture, empower vulnerable groups and stimulate rural economic development.
She said Shield Africa Farmers’ Academy, one of the organisation’s flagship programmes, was designed to equip participants with practical agricultural knowledge, entrepreneurial skills and access to opportunities that would enable them establish viable agribusiness enterprises across different agricultural value chains.
