by Aliyu Bello | Jun 28, 2024
Agri Africa aims to be a platform that will bring together stakeholders from the private and public sector to increase the efficiency of agribusiness value chain in Nigeria and Africa, providing a thriving environment for business, connections and driving the evolution of agribusiness in Nigeria.
The 3-day event will drive inclusive real economic growth in Nigeria and Africa by creating the right opportunity to discuss current issues which will enable a strong agribusiness economy; capable of meeting domestic food demand, building manufacturing base, enhancing productivity, overcoming storage challenges as well as ushering investment into the agribusiness.
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by iKml1 | Jun 24, 2024
STRATEGIC CONTEXT
According to the IITA, Maize is the most important cereal crop in sub-Saharan Africa, offering a diet staple for more than 300 million people. It accounts for 30-50% of low-income household expenditure in Africa and over 30% of calorie intake in the continent comes from maize.
MAIZE SUPPLY AND DEMAND IN NIGERIA
According to PwC, Nigeria is Africa’s second largest maize producer and the 14th largest producer globally. Citing the FAO, PwC notes that 11 million metric tonnes were harvested from over 6.8 million hectares of land, a growth rate of 49% from a decade earlier, and cites data from farmers’ association, which puts the production level at 20 million metric tonnes annually. Borno, Niger, Plateau, Katsina, Gombe, Bauchi, Kogi, Kaduna, Oyo and Taraba states account for 64% of the maize production in Nigeria.
According to BusinessDay, poultry feed production takes up about 60% of Nigeria’s maize consumption, 25% going into food and beverage industrial activity and the remaining 15% goes to household consumption.
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by iKml1 | Jun 6, 2024
DIVERSIFYING FARMING THROUGH AN INTEGRATED AGRICULTURE-AQUACULTURE SYSTEM
Integrating fish into rice farming is a diversification strategy that can lead to maximized productivity, increased incomes and improvements in food security and nutrition for rice growing communities. This practice of combining aquaculture and agriculture is widespread in parts of Asia; however, in other areas of the world, farmers lack the technical skills and inputs to implement it.
This project concentrated its efforts in Nigeria, which could benefit significantly from farm diversification to combat its high prevalence of undernutrition and undernourishment. The project design included elements to address the issues inhibiting the integration of aquaculture and agriculture in the country, and to develop templates, technological packages and adaptation and mitigation measures for potential challenges to the establishment of the system.
At its core, the project sought to refine the aquaculture-agriculture farm diversification methodology to suit agroecosystems and socioeconomic conditions in sub-Saharan Africa, and possibly other regions beyond Asia, with the ultimate aim of scaling up the benefits of this practice globally.
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by iKml1 | Feb 23, 2024
Executive Summary
Nigeria is still to match the ambition of its commitments despite measurable progress on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Even though Nigeria graduated to lower-middle-income status in 2014, its immense human development potential remains unfulfilled, and its most vulnerable people continue to suffer critical levels of food insecurity and malnutrition, driven by persistent conflict, organized violence, recurrent climate shocks and broad exposure to the impact of climate change.
Africa’s biggest economy and most populous country has the world’s fifth-highest burden of people experiencing food crisis or worse, exceeded only by Yemen, Ethiopia, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With at least 19.5 million people in need of urgent assistance in 2022 and some communities in the conflict-affected northeast projected to slide into catastrophic levels of food insecurity, targeted humanitarian action is urgently needed to save lives and livelihoods, requiring not only emergency responses but also anticipatory action.
Nigeria’s abundant natural resources and untapped human capital indicate the potential to achieve zero hunger, but one in three households cannot afford a nutritious diet and more than 100 million people report at least moderate food insecurity. The severity and magnitude of the regionalized crises have been compounded by the global food supply crisis, constraining Nigeria’s economic recovery from the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. WFP plans to expand its humanitarian operations in northeastern and northwestern Nigeria and among Cameroonian refugees in border state
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