by Aliyu Bello | Jan 8, 2025
The National Integrated Agribusiness Agenda (NIAA) is a visionary framework developed by the Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG) to revolutionize Nigeria’s agricultural sector. It focuses on empowering small-scale producers (SSPs) while promoting sustainable practices, financial inclusion, and robust public-private partnerships.
Key Highlights:
- Addresses challenges faced by SSPs, including limited access to finance, outdated technology, and inadequate infrastructure.
- Advocates for climate-smart agriculture, modernized legal frameworks, and improved governance of agricultural cooperatives.
- Leverages stakeholder collaboration and data-driven approaches to enhance productivity and market access.
- Emphasizes fairness, transparency, and innovation to ensure the agribusiness sector contributes significantly to Nigeria’s economic growth.
Explore how this transformative agenda aligns with national development goals and positions Nigeria as a leader in global agribusiness. Read the full document to discover the comprehensive strategies shaping the future of agriculture.
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by Aliyu Bello | Jan 8, 2025
The Narrative Report on the National Integrated Agribusiness Agenda (NIAA) Validation Workshop captures the pivotal discussions, recommendations, and strategies developed during the October 2024 workshop held in Abuja. Organized by the Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG), in collaboration with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, this event aimed to validate and refine the NIAA framework—a comprehensive roadmap designed to empower small-scale producers and enhance Nigeria’s agribusiness ecosystem.
Key Highlights:
- Participation from diverse stakeholders, including government bodies, NGOs, agribusinesses, and financial institutions.
- Focus on governance, financial inclusion, conflict resolution, and sustainable policies for small-scale producers.
- Emphasis on aligning agribusiness strategies with Nigeria’s Medium-Term National Development Plan (2026–2030) and Agenda 2050.
This report offers a detailed account of the collaborative effort to create a more inclusive, resilient, and globally competitive agribusiness sector. Explore the document to discover the actionable insights shaping the future of agribusiness in Nigeria.
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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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