by Aliyu Bello | Dec 26, 2024
As Nigeria faces increasing challenges from climate change, the agricultural sector must adapt to ensure food security, economic growth, and environmental sustainability. The Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) Policy Framework, developed by NABG in collaboration with federal and state-level stakeholders, provides a strategic roadmap for transforming agriculture in Nigeria.
This comprehensive framework integrates climate adaptation and mitigation measures to enhance productivity, build resilience, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. By aligning with global climate goals, the CSA Framework addresses the needs of smallholder farmers, agribusinesses, and rural communities, creating opportunities for sustainable growth.
The framework is the result of an inclusive, multi-stakeholder process, ensuring it reflects the realities of Nigeria’s diverse agricultural landscape. It outlines clear roles for federal, state, and local governments and introduces innovative coordination mechanisms to drive implementation.
Discover how this groundbreaking policy will foster sustainable agricultural practices, empower farmers, and secure Nigeria’s future. Download the full document to explore the details and join the movement towards a climate-smart agricultural sector.
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by Aliyu Bello | Sep 23, 2024
The Nigeria Agricultural Commodity Standards Grading Policy is a transformative framework aimed at revolutionizing agribusiness in Nigeria. Spearheaded by the Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG) and supported by key stakeholders, this policy seeks to standardize, grade, and regulate agricultural commodities for local and international markets.
The policy addresses challenges like commodity rejection in global markets, price volatility, and inefficiencies in the trading system. It introduces a grading system that ensures transparency, fairness, and quality assurance, benefiting farmers, traders, and consumers alike. By aligning with international standards, the policy enhances Nigeria’s competitiveness under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
Key features include:
- Categorization of agricultural products into distinct grades.
- Improved price discovery mechanisms.
- Support for sustainable farming and predictable market systems.
- Facilitation of global acceptance for Nigerian produce.
Explore how this groundbreaking initiative empowers stakeholders, fosters economic growth, and positions Nigeria as a leader in the global agricultural market.
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by Aliyu Bello | Sep 22, 2024
The Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG) Gender Policy reaffirms NABG’s commitment to fostering equality, diversity, and inclusion within the agribusiness sector. This policy aims to create a workplace environment free from discrimination and harassment, ensuring that every individual—regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, or other attributes—can thrive and contribute to the organization’s mission.
Key Highlights:
- Promotes fair treatment in recruitment, promotion, and professional development.
- Establishes a safe, respectful, and flexible working environment for all employees.
- Advocates for gender-sensitive practices in leadership and decision-making.
- Sets clear accountability measures for upholding workplace equality and addressing grievances.
NABG’s Gender Policy embodies its dedication to empowering women, youth, and vulnerable groups, both within the organization and across Nigeria’s agribusiness value chains. Read the full document to explore how NABG is championing gender equality and driving systemic change in agribusiness
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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 26, 2024
Executive Summary
The past decade has witnessed an explosion in the global supply of digitalization for agriculture (D4Ag) innovation.
Across the regions that comprise the focus of this report—Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), South Asia (SA), Southeast Asia (SEA), and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) (hereafter collectively referred to as “LMICs” (low- and middle-income countries))—we identified nearly 1,400 currently active D4Ag solutions.
These solutions represent six different D4Ag use cases: Advisory & Information, Market Linkages & Access, Financial Access, Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Management & Efficiency, and Enterprise R&D. The largest proportion is headquartered in sub-Saharan Africa (50%), though a significant number of D4Ag solutions hail from South Asia (21%) and Latin America and the Caribbean (18%) regions.
Despite showing the largest per-annum growth rate in the number of D4Ag solutions of any region over both the past five and ten years, respectively, Southeast Asia still accounts for a relatively small share of the total (7%). The remainder (~4%) are active in but headquartered outside of the LMIC regions of focus (i.e., in North America, Europe, Northeast Asia, or the Middle East). Growth in the number of D4Ag solutions is decelerating.
While nearly half of all D4Ag solutions active in LMICs were started in the past five years, there is a clear nd consistent slowdown in the annual rate of new D4Ag solutions entering the market. The cumulative annual growth rate (CAGR) of the number of D4Ag solutions from 2012 to 2018 (33% p.a.) was more than three times larger than that for the next four years, from 2018 to 2022 (9% p.a.). The trend of deceleration is common to every region, including relative upstart Southeast Asia.
The deceleration certainly reflects a blend of increasing market maturity, consolidation, rationalization, and even COVID-19 impact—especially as sub- scale innovators start to close their doors and some venture-invested companies have shown themselves to be at the end of their ropes.
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