Agri-Digest delivers concise, practical updates on key developments across agriculture. From policy and innovation to markets, expert insights, and sector opportunities, each edition keeps you informed and connected to what matters most.

Iran War Sparks Fertiliser Fears, Nigeria’s ₦1.44trn Food Imports Surge

Rising geopolitical tensions threaten fertiliser supply just as Nigeria’s food imports surge. This week’s Agri-Digest tracks the risks shaping agriculture and food systems.

Nigeria Moves to Reform Farm Insurance as ₦250bn Credit Opens for Smallholders

Nigeria is moving to overhaul agricultural insurance while opening a ₦250 billion credit facility for smallholder farmers. This edition also tracks hybrid wheat innovation, new agribusiness financing deals and major investment signals shaping African agriculture.

Land, Livestock and Legitimacy: What This Week’s Agri Shifts Really Mean

This week’s Agri-Digest examines how agriculture is colliding with history, capital, and climate across Africa. From Kenya’s Solai land controversy to Nigeria’s livestock investment boom and fresh global pushes for nature-positive farming, we ask a simple but urgent question: who really benefits when agriculture scales?

Delayed Funds, Fragile Farms, and Signals from Global Agriculture

This week’s Agri-Digest tracks why ₦174bn in agriculture funds remain unreleased, how import relief is squeezing farmers, and where innovation and global policy shifts may offer a way forward.

Livestock Capital and Falling Food Prices

Livestock is quietly pulling capital back into Nigeria’s agriculture sector, even as falling food prices squeeze farmers and expose old policy trade-offs. This week’s Agri-Digest unpacks what is driving renewed investor interest, and why lower inflation is not the relief it seems.

False Rains, Cocoa Tensions and ₦3.53tr Imports

This week’s Agri-Digest explores NiMet’s warning on false rainfall onset and heat risks for 2026, tensions in the cocoa sector over the stalled Cocoa Board Bill, steady tomato prices ahead of Ramadan, Nigeria’s ₦3.53 trillion raw material import bill, new zero-interest loans for smallholders, and rising post-harvest losses across the continent.

Love, Promises, and Idle Tractors

Big promises, idle tractors, and farmers under pressure. This week’s Agri-Digest looks at where Nigeria’s agri policies stall, and why execution now matters more than ambition.

How Better Data Could Change What Farmers Plant​

Data is finally entering Nigeria’s seed system. Here’s what else is moving agriculture this week.

Accelerating Smallholder Farmers Growth.