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.
Nigeria moves to institutionalise digital farming advisory services, Ethiopia secures fresh climate-resilience funding, and a Nigerian agribusiness signs a major coffee expansion deal in Liberia. Plus, concerns over fake fertilisers, Africa’s $65 billion farm finance gap, and Zichis Agro’s ₦2 billion expansion funding.
Nigeria moves to unlock youth access to agricultural land, rolls out a new dairy policy to reduce milk imports, and sees fresh investment momentum through Ecobank’s $450 million Nature Bond and a $12 billion agribusiness venture.
Nigeria’s agricultural sector posted a strong rebound in Q1 2026, helping drive national economic growth. This edition examines the recovery, funding gaps holding back ginger production in Delta State, growing debate over AfDB’s livestock financing strategy, Syngenta’s investment in disease-resistant crops, and why nearly 35 million Nigerians could face acute hunger in the coming months.
This week’s Agri-Digest tracks major developments shaping agriculture across Nigeria and Africa, from the commissioning of 11 Farmers’ Hubs in Bauchi under the ESTRRA project to the Bank of Agriculture’s new food price stabilisation plan. We also examine fertiliser shortages, Nigeria’s first fertiliser guide in 14 years, Rwanda’s export earnings, and the persistent challenge of agricultural lending.
Lagos’ food hub system surpasses ₦3.8 billion in transactions as Ghana plans a $1 billion cocoa bond. We also track East Africa’s climate-smart dairy investments, rising mechanisation concerns in Nigeria, and the growing debate around Farming as a Service in Africa.
Nigeria moves to strengthen rural market access with an $850 million RAAMP expansion, while BoA pushes a nationwide mechanisation drive. This edition also tracks rising concerns over fertiliser prices, agritech startup failures, Ghana’s cold storage innovation, and the intensifying global glyphosate debate.
As pressure mounts on Nigeria’s economy, agriculture is back in focus. This edition tracks the innovations, risks, and reforms that could determine its impact.
FSSS calls for urgent anti-deforestation action as new data reveals widespread land degradation in Northern Nigeria. This edition also tracks a major carbon credit deal in India, rising heat threats to wheat farming in Kano, and the growing financing gap leaving millions of hectares uncultivated.
Africa’s agrochemical market is expanding, but access gaps remain. Nigeria’s fertiliser exports are rising, yet smallholders still struggle to benefit. This edition breaks down the numbers, trends, and what they mean for the sector.
Nigeria’s cassava industry faces a supply crunch as factories run below capacity, while Kogi stabilises cashew prices and agritech momentum builds across Africa.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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 institutionalise digital farming advisory services, Ethiopia secures fresh climate-resilience funding, and a Nigerian agribusiness signs a major coffee expansion deal in Liberia. Plus, concerns over fake fertilisers, Africa’s $65 billion farm finance gap, and Zichis Agro’s ₦2 billion expansion funding.
Nigeria’s poultry sector faces a supply squeeze as chick prices surge 67%, raising concerns over egg shortages. This edition also tracks carbon finance innovation, cocoa pricing tensions and new agribusiness reforms.
The 10th edition of Agri-Digest covers stories on Nigerian researchers unlocking Striga-resistant cowpea varieties as new investments pours into dairy and poultry sector, signalling shifts across the food system and many more stories.
Nigeria’s poultry sector faces fresh tensions as farmers resist a $900m China-backed deal, even as a new indigenous breed promises productivity gains. We also track export losses, AGROW funding, and global policy shifts shaping agriculture.