At the recent World Economic Forum, the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a historic speech that pulled the mask off a failed rule-based international system where super powers bully and control lesser powers and informed on the urgency for a better, just and equitable system. Carney rallied for middle powers to unite together, cooperate […]
Conflict and Global Food Insecurity (Israel-Iran War) The series of violent conflicts emerging these days –Israel-Iran war in particular -have me worried about what the state of global food security will be by the end of this year and the ensuing impact. According to a recent report by the World Food Programme (WFP) “65% of […]
The Impact of Ramadan on Food Security The term food security has different definitions and which generally have the pillars of availability, accessibility, utilization, and stability. The availability encompasses production, distribution and exchange of food. It generally means food to be available to people by these means. The other pillar accessibility portrays having access to […]
The current Nigeria and France “renewed” relationship is what comes to my mind as I think about the recent X (Twitter) discourse I facilitated on slavery, colonialism, imperialism and the Nigerian Agriculture. Whether the renewed relationship means good for Nigeria? As Asiwaju visited Paris, signed among others to deepen commerce and diplomatic ties, was a […]
In 2023, agriculture contributed 25% of the Nigerian $375b GDP. This is a sum of $93.7b (value added). In the same year, ₦228.4b of the nation’s ₦221.83trn budget went to agriculture. It represents 1.05%. This is equivalent of $523.4m factoring in $435.75 FX rate benchmark of the 2023 budget. Hence, in the period of foucus […]
I had seen the briefing by the minister of agriculture on the 150-day import window and other measures but kept mute. Several people asked about my thoughts of it, so I decided to give my opinion. The government opting for food imports with waivers shows it is abreast with what it must do to drive […]
Note: This article was (first) published in 2022, on LinkedIn The whole catfish sector is in distress from inflation and there is bound to be serious effects. Farmers recently reached a consensus to sell catfish for ₦2,000/kg irrespective of grow-out size as they cannot keep up with a rising production cost, feed in particular. Price […]
Note: This article was first published on LinkedIn, in Sept 2021. Changes in economic parameters are often cracks that lead to goldmine. But the thing is, they most time appear as faultline, problem, failure, incongruity and it takes a discerning mind to see opportunity lurking. Even, the opportunity often requires innovative thinking to yield. 63% […]
Note: This article was first published on LinkedIn, in Sept 2021. With the worsened food inflation, virtually all protein sources are now costly and not readily accessible. We do not see the full implication of this. It’s a scary one. And the end result might just be a useful one to some people, suggesting the […]
IMPORTANT NOTICE I have made a video on DIY bottle irrigation. Here is a link to the video. You should watch it alongside this article as it helps to understand more about the innovation. The video and this article complement each other, but they do have some insight(s) peculiar to each of them. So, I […]
