No Farmer, No Nation

Food is our common heritage, and provides leverage for the productivity of any nation. It is a strong statement that shows that food security is one of the major components of nation building.

Half of wildfires result in dust events or storms

Wildfires affect large areas of the Earth’s surface and many of their effects occur at an alarming speed. The fires that consumed half of Australia’s Kangaroo Island in 2019 left a trail of animal corpses in their wake. In 2021, wildfires burned...

Food Security: Women Inclusion Matters

Women are key stakeholders in the agricultural sector, providing support services in production and actively participating in processing and trading; contributing to the economic growth and development of the nation.

Postharvest Loss: A threat to Food Security and Farmers’ Prosperity

Gradually, harvest season has commenced for rainy season farming, and farmers are either harvesting or preparing to harvest their produce. Sadly, in Nigeria about 50% of postharvest losses are recorded annually (especially for fruits and vegetables).

The Real Cost of Food: We are part of the Solution to Reducing it (2)

What would you say about a farmer who lost his or her farmland as a result of insecurity or a farmer whose livelihood was negatively impacted as a result of a flood that ravaged all his or her crops (with total loss)? No safety net, no insurance, no...

Disadvantaged, overlooked: Farmers get help to escape poverty

For millions of smallholder farmers in Nigeria, poverty has been the reality for a better part of their lives, and may still be the case for those unable to partake in initiatives to help them scale. The poverty challenge for farmers, is one that has...

The Real Cost of Food: We are part of the Solution to Reducing it

I have a dream! I have a dream!! That one day, farmers would get optimum value from what they produce rather than the meagre value they survive with.

Food Safety: When Farmers are Intentional on Safe Drying

The issue of food safety cannot be overemphasized as this is the main foundation of food security. Food should be a medicine to the body; providing and releasing the necessary ingredients needed to build and repair the body at all times. However,...

The Goodness Paradox: sustainability requires businesses to choose

Standards and labels will determine who is allowed to produce for which market in the future, as we discussed earlier. Farmers, horticulturalists and growers risk getting trapped in the networks of standard setters who declare them 'okay'. This...

Hunger is Coming - Weather “no dey look face”

There was a change everyone looked forward to, but a change in climate was the least we expected as we were too focused on other areas. Unfortunately, we all have contributed and still contribute to the menace of climate change.

Foodlog partners BusinessDay to link Dutch and Nigerian businesses

BusinessDay and Foodlog Media BV have announced a partnership to provide readers with insightful content and analysis about conditions and trends in Nigeria and the Netherlands' business and finance environments. This is to help bridge any investment...

Governments do not reward real product sustainability

Just 5 years ago, one in five companies tracked either their carbon footprint, biodiversity footprint or environmental impact. The majority of the participants in the recent AgriFoodNetworks webinar The CO2 Mismatch, said it is necessary to measure...