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LatestDecember 16, 2024
Why Your Agrifood Company Might Need A Rebrand
Effective branding doesn’t just set your business apart; it adds value by creating differentiation in a crowded market.
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- Value Chain Development
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December 9, 2024
Advancing Nigeria's Dairy Industry
The Nigerian dairy industry holds immense potential for growth and sustainability. By addressing the challenges of low productivity, inadequate infrastructure, and limited access to resources, stakeholders can harness the full potential of the sector.
Read MoreNovember 25, 2024
Reducing Post-Harvest Losses in Nigeria through Cold Chain Investment
Major post-harvest losses of about 40% occur in developing nations like Nigeria during storage and transport. To tackle this situation, options such as the cold chain infrastructure (CCI) provide a practical way to reduce these losses while providing a solid return on investment to the agrifood industry.
Read MoreNovember 19, 2024
Nigerian Rice Industry: The Journey So Far
The Nigerian rice milling industry is at a crossroads. While it has made significant strides over the past decade, harsh macroenvironment challenges still threaten its sustainability.
Read MoreSeptember 16, 2024
How to Finance your Agribusiness
Agribusiness in Nigeria, encompassing farming and related activities, plays a crucial role in the nation's economy by contributing significantly to GDP and providing substantial employment. Despite its importance, the sector faces major financing challenges.Agribusiness financing, which includes loans, credit lines, guarantees, and grants, is essential for boosting sector output and ensuring food security.
Read MoreSeptember 9, 2024
Nigeria's Food Import Waiver; Seizing Opportunities through Policy and Business Readiness
Nigeria government announced suspension of import duties and value-added tax on a range of essential food items, including husked brown rice, sorghum, millet, maize, wheat, and beans.
Read MoreSeptember 2, 2024
Market Structures in Commodity Trading
Here, we explore different market structures, such as spot markets, forward trading, and futures trading, to understand the market structures in commodity trading.
Read MoreAugust 20, 2024
A Beginners' Guide to Commodity Trading in Nigeria
When a currency weakens, exports can become more attractive to international buyers because goods are cheaper, which leads to higher sales and profits. For instance, Nigeria has recently experienced a surge in exports, a trend that local businesses seek to benefit from due to current exchange rates.
Read MoreAugust 19, 2024
Adopting Reliable Pricing Mechanism to Improve the Cattle Sector in Nigeria
To attract investment into the sector, investors and businesses need a clear understanding of the business pricing mechanism to build their models and optimise their operations rather than leaving it to chance and ignorance of potential buyers.
Read MoreAugust 11, 2024
Understanding Seasonality in Nigeria; A Case Study of Food Prices
The escalating cost of living and stagnant incomes are forcing families to make difficult choices, among which is adopting strategic food purchasing habits for economic survival in the face of persistent inflationary pressures.
Read MoreAugust 8, 2024
Building Resilience in Agrifood; Mitigating the Risks of Climate Change in Nigeria
Rising temperatures, varying rainfall patterns, and more frequent extreme weather events are altering crop suitability, leading to lower yields and poorer quality in agricultural-producing states in Nigeria.
Read MoreAugust 6, 2024
Reclaiming Lost Glory; Nigeria's Palm Oil Renaissance
Nigeria's palm oil industry is a stark testament to the fragility of economic potential. Once a global leader, the country's dominance in palm oil production symbolised its agricultural might and immense prospect.
Read MoreJuly 31, 2024
Skyrocketing Feed Costs; A Threat to Poultry Industry Sustainability
The poultry industry in Nigeria is currently facing a critical challenge due to the soaring cost of feed. The surge in feed prices has precipitated grave concerns among poultry farmers, industry stakeholders, and consumers.
Read MoreJuly 24, 2024
Analysing the EUDR and Nigeria's Cocoa Industry Future
The European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) is a regulation aimed at ensuring that the products that EU citizens consume do not contribute to deforestation or forest degradation worldwide.
Read MoreJuly 15, 2024
The Case for Export-Led Growth in Nigeria's Agrifood Sector
When the Nigerian government looks at the agricultural sector, it sees a sector that imports too much.
Read MoreMarch 18, 2024
Nigeria’s Food Insecurity: Why Trade Policy Reform is Essential
To find a lasting solution to growing food insecurity, Nigeria must reform its agricultural trade policies.
Read MoreMarch 8, 2024
Coping with Escalating Food Inflation in Nigeria
According to latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), food inflation reached 35.4% year-on-year in January 2024 - the highest level since September 2001
Read MoreFebruary 10, 2024
World Pulses Day: How Nigeria Can Extract More Value from its Beans
Nigeria, with almost 4 million tonnes of annual beans production, is the world’s largest producer of dried cowpea.
Read MoreJanuary 15, 2024
Why Nigeria Needs to Rethink Its Land Use for Agriculture
Land is one of the most stressed resources and its multiple uses contribute to overlapping challenges including climate change, land degradation and biodiversity loss.
Read MoreNovember 30, 2023
Hitting the bull’s eye: Rethinking Agri-food Policies in Nigeria
What can Nigeria’s Agri-food policymakers learn from their immediate predecessors?
Read MoreOctober 26, 2023
May 30, 2023
How the New Government Can Support Businesses in Its First Year.
Our agenda for the first year of the new administration.
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September 2, 2024
Food Inflation and Young People's Nutrition
During a recent podcast by Vestance on Twitter Space, experts shared insights into how rising food inflation is affecting the health of young people in Nigeria.
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July 10, 2024
Vestance Co-founder discussed NBS Agricultural Households Census
Nigeria's agricultural paradox: 40 million agricultural households, yet the country still struggles with food security & relies on imports. Read our programme manager Rildwan Bello's insights on the recently released agricultural census data
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June 29, 2024
Insights into the Nigeria Commodity Market for Export
Vestance organised a one day capacity development training on Nigeria Commodity Exports
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