By Balbir Singh There is a question that haunts every serious observer of international development: with billions of dollars flowing into agricultural programs across Africa and...
By Juwon Akin-Olotu ₦2.2 trillion (US$1.6 billion) allocated for agriculture. Record budget figures. Renewed hope for food security. These were the headlines that dominated Nigeria’s agricultural...
By Ziad Hamoui Official trade statistics capture barely a sixth of West Africa’s actual regional food trade. This massive data gap is undermining food security and...
By Juwon Akin-Olotu Walk into any international development conference in Europe or the United States, and you will encounter the same carefully curated imagery projected onto...
By Balbir Singh At global forums – from Davos to Addis Ababa – policymakers and development advisors repeat a familiar mantra: Africa must industrialize and boost...
By Curtis Akunfu “A farmer with a hoe cannot compete with a farmer driving a combine harvester.“ This simple truth reverberates across the farmlands of the...
