I appreciate that this is a rather long post but please read through to the end. Spores magazine released a special issue titled ‘The rise of the agricultural value chain’. I found this issue very interesting and eye-opening. It echoed some of my thoughts and I have chosen to share some of the contents with […]
So as I dug deeper into the literature and I came to realise that when we get down to basics there is no real difference between an Entrepreneur and Agripreneur. But I still like the term Agripreneur :-). The Next Gen African Farmers are entrepreneurial farmers. Entrepreneurial farmers are people who are able to create […]
Just so you know 4 new firms per 1,000 people are launched per year in industrialised countries, 1 in Latin America and the Caribbean and fewer than 0.6 in sub-Saharan Africa 80% of small business start-ups fail within 2 years of launching 87% of entrepreneurs who have received incubator support stay in business What does […]
I was listening to one of the local radio stations this morning and they mentioned an interesting fact. They said that a London-based research team has forecasted that in the next 40 to 42 year, Nigeria‘s oil reserves will have dried up. There was an article I read which was written in 2011 that stated […]
Poultry is one of the 3 value chains the project focuses on. We headed down to one of the biggest poultry farms in Lagos. An employee of the farm estimated that they produce about 8000 crates of egg a day and still the supply does not meet the demand. It sounds a bit contradictory because […]
Every once in a while we receive guests either from the World Bank or the Project Head office that like to see first hand what is going on in the farms and hear what our beneficiaries have to say. On this particular trip we had a consultant representing the Head Office. He wanted to visit […]
According to the World Bank, growth in the agriculture sector is 2.5 times as effective at reducing poverty as growth in any other sector. According to the World Bank Agriculture is essential for sub-Saharan Africa’s growth and for achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015. Agriculture employs 65 – 70% of Africa’s […]
The CADP Project is now in its 4th year and it was imperative that the project team and all stakeholders sat down together to discuss the progress so far and more importantly the future direction of the project. This bi-monthly meeting was of particular importance as it will mark the beginning of change. During the […]
Fully kitted in my NYSC uniform It was the photographer that told me to pose that way and he INSISTED, so I had no choice :-)…maybe I did?! I put the picture up cos it kinda tells the story :-)….moving along… After I launched my blog I was off to camp for my NYSC. In […]
One of the key elements within any project is monitoring and evaluation. This allows us to know if the objective of the project is being met and if there is any significant impact. In order to gather the necessary information we administer questionnaires to beneficiaries of the project. Below are pictures of a visit to […]
