The Inclusive Business Action Network (iBAN) is a global initiative supporting the scaling and replication of inclusive business models. Through its strategic pillars iBAN blue and iBAN weave, iBAN manages an innovative online knowledge platform on i...
Welcome to the AGRIBUSINESS CHAT with Jinmi Ajayi. He shares insightful conversations with agribusiness experts and stakeholders, discusses and analyzes various value chains from poultry, piggery, fishery processing, exportation, to security, transpo...
In aquaculture: Women and men are involved in all nodes of the aquaculture value chain (Veliu etal., 2009), but the value chain activities are highly gendered. Women are more involved in post-harvest activities, while men tend to dominate in sh farm...
Over the years, venture capital has become an indispensable source of funding for startups and young businesses. Venture capital firms fund and mentor startups or young businesses that have long-term growth potentials. In Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya a...
This study challenges the common narrative that small farms (<20ha) produce most of the food consumed in low- and middle-income countries. The researchers found 72% of the world’s 560 million small farms are less than one hectare, and very small-scal...
The Roundtable identified 5 key themes to drive our objective of “Harnessing Technology and Innovation to Close the Talent Gap in the Nigerian Agriculture Sector”
There is a vast, untapped potential in Ethiopia’s agricultural sector, as well as considerable challenges around environmental sustainability and the need to create more jobs. The main question posed by O-Farms is: how can Ethiopia sustainably feed a...
This book will convince the reader to care about fruit and vegetables and to see that the small-scale production of these crops is fundamental to achieving sustainable development goals. In five chapters, the reader will learn about the challenges an...
The highly anticipated UN World Food Summit ended with an announcement of new coalitions to increase healthy diets from sustainable food systems. The headlines for Africa coming out of the summit are all too familiar — the continent faces mass starva...
Nigerian dried fruit snacks producer ReelFruit recently raised $3 million in series A funding from investors Alitheia IDF, Samata Capital and Flying Doctor Healthcare Investment Company. The capital will go towards building new processing facilities...
On March 9th, 2021, the African business landscape was buzzing with excitement and optimism in reaction to the news that Flutterwave, a payments company, had closed its Series C fundraising round at $170 million[1], valuing the company at over $1 b...
This research paper analyses the emerging patterns, determinants and examines the policy implication of processed food export in Nigeria from 1995 to 2014 as potential for reducing large post-harvest losses, increase in processed food export, employm...