The CBN widens its Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme with bank risk-sharing and more commodities to de-risk lenders and unlock farm credit in Nigeria.
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Farming
Soil Labs: Nigeria Plans a National Network of Soil-Testing Laboratories
Nigeria plans a national network of soil-testing labs under an IITA MoU, with trained extension officers and a soil-health database to lift farm yields.
Back-to-Farm: Shettima Pitches Farming as a Security Strategy at Davos
At Davos 2026 VP Shettima pitched Nigeria’s Back-to-Farm initiative, framing inputs and credit for displaced farmers as a food-security and stability strategy.
Soil Health: Nigeria and IITA Sign a Data-Driven Fertilizer Pact
Nigeria’s agriculture ministry and IITA signed an MoU for a national soil-health scheme with data-driven fertiliser advice and soil-testing labs to lift yields.
Diamba Sud gold project in Senegal — asset and corridor map for founders and investors
Diamba Sud’s near-$400m mine is a decade-long food buyer on the doorstep; whether Senegal’s farmers capture it hinges on aggregation, storage and rural finance.
Farm to factory: Chinese agribusiness and Africa’s missing middle
Chinese firms in African agriculture are pitched as a farm-to-processing story, yet most of the recorded investment still sits at the farm gate, where the value chain is thinnest.
Agricultural training: A yield story wearing a diplomatic suit
The training programmes are read as diplomacy, but the figures that matter are agronomic, and a farmer measures the result in tonnes per hectare, not in communiques.
Demonstration centres: Where China’s agronomy meets Africa’s yield gap
The centres are presented as platforms for productivity, yet a demonstration plot and a smallholder field are not the same place, and the distance between them is where the real story sits.
A tropical agriculture centre: research as the slow infrastructure of trade
China is building a centre for tropical agricultural science with Africa. Laboratories rarely make news, but the seeds and methods they produce may outlast any single trade deal.