Food Price News & Market Intelligence
Real-time food price analysis, agricultural market updates, and inflation tracking across Nigeria and Africa.
Nigeria's $296bn Ocean Prize Goes Begging
Nigeria could unlock a blue economy worth up to $296 billion, yet weak funding and policy gaps are leaving the opportunity on the table. Fisheries …
Nigeria Misses China's Duty-Free Window
China threw open its market to African exporters with a sweeping zero-tariff policy, yet Nigeria was absent from the first wave of duty-free shipments. Analysts …
Swine Fever Empties Plateau's Pig Pens
An outbreak of African Swine Fever has torn through Plateau State, killing thousands of pigs, shutting hundreds of farms and crashing pork prices to below …
Research: Where War Doubles the Price of Food, and Where It Does Not
Sudan pays 5.5 times what its neighbours pay for the same staples. Yemen pays 4.9 times. But six other conflict countries in the same data …
Nigeria Grows the World's Kola, Sells Little
Nigeria grows more kola nut than any other country and chews most of it at home, but sells almost none abroad. While it dominates production, …
Nigeria Owns the Goats, Imports the Meat
Nigeria keeps the largest goat and sheep herd in Africa, more than 70 million goats, yet still imports much of the meat it eats. Weak …
Africa's Pork Leader Battles Swine Fever
Nigeria is Africa's biggest pork producer, turning out more than 300,000 tonnes a year from a herd of over eight million pigs. Yet African Swine …
What ₦10,000 of Food Bought in 2020, and What It Buys Today
In 2020 a basket of rice, beans, garri and oil cost ₦5,111 in Lagos, so ₦10,000 bought nearly two of them. That same basket now …
Nigeria Eyes Solar Panels Over Its Crops
Nigeria could power its future and feed itself from the same land. New research shows that placing solar panels over farms, a practice called agrivoltaics, …
The Ukraine War Reached Your Kitchen. It Did Not Get There Alone.
Retail wheat flour jumped 17.7 index points the month Russia invaded, and the median country paid 26% more by its 2022 peak. But cassava, a …
Did Nigeria's Local Rice Policy Work?
Imported rice cost 6% more than local rice in 2015. By 2026 it cost 62% more, and in dollars local rice fell 29% while imported …
Nigeria's Food Prices Rose 907% in Naira Since 2015 but Fell in Dollars
World Food Programme data for 2015 to 2026 shows yam up 907% in naira but just 45% in dollars, and for eight of thirteen staples …