Food Price News & Market Intelligence
Real-time food price analysis, agricultural market updates, and inflation tracking across Nigeria and Africa.
Beans Defy Lagos's Cooling Food Prices
Beans rose for a second straight week in Lagos while almost everything else fell. Drum beans climbed 1.3% to a mean of ₦878 per derica …
A $1m Shield for Katsina's Farms
Katsina has launched a $1 million, 12-month project to protect farming communities from floods and drought. Run by Mercy Corps Nigeria, it will build soil …
Tomatoes Tumble 60% in Kano
A bumper harvest has crashed vegetable prices in Kano, with a small basket of tomatoes falling 60% from ₦10,000 to ₦4,000 in two weeks. Traders …
Ondo Takes Farming to All 203 Wards
Ondo State is taking agriculture to each of its 203 political wards, tailoring support to what every ward grows best. Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa says the …
A $4bn Food Import Alarm Rings in Lagos
Niger State Governor Mohammed Bago has warned that Nigeria's food import bill, already above $3 billion this year, could reach $4 billion before December. Speaking …
₦61bn in Credit, 100,000 Farmers Later
A long-running agricultural finance project has channelled ₦61 billion in credit to more than 100,000 farmers across 10 states over eight years, and left behind …
A Shaky Northern Harvest Clouds 2026
Nigeria's food outlook faces renewed pressure as the 2026 harvest nears, with reduced cultivation, insecurity, high input costs and erratic weather threatening the volume of …
A Harvest Lull Cools Lagos Food Prices
Fresh harvests are pulling down the price of plantain, potatoes and tomatoes across Lagos markets, easing pressure on shoppers as food inflation slows. The relief …
Nigeria Joins a Continental Livestock Pact
Nigeria has joined seven other African countries in a pledge to build regional livestock value chains, aiming to close a gap so wide that most …
Africa's Bank Pushes Farms Toward the Market
At the continent's biggest farming forum, the African Development Bank and African ministers argued that emergency food handouts have run their course, and that market-driven …
Nigeria Learns to Farm Without Soil
With harvests hostage to the rains, some Nigerian farms are growing food in water instead of soil. Controlled-environment ventures like Soilless Farm Lab produce vegetables …
Drones Take to Nigeria's Fields
Nigerian farms are turning to drones to spray crops, scout for pests and map fields, a shift agritech advocates say could raise yields on the …