Food Price News & Market Intelligence
Real-time food price analysis, agricultural market updates, and inflation tracking across Nigeria and Africa.
Harvest Cools Food Inflation to 19.57%
Nigeria's food inflation fell to 19.57% in August, its first drop in six months, as the main harvest began easing supply pressures. Month-on-month food price …
Benue Signs a $250m Food City Deal
Benue has signed a $250 million agreement to build a 30,000-hectare National Food City Complex meant to turn the Food Basket of the Nation into …
Olam Moves Into Nigeria's Cattle Feed
Olam Agri has launched a range of cattle and dairy feed in Nigeria, its first move into ruminant nutrition in a market long dominated by …
Inputs on Credit Reach 88,000 Farmers
A social enterprise has delivered thousands of tonnes of seeds and fertiliser on credit to 88,000 smallholder farmers across four states, letting them enrol with …
Anambra Opens a Root-Crop Flour Plant
Anambra has commissioned a new factory that turns cassava, yam and potato into organic flour for local shelves and export. Backers say the plant will …
Nigeria's Yams Rarely Cross the Border
Nigeria grows most of the world's yams, harvesting tens of millions of tonnes a year, yet it captures only a sliver of the fast-growing global …
Bambara Nut, the Legume Nigeria Overlooks
Nigeria is Africa's biggest grower of bambara groundnut, a hardy, protein-rich legume often called a complete food. Yet the crop is neglected, held back by …
Ewedu Grows Into a Cash Crop
The leafy green behind Nigeria's ewedu soup is fast becoming one of the country's most profitable small crops. It matures in weeks, sells year-round, and …
A Seed Fix for Nigeria's Rice
Nigeria's rice farmers lose up to half their potential yield to poor seed. A new Community Rice Seed Production Project, led by the NCRI Badeggi …
Cutting the Cost Between Farm and Plate
As the harvest nears, Nigeria's food-systems unit met to move food more cheaply from farm to plate. Officials weighed how transport, logistics and levies inflate …
A Harvest That Bypasses the Northeast
Even as the main harvest approaches, FEWS NET warns that conflict and high food prices are keeping parts of Borno in Emergency-level hunger. Cut off …
Plateau Maps Out Its Food Future
Plateau State has launched a Strategic Food Security Plan built with farming communities, pairing a roadmap for agriculture with an early-warning system. The plan puts …