The Block Farm Model: Confronting the Challenge of Supply Chain Management in Africa
A major challenge facing industrial agribusiness development within the African context is the inability of SMEs to establish inclusive and sustainable mechanisms for consistent sourcing of raw materials in the…
Since 2018, IDH Cassava Program has transformed the industrial cassava sector in Nigeria as a prototype for Africa through market transformation and improvement in business practices, helping industrial processing factories…
Report: From Zero to Hero – Transforming the HQCF Sector in Nigeria
Due to favorable government policies and incentives, in the last two decades, Nigeria entrepreneurs invested heavily in the High-Quality Cassava Flour (HQCF) sector of the cassava value chain but the…
Yieldwise: Hear from Oladolem Nasir, cassava farmer
Oladolem Nasir is the chairperson of the Psaltry Outgrowers’ Association, made up of 3,000 farmers who produce cassava for processing at Psaltry International.
YieldWise: Repairing Fractured Systems for Farmers
IDH partnered with the Rockefeller Foundation’s YieldWise Initiative, which seeks to reduce post-harvest loss by at least 50% in various food value chains in Africa and to increase the incomes…
SDM Case Study: Arog Bio Allied Agro Services Ltd (ABAAS), Nigeria
Arog Bio Allied Agro Services Limited (ABAAS), founded in 2009 in Ekiti state, is an integrated cassava starch and derivatives manufacturing company. They source cassava tubers both from block farmers…
FMS Farms, established in 2009 to pursue commercial agricultural opportunities in West Africa, currently consists of a vegetable farm, a cassava plantation farm with outgrower model and poultry farming located…
Niji Foods is one of Nigeria’s leading cassava processors The SDM is designed as a block farmer out grower program which seeks to meet the production needs of Niji Foods’…