Our Work

A nationally coordinated early-warning and response architecture that integrates AI enabled analytics, security intelligence, climate and market signals to anticipate food supply shocks and trigger rapid, pre-emptive interventions. The system treats food security as a core national security concern, linking agricultural risk surveillance with Nigeria’s broader security infrastructure.

• Office of the National Security Advisor

Repositioning the Strategic Grain Reserve from a passive emergency stock pile into an active price-stabilization and market-balancing instrument, anchored on shared responsibility across tiers of government. There form framework as signs reserve targets of 5% at the federal level and 10% at the state level, enabling coordinated procurement, release, and replenishment aligned with seasonal market dynamics.

• Federal Ministry of Agriculture Food Security
• Sub-nationals

Nigeria’s flagship “living laboratory” for agricultural transformation, where farmers, researchers, financiers, and Agri-tech providers converge to test machinery, compare seed varieties, evaluate climate-smart innovations, and close commercial deals in real time. The show bridges the gap between innovation and adoption by moving technology directly into farmers’ hands.

• Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security

AGROW (Sustainable Agricultural Value-Chains for Growth) is a bold, US$500 million World Bank–supported, performance-based programme that catalyzes private investment in priority agricultural value chains by strengthening sub-national delivery systems, market linkages, and enabling infrastructure.

• Federal and subnational governments

A US$1.1 billion flagship agricultural modernization initiative targeting mid-sized commercial farmers as the bridge between subsistence and industrial-scale production. The program upgrades 774 progressive farms using Brazilian technology, supported by six regional equipment hubs, tailored capacity building, and technology transfer to improve productivity, quality, and commercial viability.

• Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security and Sub-nationals Governments

A strategic industrial policy reform that promotes domestic processing of agricultural commodities by setting minimum value-addition thresholds, with shea deployed as a pilot to stimulate local agro-processing capacity.

• The Raw Materials Research and Development Council
• Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade & Investment (FMITI)

A data-driven, whole-of government coordination framework that aligns all three tiers of government around an optimal national food balance-grow what thrives, trade what pays, keep reserves ready, and protect against market distortions to guide production, trade, and reserve decisions.

• The National Council on Agriculture and Food Security (NCAFS)

A nation wide grassroots engagement platform that mobilizes farmers, communities, and local institutions through dialogue, outreach, and feedback to strengthen ownership of food systems reforms.

• PFSCU and Sub-national Governments