By Tukeni Obasi On Thursday, September 20, 2012, over a hundred stakeholders in the agricultural sector convened in Abuja for a two-day workshop entitled “Achieving Youth Employment in Agriculture for Nagropreneurs”. This technical consultative workshop was held under the auspices of the...

By Tukeni Obasi When one hears of space technology, one probably immediately thinks of Neil Armstrong or The Star Wars. But recent developments in the field have shown just how beneficial space technology through remote sensing can be for agriculture. Perhaps the most common and widely known...

Poor farmers are not the problem to be solved. They are the solution.” This statement made by philanthropist and business magnate Bill Gates sums up a perennial conundrum in agricultural development: what is the main problem in agriculture, who are the victims and what are the solutions? For...

By Tukeni Obasi  Stawi Foods and Fruits is fast becoming a popular brand and important model on the African agriculture scene. Started in 2010 by 26-year-old Kenyan entrepreneur Eric Muthomi, Stawi Foods and Fruits is already a three-time award winning initiative. It won the Nature Challenge...

By Tukeni Obasi  Early in 2011, Harambe Nigeria awarded a grant to one of the winners of its business plan competition, Adesope Samuel, who had proposed to start up a bee farm for the purpose of selling honey. At the time, Adesope was ecstatic and ready to take the agribusiness world by...