Critical issues around the food and energy security plaguing Africa dominated discourse at the Food and Energy Security Conference in Lagos hosted by White & Case LLP in collaboration with the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, AFREXIM, and African Finance Corporation.
Carbon Assets Nigeria Limited has signed an MOU with Jigawa State for a project that will span 32,000 hectares, plant over 4 million trees, and generate $48 million-$144 million in revenue from the sale of carbon credits.
Nigeria's Niger State has promised to make available 1.2 million hectares of land for use as the Federal Government secures a $2.5B livestock investment with Brazil's JBS, one of the world’s largest meat processing enterprises.
Agbeyewa Farms, a subsidiary of Cavista Holding, says its farm in Ekiti State is currently harvesting about 380 hectares but intends to expand to 10,000 ha.
The Nasarawa State Government has commenced the harvest of its 2,000 hectares rice farm in Jangwa village of Awe Local Government Area, as part of the 10,000 hectares initially earmarked for its food security programme
“This land belongs to the peasant farmers of Kwatan-Taru, Natirde, Dinyawo, Wurbo, Kyari and Sindride, whose forefathers have been farming for hundreds of years."
Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago of Niger state, Nigeria signed a $684 million contract agreement with China Overseas Engineering Group Company Limited and China Railway Engineering Corporation that includes 50,000 hectares of land for a Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone.
The Governor of Nigeria's Nasarawa State says the implementation of the Framework for Responsible Investment in Land-Intensive Agriculture (FRILIA), part of a World Bank economic transformation agenda programme, will attract large-scale private agricultural investments.
"Les conflits fonciers et sociaux dans les plantations de palmiers à huile et d’hévéas de SIAT perdurent depuis trop longtemps et doivent être résolus."
"In Edo State, we have a huge farmland, and one of the new initiatives we put out there is piggery, and we have a strategy that we are rolling out, hoping that in the next eight months, we will be the largest pig farm in Nigeria."
The Federal High Court in Abuja has issued an order restraining the Nasarawa State government and security agencies from arresting farmers or interfering with their rights, pending the resolution of a legal dispute over the alleged forcible seizure of 10,000 hectares of farmland.
The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Owolabi Akinloye Olakulehin Ige Olakulehin 1 has said Ibadan has told investors that the city has arable land suitable for agricultural production.
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