Livestock production accounts for about 6% of Gross Domestic Product1. Chicken and small ruminants (sheep and goat) form an important economic and ecological function in the agricultural systems in most rural communities. They are mainly kept for immediate cash source especially when things go tough. They are a good source of meat, eggs, wool and…
A major constraint for small-scale poultry farmers in the rural areas of the Niger Delta is the periodic outbreak of Newcastle Disease (NCD) and other preventable diseases. Mortality rates due to these diseases is over 30% with an estimated loss of eight billion Naira per year. MADE identified that the prevalence of the diseases can…
Palm oil production in Nigeria is largely concentrated in the Niger Delta region, with smallholders accounting for about 80% of the production. Over a million smallholder plantation farmers, millers, processors, farm workers, wholesalers and retailers are involved in the sector. Local production has stagnated at a little less than a million metric tons since 2012,…
Nigeria boasts Africa’s largest economy by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and at close to 200 million people hosts the largest population in Africa. However, at close to 90 million people, Nigeria also has more citizens living in extreme poverty than any other country in the World. Between 2000 and 2014, Nigeria delivered an annual average…
Market Development in Niger Delta (MADE) was a DFID funded programme which raised the incomes of 154,225 poor people, 50 per cent of whom were women, by at least 15 per cent between September 2013 and February 2018. MADE uses the “Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P)” approach to design systemic and sustainable interventions…
Genesis Analytics was commissioned by DAI to develop case studies for the Market Development in the Niger Delta (MADE) programme’s access to finance, agricultural inputs and gender interventions. The objective of the case studies was to chronicle the intervention story in detail – how the programme explored the entry points, failed pilots, non-attractive value propositions,…