Under aquaculture, PIND’s strategy remains facilitating aquaculture service providers (ASPs) to make a business out of selling services to new and existing fish farmers on business skills and best pond management practices.
Smallholder farmers’ businesses tend to fall below their profit potentials because of poor agronomic practices and lack of access to new technologies and market.
We are excited to announce that our Executive Director, Dara Akala, will join 13 other global development leaders on the judging panel for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) 2018 Solve Challenge. One of this year’s challenges focuses on proffering solutions for coastal communities to mitigate and adapt to climate change as they develop and…
We attended the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG)’s ‘Low Carbon Investment Opportunities in Nigeria’ workshop in Lagos on April 13, 2018, to share how our economic development programs and empirical data contribute to expanding growth in the Niger Delta, with examples taken from the palm oil, cassava and aquaculture value chain projects.
Following invitation by the State Government, we attended the Imo State Business summit on April 27, 2018, at the Imo State Trade and Investment Center in New Owerri. The event also served as the official launch of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Policy in the State.
To commemorate the 2018 World Water Day Celebration, the Foundation partnered with Rotary Clubs of Districts 9141 and 9142 of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State and Procter & Gamble (P&G) International on March 22, 2018, for a public enlightenment event hosted at the Universal Primary Education (UPE) Model Primary School and Township Primary School, Ovom, Yenagoa,…
On March 23 – 24, we were on a panel at the 9th Annual Harvard Development Conference held at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA, to discuss innovative business models for delivering energy to underserved communities and ways of influencing government policies toward energy efficiency in the continent. The African Development Conference (ADC) has over the…
From Left to Right: Ene Obi, ActionAid Nigeria's Country Director, Professor Joy Ezeilo, Executive Director of Women's Aid Collective and Bose Eitokpah, PIND's Capacity Building Manager at the 62nd United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York. We attended the 62nd session of Commission on the Status of Women (#CSW62) which…
[unitegallery IWD2018] As part of activities to mark this year’s International Women’s Day, PIND held a media advocacy outreach meeting in Ngor Okpala Community of Imo State on March 6 to showcase the contributions of women farmers to the rural economy and draw attention to the constraints limiting them from maximizing the immense opportunities in…
In what may be a first, the highest production cost for fish farmers is not electric power supply but fish feed, which accounts for up to 70% of the total cost of farmed fish production in Nigeria.