Our Palm Oil team has been hard at work these past few years, promoting the use of the Mechanical Adjustable Harvester and the Malaysian Knife. Technology has been a huge challenge to farmers across all agricultural sectors.
PIND and the DFID-funded Market Development Program in the Niger Delta (MADE) collaborated to produce a report on the impact on the recent naira devaluation and import tariffs on agriculture in the Niger Delta.
As part of this event, the Brazil-Africa Institute in collaboration with IITA and AfDB will also sponsor 30 youth to be trained in Brazil this year
PIND Market Development Officer for Cassava Faith Soya has been traversing the region in her work to expand the use of cassava farming best practices promoted as part of the demonstration plot intervention. Here, she makes observations on the work done so far and shares her hopes for the direction of the project in months…
We did a World Earth Day event on the 24 April, 2017, at our Appropriate Technology Enabled Development (ATED) Center on the premises of our Economic Development Center in Warri, Delta State. It was a day full of interesting discussions with educationists, climate change activists, agriculturalists, students, and everyone in between. In this post, Florence…
The media has a role to play in raising public awareness on development, stability and growth in the region. This is why our Capacity and Peace building teams collaborated with the Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme (NSRP) to organize a 3-day training on ‘Conflict and Gender Sensitive Reporting’
(For fish and chickens anyway) Anyone who does livestock or fish farming will tell you that one major driver in the cost of fish and chicken in markets across Nigeria is the cost of…
On 8 March, 2017, in a short ceremony at the National Stadium in Surulere, Lagos State, our Partners 4 Peace (P4P) team gave renowned Nigerian Musician Dr. Tee Mac Iseli (MFR) an award for his peace building advocacy in the Niger Delta and made him a P4P Brand Ambassador.
The International Women’s Day (IWD) is a day set aside the world over to celebrate women and their contributions to humanity. This year’s occasion titled ‘Pledge for Parity’ was geared to celebrate women farmers and discuss how women could achieve economic parity through agriculture. This theme is important to us because it deeply aligned with…
Our ICT/Social Media Training workshop for CSOs in the Niger Delta was aimed at enhancing the knowledge and skills of civil society organizations in resource mobilization and fundraising using a powerful tool advocacy and development. This program, which took place from the 10th -14th October, 2016, at our Economic Development Centre in Port Harcourt, Rivers…
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