SAA-Nigeria Achieves Remarkable Milestones in 2023
In 2023, SAA-Nigeria embarked on a comprehensive mission aimed at elevating its impact on multiple fronts. The organization’s strategic pillars encompass sustaining and amplifying impact at the grassroots level, enhancing the visibility of its initiatives, securing additional resources, cultivating new partnerships, and fortifying existing ones, alongside advancing its capacity-building endeavours.
SAA teams, partners meet in collective review session for alignment of plans in Nigeria
On May 23-24, 2023, SAA Nigeria’s technical team joined the States and Zonal Coordinators in Zombe State for a quarterly review meeting, where SAA presented activities carried out in the preceding quarter, and its plans for the next one. This was followed by presentations by State Coordinators, paving the way for in-depth review of interventions.
SAA, Japan Embassy renew commitment to support Nigeria’s agricultural sector transformation
The Embassy of Japan in Nigeria and SAA-Nigeria have reiterated their commitment to strengthen their joint effort in helping the country to transform its agricultural sector. The two institutions made the assurance during a courtesy visit by the SAA’s Country Director, Dr Godwin Atser, to Japan’s Embassy in Abuja
Farmer organization groups from Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe trained in Japan
The Deputy Country Director SAA-Nigeria, Dr Abdulhamid Gambo, visited Japan from February 3 -22, 2023 for the training program titled, ‘2022 Human Resource Development for Establishment of Food Value Chain’
Annual Stakeholder Meetings held with SAA partners in Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria and Uganda
During the first quarter of 2023, SAA has successfully organized annual stakeholders’ meetings across its four focus countries
Shifting farmers’ mindsets from ‘Grow-and-Sell’ to ‘Grow-to-Sell’
SAA in partnership with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), promotes the Smallholder farmer Horticulture Empowerment Program (SHEP) to empower smallholder farmers in pursuing the market-oriented farming of horticultural crops
Composting technology for improved soil fertility, amidst rising fertilizer prices
Due to the rising cost of inorganic fertilizers, as a result of the Russia-Ukraine war, Nigerian farmers are turning to compost manure to reclaim soils degraded by poor agronomic choices
Empowering people with disabilities
In Nigeria and several other African countries, many People with Disabilities (PwDs) are resource-constrained, with some resort to begging for alms on the streets. In 2018, SAA-Nigeria initiated a program to empower PwDs, in the Tudun Wada community of Kano state, northwest Nigeria
New technology helps farmers improve onion shelf life
Due to postharvest losses, related to gaps in the proper storage of produce, Nigeria loses as much as 50 percent of its onion harvests…
Improving livelihoods through rice value chain investments
With the large volume of paddy produced in Kano state, SAA-Nigeria is enriching the lives of small-scale processors, by building the capacity of rice value chain actors…
