Author: Adewale Kupoluyi

Pig farmers in the Ikangba/Agoro axis of Odogbolu Local Government Area of Ogun State have lamented losses estimated at over N5billion following outbreaks of African Swine Fever, calling on the federal and state governments to provide compensation, soft loans and other forms of assistance to revive their businesses. The farmers, under the aegis of the Ikangba/Agoro Pig Farmers’ Association, made the appeal during a protest organised in conjunction with the Food and Farmers’ Rights Campaign in Ikangba Town. The farmers, during the protest, were armed with placards bearing various messages such as “President Bola Tinubu, Gov Dapo Abiodun, please come to our aid;…

Nigeria is working towards full membership of the Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries (,CPC), as it seeks to strengthen agricultural cooperation and trade relations with Indonesia.The Nigeria’s Charge d’Affaires ad interim, Eze Thomas,  disclosed this while speaking with Nigerian journalists at the Nigerian Embassy in Indonesia, describing the country’s efforts to deepen cooperation with the Southeast Asian nation.‎‎“Nigeria sooner or later will be joining CPC council of producing companies. It’s a great achievement we have made in this mission”, he said.‎In February, the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Nigeria had begun consultations to transition from observer status…

A member of the FarmingFarmersFarms (FFF) Farmers Medical Scheme, Dr. (Mrs.) Mary Adebayo, who works with Nawair-Ud-Deen Grammar School (Senior), Obantoko, Abeokuta, Ogun State, has emerged Nigeria’s Overall Best Teacher for 2026.Adebayo clinched the top honour at the Federal Government’s President’s Teachers’ and Schools’ Excellence Awards, held during the 2026 World Teachers’ Day celebration in Abuja. The award recognises outstanding teachers, school administrators, and schools across different categories.Adebayo won the Best Public Senior Secondary School Teacher category, from which she was selected as the overall best teacher in the country, and was rewarded with a brand-new car as star prize.Speaking while…

Have you also noticed how prices of everything in the grocery stores have been ticking up since the beginning of the year with no hint of stopping? Politicians, corporations, and pundits are quick to scapegoat the usual reasons for this “cost of living crisis” – inflation, geopolitical crisis, without taking a real look at, or responsibility for the policies and systems that caused them in the first place. But the reality is, we have been here before and the crisis we are experiencing, which is exactly what our industrial food system is designed to produce. To discuss the above and…

Agricultural law, also known as agriculture law; AG law and or agricultural and food law, is the specialised body of laws that governs the production, storage, processing, marketing, distribution, and sale of agricultural products, including food, grains, fruits, fiber, livestock, fish, crops, wildlife, and increasingly biofuels, which all entails different aspects of, and amounting to agribusiness. It applies to a wide range of legal principles, drawn from farming, processing, packaging, storage, transportation, branding, labelling, property, contract, environmental, fertilisers, soil science, labour, commercial, tort, construction, engineering, biochemical, biotechnology, genetics, breeding, water resources, biosecurity, compliance and regulatory laws, to the unique needs…

President Bola Tinubu has expressed his determination to ensure that more Nigerian farms feed our cities, supply factory inputs, and doing well in general. The President made the pledge during the address he delivered during the country’s 66th Independence Day national broadcast on October 1, 2026. According to Tinubu, the nation had endured through the efforts of the farmer, who rises before dawn to work his land, promising to build a country in which “the farmer can cultivate his land safely, produce more at lower cost, and earn a decent return for his labour. A Nigeria in which factories have…

A call has gone to Ugandan authorities to immediately drop criminal trespass charges against 11 environmental defenders known as the KCB11, who were allegedly arrested on April 23, 2025, after a Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) official led them into the basement of KCB Uganda’s Kampala headquarters under the pretext of arranging a meeting, Climate Rights International has said. In a press statement, the defenders were said to have gone to the bank to peacefully deliver a letter calling on it to end its financial support for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), but police and security personnel, not bank…

As Nigeria commemorates its 66th Independence Anniversary, the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), has congratulated the government and people of Nigeria and reaffirms its commitment to a prosperous, productive, and private-sector-led economy, while stressing the importance of boosting food production in the country.In a statement, made available to FarmingFarmersFarms, the President of LCCI, Engr. Leye Kupoluyi, observed that the independence anniversary provides an immense opportunity to reflect on the state of the nation’s economy and conditions confronting businesses, households, and investors, and recognises that the Federal Government’s economic reform programme had delivered encouraging signs of macroeconomic stabilisation. “Real…

The global economic conversation is still centered around Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and money. We consider both obsolete, as measures of whether people are actually secure. GDP can tell us how much economic activity took place. It cannot tell us whether the land became richer, whether fish stocks increased, whether a city gained another million kilograms of freely accessible food, or whether a family can eat without first earning money.This is no longer a fringe criticism of GDP. The World Bank itself says GDP does not capture the full range of productive activities supplied by nature, including nutritious food, clean…

All is set to host the fourth regional Women’s Climate Assembly (WCA), under the theme “Our lands, our voices: African women united for climate justice and reparations”. The landmark gathering unites women across West and Central Africa to strengthen their fight for climate justice rooted in ecofeminist resistance and the defence of the commons – land, forests, water, seeds and other resources collectively sustained and stewarded by communities. The assembly holds in Yaoundé, Cameroon, from October 5 to 8, 2026. In a press statement made available to FarmingFarmersFarms, the organisers noted that Africa’s contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions remains…