Building back the Nigerian groundnuts pyramids

About the partnership

Nigeria

Staple Crops

This partnership aims to increase and locally source higher volumes of aflatoxin free groundnut from smallholder farmers, through improving productivity and agronomic practices, which is required for the further production of highly nutritious and affordable groundnut based products for BoP consumers in Nigeria. Business champion L&L faces challenges in term of the cost of production involved in non-processing activities like dehulling and grading, which, when undertaken professionally by intermediary companies, are activities that can create more jobs and also drive the down cost of dehulled and graded groundnuts, leading to better and affordable products for BoP consumers. L&L also intends to work with more women and youth who dominate the informal retail market, to deepen the last mile distribution of newly developed products in BoP markets.

About the business champion

L&L Nigeria Limited is a small-scale processing company. L&L currently processes groundnuts into well packaged and branded snacks - Mr. Ekpa (www.mrekpa.com), targeting consumers in the peri-urban and urban areas. L&L was founded in 2014 by Ladipo Lawani, a young entrepreneur who sought to harness the value in the local production and consumption of groundnut. Ladi was recognized by Forbes In 2018 as one Africa's under 30 young and promising entrepreneurs, not for only his exploits In developing a commercially viable enterprise In the groundnut sector, but also for his ambition of bringing back the groundnut pyramids and ensuring that the groundnuts are aflatoxin free.

Key interventions

Deepening the production of aflatoxin safe groundnuts by training smallholder farmers on good agricultural practices

Creating more entrepreneurial activity in processing activities such as dehulling and grading

Develop new groundnut based products for BoP consumers

Improve the marketing & distribution of groundnut based products for BoP consumers

4,000 smallholder farmers involved

210 micro-small and medium enterprises involved

TBD

€ 200,000 private sector co-investment

30,000 BoP consumers with better access to nutritious food

Get in touch

Curious about this partnership? Get in touch with the partnership facilitator.

E-mail Adeshina Salaudeen

Partnership Facilitator

	Adeshina Salaudeen
	asalaudeen@2scale.org

Project partners

Kwara Agro Mall

Is a local organization working with farmers to provide access to agricultural inputs and services.

International Institute for Tropical Agriculture

Capacity building and research organization, through its Aflasave initative working on lowering the levels of aflatoxin in the production of groundnuts

ICRISAT

International research organization implementing projects and research to improve the production of crops in semi-arid areas