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Building back the Nigerian groundnuts pyramids

Industry
  • Animal Production Related
  • Staple Crops
  • Soy and Oil Seeds
  • Fresh Produce
Country
  • Ethiopia
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Ghana
  • Kenya
  • Mali
  • Nigeria
  • Burkina Faso
  • Niger
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Industry
  • Animal Production Related
  • Staple Crops
  • Soy and Oil Seeds
  • Fresh Produce


Country
  • Ethiopia
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Ghana
  • Kenya
  • Mali
  • Nigeria
  • Burkina Faso
  • Niger

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. 

About the business champion
L&L Nigeria Limited is a small-scale processing company based in Lagos. L&L currently processes groundnuts into 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 was recognized by Forbes in 2018 as one Africa's under 30 young and promising entrepreneurs, amongst others for his ambition of bringing back the groundnut pyramids and ensuring that Nigerian groundnuts are aflatoxin free.
Key interventions
Scaling 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
Facilitate increased linkages between different groundnut value chain actors across Nigeria
Develop new groundnut based products for BoP consumers
Improve the marketing & distribution of groundnut based products for BoP consumers
4,000 smallholder farmers involved
200 micro-small and medium enterprises involved
80 producer organizations involved
€ 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 Maxwell Olitsa
Partnership Facilitator
Maxwell Olitsa
molitsa@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
ICRISAT
International research organization implementing projects and research on the production of crops in semi-arid areas
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