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Nigeria Cannot Solve its Food Crisis with Old Banking Models

Nigeria’s food crisis is often described as an agricultural challenge. Increasingly, it is something else: a test of whether the country can reinvent the financial systems that underpin food…

  • Nigeria faces food shortages and high food prices, straining households.
  • Only 6% of African farmers access formal credit, highlighting systemic gap.
  • Emerging tech and data-driven lending can improve agricultural finance.

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