Nadia Zeine is a food systems strategist and agricultural infrastructure architect. She is Managing Partner and CEO of Africa Private Development Corporation, ‘APDC’ Holdings, an agricultural project development company building integrated food systems across West Africa, with The Netherlands as a third operational anchor.
Her work in West African agriculture began with early-stage cash crop production in remote areas, followed by thirteen years building Volta Presentation Farms (2011 to 2024) for scaling, processing and exports. That combined operational foundation, spanning over fifteen years and 20+ crop varieties (cash crops, staples, high-value botanicals, aromatic herbs) across markets in West Africa, Europe, and the United States, now informs every design decision in the corridor architecture.
APDC Holdings designs integrated corridor systems, governs them, holds the institutional relationships, and raises the capital and partnerships to execute. APDC does not farm, process, or operate logistics. APDC builds the architecture that makes all three work as one system.
The flagship initiative is The GreenLine Corridor, a multi-country vertically integrated agro-industrial system. The first phase operates across Ghana, Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, and Senegal.
This publication, The Thinking of Food Systems, is where Nadia writes about the principles, failures, and design choices behind integrated agricultural corridors. The views expressed here are her own.
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