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Nadia Zeine

Nadia Zeine is a food systems strategist whose work sits at the intersection of agricultural infrastructure, development finance, and African economic architecture. She is the founder of APDC Holdings. Her writings outline the industrial, private sector driven systems towards agricultural investment models in Africa.

Author: Nadia Zeine

  • From selling aromatic herbs into the EU, to watching cash crops rot.

    I was selling dried aromatic herbs into the European market. Peppermint, spearmint, lemon balm, lemon, Verbena, chamomile… Yes, growing chamomile in Ghana. Varieties I’d chosen because European buyers wanted them, not because they were easiest to grow. The margins were extraordinary. The buyers were committed. We had contracts that specified price, volume, and quality. And…

  • Most Agro Industrial Parks Fail… what can be done about it?

    Most agricultural infrastructure projects fail not because of bad crops or bad markets — but because of bad architecture. After 15 years building Volta Presentation Farms, here’s what I learned about building systems that last.

THE THINKING OF FOOD SYSTEMS