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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.

Category: Food Security & Policy

  • How to incentivize in a farming organization.

    CORRIDOR DOCTRINE · 06 Early in our work, we hired an operator to manage a processing trial. Good contract. Clear deliverables. Penalty clauses. The kind of agreement that looks airtight on paper. Within six months, the operator was optimising for throughput volume because that is what the contract incentivised. Quality suffered. Maintenance was deferred. The…

  • On the relationship between Conflict and Food Security.

    I started in Agriculture because I wondered what better way to help people is there, than dignity? How can people lower in the pyramid make better decisions? What I found was that there is a remarkable correlation between hunger and conflict… Every capital allocator who has looked at African agriculture in the past decade has…

  • Farmers do, what Farmers are. Farming.

    … I’m a Farmer… I know how farmers are. We are producers, we’re not sales people. Our job is to create food with nature. What happens afterwards usually… we just expect the best to happen after harvest. Most agricultural investment in Africa begins with the same question: what can this land produce? The soil is…

  • An ecosystem problem that involves food; Food Security

    Every major food security initiative of the last three decades has started at the farm gate, and most of them have stayed there. The result is a continent that produces more grain than ever and loses more of it than ever.

THE THINKING OF FOOD SYSTEMS