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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.

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  • Storage. The right entry point for the Corridor creation.

    DOCTRINE · 05 I have seen grain rot. Not in photographs. Not in reports. Standing in a warehouse in the Volta Region with a crop that was worth something three weeks earlier and was worth almost nothing by the time I was looking at it… Five months of farming reduced to lowest possible sale prices…

  • 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…

  • Creating models that don’t become white elephants.

    Economic corridors are security architecture. I want to be precise about that. Not “important infrastructure.” Not “development investment.” Security architecture. The kind that nation-states need to function without being held hostage to a single geography, a single origin, a single season. The missing piece in African infrastructure investment isn’t productive capacity. West Africa has that.…

THE THINKING OF FOOD SYSTEMS