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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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  • Derivative product revenue is the only honest framework.

    CORRIDOR DOCTRINE · 04 The first time we started engaging export markets to sell Moringa and other superfoods, I understood something that no spreadsheet had taught me. The buyers set the price. I had no leverage, no alternative, and no time. The crop was perishable. They knew that. I knew that. The negotiations lasted months,…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • How to develop a framework for an Integrated Agro Industrial Park (IAIP).

    An integrated agro-industrial corridor is not a trading operation, a farming collective, or a logistics company. It’s a vertically integrated system where production, processing, and export are architecturally synchronised. That distinction matters because the architecture is what determines whether the system works. This paper describes what that system looks like operationally, why each component is…

THE THINKING OF FOOD SYSTEMS