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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.

Tag: Memoir

  • 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…

  • Developing a system that actually closes the loop.

    It was 2023. I’d been running agricultural operations in Ghana for twelve years. The business worked. We had buyers, we had and to end systems, we had processing capability. But I was exhausted by the constant friction. Fiction mainly came as a gap between wanting to run as an institution that had workable systems, and…

  • 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