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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: Thesis

  • 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.

  • 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