Sunday, October 19, 2025
29.8 C
Lagos

Business

Troyka Holdings Chair, Biodun Shobanjo, Inducted into Loeries Hall of Fame

Nigeria’s foremost advertising leader and Chairman of Troyka Holdings,...

Zenith Bank, NEM, Seplat, AIICO, Dangote Cement, First HoldCo Recognised as Nigeria’s High-Performing Companies

L-R:    Michael Ani, Manager, Investor Relations, Dangote Cement; Oluseyi...

Finance Min, Wale Edun, to Keynote FiBOP Annual Confab Oct 18

The Honourable Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of...

Niteon Unveils First African Manufacturers Bank to Unlock $200bn Digital Export Market

Niteon, one of Nigeria's largest digital export marketplaces, has...

FG Boosts MSME Financing with NCGC Initiative

In a bid to boost economic growth and development,...

ICT

Konga Partners Verve to Delight Customers with Free Shopping Vouchers

  Konga, Nigeria’s leading composite e-commerce platform has partnered with...

NCC Spotlights Renewable Energy on World Consumer Rights Day

  The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has concluded arrangements to...

Governors, NCC Set for Broadband Awareness Forum Oct 20

All Nigeria State Governors are set to discuss how...

VerveLife 5.0 Gears Up for Nairobi, Lagos Events

Following a successful series of Verve Life 5.0 satellite...

Telecom Infrastructure Critical to Successful 2023 Elections – Danbatta

The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission,...

Capital Market

SEC DG: Commission Considering Gradual Implementation of ISSB Standards

The Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission...

ISSB-Aligned Disclosures Will Lower Capital Costs, Attract Global Investors — SEC

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has unveiled plans...

SEC DG to Cadets:  Invest Early, Long Term to Create Wealth

Graduating Cadets of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) have...

SEC DG: Accountability, Transparency will Boost Investor Confidence in Capital Market

The Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission...

SEC DG: Digital Assets Represent $10tn Opportunity by 2030

The Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission...

Insurance

13-year-old Rhema-Love Abraham Emerges Winner of 2025 Heirs Insurance Essay Championship

L:R- Funmi Olotu, National Coordinator, National Social Safety-Nets Coordinating...

Leadway Assurance: Insurance Company of the Year at 2025 BAFI Awards

L-R: Managing Director, Leadway Assurance, Gboyega Lesi; Publisher, BuisnessDay...

Heirs Insurance Group Announces Inaugural Travel Festival: A Call for Inclusive Travel Ecosystem for Africans

Heirs Insurance Group (HIG), Nigeria’s fastest-growing insurance group, has...

Sovereign Trust Insurance Celebrates 2025 Customer Service Week

Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc has been actively involved in...

Leadway: 55 Years of Innovation, Expanding Financial Access, Inclusion Across West Africa

Leadway, one of Nigeria’s foremost non-banking financial services and...

Business

Troyka Holdings Chair, Biodun Shobanjo, Inducted into Loeries Hall of Fame

Nigeria’s foremost advertising leader and Chairman of Troyka Holdings,...

Zenith Bank, NEM, Seplat, AIICO, Dangote Cement, First HoldCo Recognised as Nigeria’s High-Performing Companies

L-R:    Michael Ani, Manager, Investor Relations, Dangote Cement; Oluseyi...

Finance Min, Wale Edun, to Keynote FiBOP Annual Confab Oct 18

The Honourable Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of...

Niteon Unveils First African Manufacturers Bank to Unlock $200bn Digital Export Market

Niteon, one of Nigeria's largest digital export marketplaces, has...

FG Boosts MSME Financing with NCGC Initiative

In a bid to boost economic growth and development,...

ICT

Konga Partners Verve to Delight Customers with Free Shopping Vouchers

  Konga, Nigeria’s leading composite e-commerce platform has partnered with...

NCC Spotlights Renewable Energy on World Consumer Rights Day

  The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has concluded arrangements to...

Governors, NCC Set for Broadband Awareness Forum Oct 20

All Nigeria State Governors are set to discuss how...

VerveLife 5.0 Gears Up for Nairobi, Lagos Events

Following a successful series of Verve Life 5.0 satellite...

Telecom Infrastructure Critical to Successful 2023 Elections – Danbatta

The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission,...

Capital Market

SEC DG: Commission Considering Gradual Implementation of ISSB Standards

The Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission...

ISSB-Aligned Disclosures Will Lower Capital Costs, Attract Global Investors — SEC

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has unveiled plans...

SEC DG to Cadets:  Invest Early, Long Term to Create Wealth

Graduating Cadets of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) have...

SEC DG: Accountability, Transparency will Boost Investor Confidence in Capital Market

The Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission...

SEC DG: Digital Assets Represent $10tn Opportunity by 2030

The Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission...

Insurance

13-year-old Rhema-Love Abraham Emerges Winner of 2025 Heirs Insurance Essay Championship

L:R- Funmi Olotu, National Coordinator, National Social Safety-Nets Coordinating...

Leadway Assurance: Insurance Company of the Year at 2025 BAFI Awards

L-R: Managing Director, Leadway Assurance, Gboyega Lesi; Publisher, BuisnessDay...

Heirs Insurance Group Announces Inaugural Travel Festival: A Call for Inclusive Travel Ecosystem for Africans

Heirs Insurance Group (HIG), Nigeria’s fastest-growing insurance group, has...

Sovereign Trust Insurance Celebrates 2025 Customer Service Week

Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc has been actively involved in...

Leadway: 55 Years of Innovation, Expanding Financial Access, Inclusion Across West Africa

Leadway, one of Nigeria’s foremost non-banking financial services and...

Olam Partners MIT Solve for Sustainable Food Systems Solutions

 

 

 

(L-R) Damilola Adeniyi, Corporate Affairs Manager, Olam Nigeria; Sharon Bort, Officer, Sustainability Community, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Solve; Mireille Wondia Yeo, Programme Associate, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, Olam International; Mukul Mathur, Country Head, Olam Nigeria; Julie Greene; Vice President, Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability, Olam International and Sarah Rawson, Social Sustainability Officer, Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability – Africa Region, Olam International at the Challenge Design Workshop, co-hosted by Olam International and MIT Solve in Lagos.

 

Olam International, a leading global agri-business, has partnered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Solve (MIT Solve) to design a Challenge aimed at addressing the issues around sustainable food systems in Nigeria. Olam International and MIT Solve co-hosted a Challenge Design Workshop which held in Lagos.

’MIT Solve is a hybrid business incubator and business ideas marketplace from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that advances solutions from tech entrepreneurs to address pressing global issues. MIT Solve connects innovators with resources such as expertise, human capital, technology, and funding’.

The workshop was designed to engage cross-sector stakeholders in Nigeria, to deliberate on issues affecting the country’s agri-business ecosystem and aid MIT in designing Solve’s 2020 Global Challenges. The event was also aimed at building connections amongst individuals and organisations with an interest in innovation, to address social and environmental challenges.

Addressing the audience on the rationale behind the event, Mukul Mathur, Country Head, Olam Nigeria said: “Olam started as a single-man, single product operation in Nigeria and we have managed to achieve massive growth over a 30-year period. However, we still face problems and we cannot fix these challenges alone. We realise the value of having an ecosystem which can help in proffering solutions, especially around sustainable food systems in Nigeria. It is important to have such an ecosystem of likeminded people. I know that together, we can fix these problems.”

Sharon Bort, Officer, Sustainability Community for MIT Solve, described the programme as an initiative of the MIT aimed at solving identified global challenges. According to her, the MIT Solve cycle which starts in February of each year initiates competitions in the areas of Economic Prosperity, Health, Learning and Sustainability. Bort added that MIT Solve decided to focus on challenges associated with food in an attempt to find solutions to issues around sustainable food systems.

According to Julie Greene, Vice President, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, Olam International, the rise in the world’s population presents an opportunity for players in the agricultural value chain with the rapid rate of urban migration resulting in mass movements away from farms where crops are harvested. She said: “For most part of history, people lived near their food sources, they grew their own food. Today over 50% of the population lives in the cities. This has huge implications because of the channels through which these food products are transported and stored. The bigger challenge is that it inhibits people from having a healthy diet.”

Ms. Green pointed out that agriculture also has its negative impacts, despite its positive effects. She said: “Agriculture and other land uses are responsible for a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions from fertilizers, deforestation and transportation. Agriculture is responsible for 70% of freshwater withdrawals. While these are critical to productivity, they also have polluting effects on the environment. We only grow enough food to feed the population, but the problem is that 1/3 of that food never actually reaches our plates due to food loss and waste. Therefore, the food system needs innovation and that is why we are here today to answer the question “what are the various opportunities for a sustainable food system?’”

Reji George, Vice President, Farming Initiatives, Olam Nigeria identified food loss and wastage amongst some of the challenges encountered in agribusiness. He said: “One third of the global food production is wasted; and this is estimated to be around 1.3 billion tonnes of food. If food losses can be improved upon, global food security, food systems and nutrition will also improve.”

He however added that Olam has commissioned surveys in some selected states in Nigeria, while also working with farmers to know the extent of losses incurred during harvest and find ways of reducing such losses.

 

 

Hot this week

13-year-old Rhema-Love Abraham Emerges Winner of 2025 Heirs Insurance Essay Championship

L:R- Funmi Olotu, National Coordinator, National Social Safety-Nets Coordinating...

Stanbic IBTC Bank, LOXEA BYD forge alliance for Electric Vehicle Financing

In a strategic move to advance Nigeria’s shift toward...

CBN, Bank of Angola Sign MoU on Technical Co-operation at IMF/World Bank Meeting

In an effort to enhance bilateral cooperation and technical...

NBS: Nigeria’s Inflation Falls to 18.02% in September, Lowest Level in Three Years

Nigeria’s headline inflation rate fell for the sixth consecutive...

NUPEMCO Marks 2025 CSW with Nationwide Pension Awareness Activities, Huawei-Supported National Essay competition

The Nigerian University Pension Management Company (NUPEMCO) celebrated the...

Topics

NAICOM Chief, Sunday Thomas, Elected President of OAISA

Mr. O. S. Thomas Commissioner for Insurance/CEO NAICOM The Commissioner for Insurance/CEO,...

Continental Re Appoints Kevin Kiambi Mworia to Lead its Kenya Subsidiary

L-R:  Mr. Lawrence Nazare, Group Managing Director, Continental Reinsurance...

Citi Bank Wins Lifetime Achievement Award at African Banker Awards

Winners of the 2017 African Banker Awards were announced...

Africa Telecom, Finance Leaders Assess Digital Investment Opportunities

Leaders from Africa's biggest telecom investment companies including MTN,...

Standard Alliance Insurance Demands N10bn Damages from NIA over Expulsion

Omotayo Awodiya Managing Director/CEO Standard Alliance Insurance Plc Standard Alliance Insurance Plc...

Stanbic IBTC Upgrades Infrastructure of Lagos Primary School

(L-R): Angela Omo - Dare, Head, Country Legal Services, Stanbic...
Exit mobile version