OPERATION SPICY GREEN
🌿 Driving the Herbs and Spices Sector in Nigeria
Green Sahara has played a vital role in stimulating the commercialization of herbs and spices across Nigeria. Our goal is to catalyze value addition and reduce reliance on imports, fostering local economic growth.
🌱 Holistic Value Chain Development & Impact
Green Sahara is committed to developing a comprehensive value chain, aiming to improve participation of women and youth. Our initiatives focus on increasing access to inputs, credit, and structured, premium markets.
A key example is our partnership with Tiger Foods, which helps facilitate offtake agreements, supporting approximately 30% import substitution and promoting capital retention within local markets.
🌟 Focus on Profitable Cultivation
Our efforts emphasize cultivating spices and herbs that are:
- Economically viable
- Highly marketable
- Profitable
GREEN GRAIN GAINS
🌾 Cereal and Grain Zones for Trade and Supply
We have established dedicated zones for various cereals and grains, enabling both local and international trade and supplies on a large scale.
🌱 Focus on Key Value Chains
Our work focuses on specific value chains, including soybeans, maize, sorghum, millet, and cowpeas. We coordinate activities across all stages:
- Primary production
- Secondary processing
- Tertiary support services
This integrated approach helps optimize the entire value chain.
🤝 Partnerships and Collaboration
Green Sahara has collaborated with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and numerous other partners to support food security initiatives.
🚀 Boosting Productivity in the Private Sector
Our efforts aim to improve productivity within private organizations by streamlining and adding value to the cereal and grain segments. The goal is to enhance efficiency and support sustainable production, processing, and market expansion.
🌍 Contributing to Food Security in Africa
This segment is a vital part of Green Sahara's strategy to promote sustainable growth, market development, and export enhancement, ultimately contributing to a food-secure Africa.
🌟 Supporting Value Addition and Export Markets
Green Sahara actively works with various production clusters and trading networks to facilitate value addition and expand export markets.
GREEN TREE THRIFT
🌳 The Green Tree Thrift: A Holistic Approach
Green Tree Thrift adopts a comprehensive, multi-dimensional strategy to provide goods and services in a balanced and sustainable way.
This initiative champions agroforestry as a key model for achieving sustainable development, creating positive ripple effects across various sectors.
🌱 Promoting Reforestation and Sustainable Growth
While tree planting helps combat land degradation and deforestation, Green Sahara partners with Reforest'Action to maximize the benefits of trees for people and the environment.
Our approach focuses on increasing the positive impacts of trees through strategic planting and conservation efforts.
💼 Social and Environmental Benefits
- Social: Trees support livelihoods, generate income, and create jobs.
- Environmental: Trees provide vital services such as carbon sequestration, water conservation, soil health, and biodiversity preservation.
🌍 Community Engagement & Biodiversity Conservation
Green Tree Thrift encourages community participation, promoting tree propagation and agroforestry practices. The goal is to improve local livelihoods while conserving biodiversity.
GREEN ROOTS RESCUE
🌱 Strengthening the Tubers Value Chain to Boost Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cassava has made significant strides in value addition, commercialization, and positively impacting households and rural economies across the region.
🤝 Collaborating for Agro-Industrial Development
Green Sahara partners with key stakeholders in the cassava value chain to promote agro-industrial growth. Our focus is on leveraging cassava to drive socio-economic development and improve food security.
🌾 Boosting Local Roots and Tubers
We implement strategic interventions aimed at increasing the productivity of local roots and tubers. These efforts are designed to scale up socio-cultural benefits and strengthen the value chain as a strategic response to food insecurity.
🌍 Maximizing Impact
Our initiatives aim to generate positive economic, social, and environmental outcomes, ensuring sustainable growth and resilience in rural communities.
AGRI-GREEN VALUE CHAINS
🌱 Agri-Green Value Chains
This initiative focuses on developing sustainable value chains to enhance productivity and create a positive global impact.
Green Sahara aims to streamline and integrate its various value chain interventions, optimizing the functions across all operational elements to maximize value and impact.
🌍 Driving Sustainability and Circularity
By adopting green agricultural practices, the initiative aligns with ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) principles and promotes circular economy models across different commodity chains.
We also emphasize building traceability systems and programming, helping to identify areas for improvement or necessary modifications to ensure sustainable and responsible practices.