SHINE Farm Training
The Leader Team SHINE Farm Training
It is 2025 and we have officially launched our first SHINE farm training! A training that empowers farmers and teaches innovative techniques to exponentially increase their farm's yield with just a little plot of land, thereby solving the problem of hunger and land ownership crisis in Nigeria. Our farm has employed over 30 women from the community and has five staff leading those farming activities.
The approach being taught is a holistic, biblical, character-based approach that relies on personal transformation to achieve lasting behaviour modification and results. Farmers learn to return to a circular economy as faithful stewards of nature that unlocks productivity, sustainability, and profitability.
Challenges Farmers Face in Nigeria
In Nigeria, when one thinks of a local farmer, the image that comes to mind is a poor farmer who works very hard year in year out but is still unable to comfortably provide for his/her family or build wealth through their work. A lot of the farmers do not have the knowledge and skills to plan for retirement. Some of the challenges local farmers face in Nigeria are:
Ethnic clashes due to farm disputes
Youths’ lack of interest in agriculture
Little or no support in promoting agricultural value chains from food production to processing, value addition, packaging, and market supply
Challenges in storage of farm produce
Inadequate support from the government
Lack of financial training for the farmers
Insecurity Threatens Nigeria’s Food Security
One of the biggest challenges farmers face in Nigeria is insecurity which continues to threaten food security in Nigeria. The United Nations (U.N) projects an increase of 7 million hungry people in Nigeria by August 2025.
The Northern region is responsible for much of Nigeria’s agricultural produce. According to reports by Nairametrics, between 2020 and 2024, at least 1,356 farmers were killed, with the majority of the fatalities occurring in Northern Nigeria. Additionally, bandits operating in rural areas have imposed illegal levies on farmers, collecting N139 million (roughly $86k US) in 2024 alone. Between 2020 and 2023, they demanded a total of N224 million (about $139.5k US) in farm levies, making it increasingly difficult for farmers to access their land. (This is a challenge when most full time jobs and subsistence farmers in Nigeria make well under the minimum wage of N70k ($45 US) monthly, this number replacing the previous rate of N30k monthly in July 2024.)
Nigeria’s Food Crisis
Nigeria is facing one of its most severe hunger crises, with an estimated 33 million people expected to experience food insecurity in 2025, a sharp rise from the previous year. The crisis is primarily driven by economic hardship, including high inflation, soaring food prices, and rising transportation costs, with insurgency in parts of Northern Nigeria as a leading factor.
A large majority of Nigerian farmers live in rural communities, with agriculture as their primary source of livelihood. They also produce a high percentage of the food consumed in the country.
The Leader Team’s Country Advisor, William and our staff David teaching the trainees
One of our staff, Hope leading a group of trainees on some practicals
Water Melon from the farm
The training we offer will help solve a lot of the problems Nigeria is currently facing. Some countries have adopted this technique and are experiencing amazing progress in agriculture and economic growth, which also contributes to a much broader progress in the country. Some of the benefits of the training includes; less soil erosion, efficient water management, improved bio-density and nutrition of the food, and increased biodiversity.
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