Agriculture Daily Digest – November 17, 2025

Your daily Agriculture & Agribusiness digest 🌱. From crops to livestock, here are today’s top updates.

1. 🇳🇬 Ekiti, Bayero universities lead in submissions as Nigeria begins digitisation of students’ dissertations
2. 🇳🇬 Gates Foundation announces new commitment for smallholder farmers on frontlines of extreme weather
3. Nepal Development Update (November 2025) – World Bank Group
4. Projects & Operations – World Bank Group
5. 🇳🇬 Food and Agriculture — Home – allAfrica.com
6. 🇳🇬 Africa: What Will It Take to Make Africa Food Secure? G20 Group Points to Trade, Resilient Supply Chains and Sustainable Farming – allAfrica.com
7. 🇳🇬 Tantalizers signs five-year multimillion-dollar deal to export prawns, shrimps to US buyer – Nairametrics
8. 🇳🇬 Meet the powerful families behind Nigeria’s most iconic manufacturing brands – Nairametrics
9. Agtech Seedlings: Bonsai Robotics secures $15M to advance automated fruit harvesters
10. Farmland loans for regenerative agriculture: FBN and Walton family launch ‘first-of-its-kind’ lending program
11. USDA searched for terms like ‘diversity,’ ‘climate modeling’ to target grants for cancellation – Reuters
12. USDA data blackout fuels uncertainty ahead of upcoming crop report – Reuters
13. Gulke: Market Resets After USDA Data Dump – AgWeb
14. White House Drops Reciprocal Tariffs on Fertilizer, Other Ag Products Not Produced in the U.S. – AgWeb
15. USDA Lowers Corn and Soybean Production Estimates – Successful Farming
16. Sharp Decline in Grains | Friday, November 14, 2025 – Successful Farming
17. Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security 2025 “Digital solutions for reducing risks and impacts” Opening Statement – Food and Agriculture Organization
18. Disasters cost global agriculture $3.26 trillion over three decades, FAO report reveals – Food and Agriculture Organization
19. 🇳🇬 HOMEF, HEDA train journalists on industrial animal agriculture reporting – The Guardian Nigeria News
20. 🇳🇬 FarmFaTech 2025 opens in Abuja, showcases technology, finance in agric – The Guardian Nigeria News
21. 🇳🇬 Garri price tumbles 51% amid cassava glut
22. 🇳🇬 Innovation, partnerships needed to build sustainable food systems – Sanwo-Olu
23. 🇳🇬 COP30: Presidency, Obi clash over 423-man Nigeria delegation – Punch Newspapers
24. 🇳🇬 My father warned me not to avenge his assassination – Aguiyi-Ironsi’s son, Thomas – Punch Newspapers
25. Longest shutdown ends: USDA fully funded, SNAP benefits unlocked – Agri-Pulse
26. USTR set to announce tariff carveouts on ag products – Agri-Pulse
27. Nigerian farmers seek govt’s intervention to curb post-harvest losses
28. Saving the Pancake Tortoise: ‘Living emblem’ of Kenya’s natural heritage
29. SPECIAL REPORT: Ondo’s bold palm oil push hampered by outdated practices
30. Plateau’s Alfalfa Project: Model for sustainable livestock farming in Nigeria – Experts

That’s it for agriculture today 🚜. What sector excites you most — crops, livestock, or exports? 💬