Nuru Nigeria 2023 Impact Report

Nuru Nigeria 2023 Impact Report
Authors: Heath Prince and Thomas Boswell (Ray Marshall Center); Bless Jima, Humshe Yakubu, Amos Emmanuel (Nuru Nigeria); and Casey Harrison, Matt Lineal, Ian Schwenke, and Bethany Ibrahim (Nuru)
Date: December 2024
Publication Type: Report, 19pp.
This report is commissioned by Nuru
Front page photo credit: Nuru Nigeria

INTRODUCTION
In 2023, Nuru Nigeria (NN) intervened with 4,827 farmers across multiple Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Northeast Nigeria. NN’s vision is to cultivate lasting, meaningful choices in the most vulnerable and marginalized communities in the world, starting in Northeast Nigeria. As part of their overall goal, NN aims to equip rural, vulnerable households in these LGAs to improve livelihoods and build resilience capacities to cope with conflict, environment, economic, and social shocks and stressors for stability and prosperity. This is the first independent impact report measuring increases in agricultural yields and incomes following the 5-year Resilience Study carried out by the Ray Marshall Center in partnership with Nuru Nigeria.1 This study found significant and positive impacts in both absorptive and adaptive resilience capacities for NN-supported farmers.

NN will continue to measure impacts of interventions as they relate to the mission and vision of the organization, diversifying livelihoods for smallholder farmers, increasing yields, incomes, and overall resilience, and building professional capacity of sustainable agribusinesses. In 2023, Nuru Nigeria accomplished the following successful program impacts:

• By participating in the diversified livelihood interventions, farmers were able to increase their Crop Equivalent Yield (CEY) of soybeans and groundnuts to 573 kilograms per hectare (kg/ha), representing a 148% increase over the 2019 baseline CEY of 231 kg/ha.
• From the sale of these crops, NN-supported farmers were able to earn an average net income of $145 USD, an increase of $132 USD over the 2019 baseline income of $13 USD prior to interventions. These values are inclusive of high inflation rates in Nigeria.
• Over 99.7% of loans were recovered from farmers who chose to take input packages with the support of Nuru Nigeria. These loans re-enter the Farmers’ Organization (FO) through a revolving fund mechanism, ensuring the long-term sustainability of the FO structures.
• 20 FOs were established, 6 of which received baseline SCOPEinsight assessments to highlight a baseline level of agribusiness professionalism. NN will compare against these baseline measurements in future years to gauge improvement in their supported agribusinesses.