Agricultural development
Supporting farmers with knowledge, inputs and sustainable practice.
Growing People.Nourishing Communities.Transforming Lives.
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Our belief
We believe agriculture can change lives.
Lydia Alonge AgriLife Foundation works to empower farmers, women, youth and vulnerable communities through sustainable agriculture, training, economic opportunity and community development.
Registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission, NigeriaRC 9324189Incorporated TrusteesCertified 13 February 2026
Why we exist
Across rural Oyo State, the people who grow the food carry the least of its value. Harvests are sold at the farm gate on the worst day of the year. Women with real skill lack the one machine that would turn that skill into income. Young people leave the land because nobody has shown them that agriculture is also enterprise.
We exist to close those gaps: training that arrives with the tools to use it, farming methods that hold up as the climate shifts, and a route from the field to a buyer. We serve smallholder farmers, women, young people and households that wider programmes tend to pass over.
Our mission
To empower farmers, women and vulnerable communities through training, tools, climate-smart practice and access to markets.
Our vision
A future where every community has the opportunity to thrive through sustainable agriculture and inclusive economic development.
What we do
Eight strands of one piece of work.
Women's empowerment
Creating room for women to participate, lead and earn.
Farmer support
Helping smallholders raise productivity, income and resilience.
Education and training
Agricultural education, vocational skills and capacity building.
Youth empowerment
Skills, enterprise and a route into agriculture for young people.
Environmental sustainability
Responsible farming that protects soil, water and habitat.
Food security
Stronger, more resilient local food systems.
Community development
Initiatives that lift the quality of life in underserved communities.
Our impact
What changed because we were here?
The foundation was incorporated in February 2026. These figures are being verified from programme records before we publish them.
Farmers supported: figure being verified
Women empowered: figure being verified
Young people reached: figure being verified
Communities impacted: figure being verified
Training sessions held: figure being verified
Women
When women thrive, communities grow.
Women do a great deal of the farming and most of the food processing in rural Oyo State, and hold the least of the equipment. Our empowerment work puts the machine, the training and the market contact in the same pair of hands — and then stays in touch.
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Youth
The future of agriculture starts with our youth.
Young people leave farming because it is presented to them as subsistence. We present it as it actually is: business, logistics, processing, trade and enterprise, with a machine or a means of transport to start from.
Enterprise · Skills · Processing · Trade
Sustainability
Protecting the land that feeds us.
Soil health, water discipline, drought-tolerant varieties and planting calendars adjusted to a rainy season that no longer arrives on schedule. Climate-smart agriculture is not an add-on to our programmes; it is how they are designed.
Community
The people behind the impact.
Farmers · Women · Youth · Families · Community leaders · Entrepreneurs
Our journey
From a resolution to a programme.
December 2025
The beginning
A constitution adopted and an application filed to register the foundation as an incorporated trustee body.
February 2026
Registered
Certified by the Corporate Affairs Commission under RC 9324189, with three appointed trustees.
June 2026
First programme
The Empowerment Programme runs in Alakia, Ibadan — training and equipment handed over the same day.
Next
Where we are going
Farmer training cohorts, a climate-smart pilot and the first buyer linkages for cassava and maize growers.
Get involved
Six ways to take part.
Donate
Support agricultural and community programmes directly.
Volunteer
Contribute time, teaching or professional expertise.
Partner
Collaborate with us on design, delivery or funding.
Sponsor a programme
Fund a single initiative end to end, reported against agreed indicators.
Become a community partner
Host and support local implementation in your community.
Support a farmer
Back one smallholder through a full season of training and inputs.
The work continues.
More farmers trained. More women equipped. More young people with a reason to stay on the land. We are looking for the partners who will make the next season larger than the last.
Where next
About
Lydia Alonge AgriLife Foundation is a not-for-profit, non-political organisation registered in Nigeria as an incorporated trustee body, working from Ibadan across rural Oyo State.
Programmes
Six programme areas, one for each objective in our constitution. The Empowerment Programme is running; the rest are in design and open to partnership.
Get involved
We need trainers, agronomists, artisans willing to teach their trade, and people who can help with logistics on programme days.