Nigeria presented Thursday, November 27, 2025 at of a ceremony held in Abidjan, an official document, unveiling a new national strategy to comply with the new European requirements of fight against deforestation.

Named “White Paper on Strategy for EUDR” Compliance in Nigeria”, Nigeria's national strategy aims to align its agricultural sectors on the new European regulation to combat deforestation. Through this traceability, surveillance and control of supply chains, Abuja seeks to secure its export opportunities and to preserve several billion dollars of agricultural income.

Concretely, this document allows the department to Agriculture to establish a framework for traceability and monitoring of farms and supply chain control in order to maintain access for its agricultural exports to European Union . According to the Government, the objective is that agricultural products intended for exports are now “traceable up to the exact limit of farm, legally produced and verifiable as being free from deforestation ”.

To deploy effectively This strategy, the Nigerian authorities also announced a protocol Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Ministry of Agriculture and National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), the space agency of the African country from the West. Thanks to this agreement, the space agency will provide images satellites, real-time monitoring of agricultural land as well as a technical expertise to ensure the follow-up of productions.