Author: Adewale Kupoluyi
By Olamide Tejuoso Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, has become one of recipients of the “OBE” initiative aimed at ensuring households produce their own food. The initiative called OBE, a Yoruba word that literarily translates as ‘soup’, and had been inaugurated in Ondo State in 2021, according to the initiator, is a project aimed at equipping every household with valuable information and resources on how to grow all foodstuff they need for soup, right in their compound. Speaking at the launch, Mrs. Tomi Olatoye listed the advantages of OBE initiative as ensuring food security for each household, food sustainability scheme…
By Olamide Tejuoso Individuals are being invited by the World Food Prize to submit nominations for the Norman Borlaugh Field Research and Application Award, 2023. Norman Borlaugh Field Award is a $10,000 award, which recognises exceptional, science-based achievement in international agriculture and food production by an individual, under the age of 40. Awardees are expected to emulate the same intellectual courage, stamina and determination in the fight to eliminate global hunger and poverty, as demonstrated by Dr. Norman Borlaug, as a young scientist, working in Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s. Dr. Norman Ernest Borlaug, also known as the Father…
By Olamide Tejuoso The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Yemen, have been identified by the United Nations report, as countries housing more than 40 per cent of the most vulnerable people needing emergency food aid, as of 2022, as they are suffering acute levels of hunger. According to the UN report, some of the 258 million identified people were plunged unto the brink of starvation due to causes of conflict, economic shocks and climate disasters. The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres said recently, “More than a quarter of a billion people are now facing acute levels of…
