Babatunde Olarewaju

Food and Population: Tackling the Barriers to Increasing Food Production

In this week's Letter to My Farmers, Babatunde places the focus on the various barriers to farming for the people and being able to produce enough food for all the hungry mouths. Food production can be more efficient, if we all focus on sustainable...

Food or the Environment

Food is a universal language that anyone can speak or experience irrespective of location. Nature (environment) rewards the farmers who till the soil, plant the seeds and maintain his or her pride to produce food that meets the needs of the people.

Food Safety: The Food Handlers have a Role

In this week's Letter to My Farmers, Babatunde focuses on the importance of providing safe, cost-effective produce to consumers without compromising the production process.

Food Safety: The Last Mile Agents have a Role

In this week's Letter to My Farmers, Babatunde introduces the topic of food safety throughout the transportation process. It is important to make sure that enough food meets the demand, to reduce scarcity, but if cross-contamination and improper...

Food System: The Need for Certification in the Local Food Supply Chain

In this week's Letter to My Farmers, Babatund stresses the importance of food safety and food certification. How important is food certification if affordability is at risk for consumers?

High Risks Hamper Productivity in Agriculture

In this week's Letter to My Farmer, Babatunde outlines the three main risks present as obstacles to productivity in agriculture.

High Risks are an Obstacle to Productivity in Agriculture

In this week’s Letter to My Farmers, Babatunde discusses the necessity of a move from small scale markets to commercial markets in order to decrease food scarcity.

Beginning of Food Security: Good Seed, Good Life

In this week's Letter to My Farmers, Babatunde's emphasis is placed on seed quality. Sustainable seed quality and seed production is key in order to ensure high quality variety of crops.

It Only Becomes Food, If It Is Safe to Consume

In this week's Letter to My Farmers, Babatunde touches on food safety. More food is not the only goal that needs to be achieved. It needs to be safe as well. This is something that desperately needs to be addressed at the farm level.

Weak Infrastructure, no Sustainability

In this week's Letter to My Farmers, Babatunde stresses the importance of placing sustainability itself as a key factor in developing social and economic infrastructure if we are to see any growth in the agricultural sector.

Food Security: The Need to Increase Productivity

In this week's Letter to My Farmers, Babatunde discusses the importance of knowledge transfer and growth in order to appropriately increase productivity.

Women in Agriculture: Breaking the Bias

Breaking the bias and feminizing agriculture is crucial to achieve food security in Africa, argues Babatunde in today's letter to his farmers.