Betting on Africa to Feed the World
Author: Amy Juhnke | Image: Amy Juhnke
The College of Liberal Artsa and Sciences is a proud co-sponsor of Betting on Africa to Feed the World, the 2017 Norman Borlaug Lecture – featuring World Food Prize Laureate Akinwumi Adesina
Akinwumi Adesina is President of the African Development Bank and the 2017 World Food Prize Laureate. Heralded as “Africa’s Norman Borlaug,” Adesina has for the past two decades helped transform African agriculture. He organized the 2006 Africa Fertilizer Summit, was an early leader in the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa and, more recently, served as Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture. His policy reforms in support of the African farmer have expanded access to financing and credit, helped end corruption in the fertilizer and seed sectors, and promoted investment in agriculture from both the public and private sectors.