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WORLD FOOD DAY 2024 -- VERTICAL FARMING POISED TO RISE IN AFRICA #Nigeria today, with a population in excess of 234M, stands as the sixth most populous country on the planet and the most populated nation in #Africa. By 2050, Nigeria with a projected population of 401M, is expected to overtake the #UnitedStates as the #third most populous country on Earth, with #India and #China taking the top two spots, respectively. #Foodinsecurity, however, is a challenge faced by a significant portion of Nigeria’s population. In the first quarter of this year, for instance, roughly 100 million people were food insecure as #foodinflation in the country hit 35% in January. What’s more, 30% of the country’s states experience insecurity of #agricultural #land. And with the compounding impact of the exorbitant rise in the price of #fuel, Nigeria’s federal government declared a state of emergency on #foodsecurity in July 2023. It is in part against this background that Kayode Oguntayo, an alumnus of the The University of Edinburgh, has partnered -- with GROWPIPES, @Green&Berries Farm, green city farming and the Association for Vertical Farming, among others -- to put into practice Kayode’s entrepreneurial vision of adopting #VerticalFarming as a smart solution to fostering food security, #resilience and #inclusiveness in Nigeria -- and in all of Africa -- by directly addressing such perennial agricultural production challenges as “low productivity, inadequate government funding, climate change, and infrastructure deficiencies.” Meanwhile, Nigeria is endowed with abundant #renewableenergy resources -- including #solar, #wind, #hydro and #biomass -- ready to be harnessed to scale up its energy supply. Kayode is clear that a “#privatesector-driven structural change in the [Nigerian] agriculture sector is needed for the desired development of increased #productivity, #quality and #value addition.” The best is yet to come. Happy #WorldFoodDay 2024. Christer Tilk, Robert Carlsson, Mark Stribling Christine Zimmermann-Loessl, Silvana Nicola, Marcos Juarez Nicolau, Susanna Lössl, Nina Kapitan Association for Vertical Farming, VertiFarm, Messe Dortmund GmbH University of Arizona, FAO, USDA