The human race is one family, regardless of nationality, religion, race or color. We all have the same blood running through our bodies. We are all citizens of the world. When one suffers everyone does!

There is tremendous suffering going on in the world. Over 850 million people are hungry, with over 150 million children malnourished. While progress is being made, we are not winning the war on global hunger. There cannot be peace in a world that is hungry.

Hunger persists in regions and places going through conflicts, wars and fragility. Those who suffer the most are women and children. When the ego and pride of the mighty clash, the consequences are felt by the weakest among us: children. They do not create wars but the world’s children suffer from it the most.

The pictures of walking skeletons breaks our hearts, eyes so hollow, with hearts beatings from skeletal stomachs which seems to say ?mama why am I not getting food?”. But their mamas are also not getting food.

about Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina

As an agricultural economist, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina significantly improved food security in Africa during the past 30 years by implementing revolutionary agricultural economic policy. He proposed a vision of good governance to enable Africa to pioneer its own future and is directing an all around economic development of Africa as the President of the African Development Bank. Prior to becoming the President of the African Development Bank, Dr. Adesina served as the President of the African Association of Agricultural Economists, the Vice President for Policy and Partnerships of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, and the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Nigeria. He was selected as one of the 17 Global Leaders to Spearhead the Millenium Development Goals’ by the UN in 2010, and as the ‘Forbes Africa Person of the Year’ in 2013.