Tomilayo Adekanye
Nigerian agricultural economics professor
Tomilayo Adekanye (born 2 September 1942) is a Nigerian professor of agricultural economics. She was the first female professor in any agricultural-related field in Nigeria, and the first in agricultural economics in Africa.
Quotes
edit- Unlike food security, the equilibrium of traditional agriculture is not a dynamic but a static one, which has remained relatively stable for a fairly long time.
- An individual, household, country or region is food secure if its food supply balances, is equivalent to, or is in equilibrium with, the demand for it.
- ...can appropriately be conceptualized as a balance, or even the equilibrium, between supply and demand and can be for the individual, family or household, a country such as Nigeria, a region such as Sub-Saharan Africa or even the continent of Africa.
- A ranking of the socio-economic activities of the women studied indicated that their most important activity was the care of children, followed by house-keeping and then trading.
- Economic considerations are a major determinant of the extent to which women are involved in farming as against processing and trading.
- The quality of what people supply affects the quality of what people buy and some farmers are willing to do anything to sell their products.
- Some farmers force fruits to ripen in different ways with different chemicals; I noticed it and called the attention of NAFDAC, but nothing happened.
