Backend story
Farm and Infrastructure Foundation (FIF) is an organization for policy influencing and promoting policy best practices in food security, agriculture and rural development, through public-spirited policy advocacy, knowledge-driven policy brokerage and evidence-based policy action research.
We envision that, though technology matters for the attainment of food security, policy matters even the more. Hence the need for a policy theory of food security to explain the situation with Nigeria, whereby despite the introduction and application of technology since independence in 1960, hunger persists across all ages of the people, in all strata of society and all the regions of the country, much beyond the internationally tolerable level. Therefore, our analytical attention as well as practical actions is sharply focused on the impediments in the governance environment militating against policy effectiveness, such as, among others: lack of voice and accountability, political instability and violence, government ineffectiveness, aberrant regulatory system, absence of rule of law, and uncontrolled corruption.
In dealing with this situation, FIF comprises professionals in different fields applying their knowledge to remove these policy impediments, with a view to improving life of people living in protracted hunger and malnutrition owing to no fault of their own, save the human factor of bad or badly implemented decisions of policy authorities in public and private sectors of the economy. Thus, FIF was founded on the ideals of policy responsibility, policy accountability and policy due process, following an intellectual stocktaking exercise undertaken by its Founder in 1996 at Heady Hall (Economics Department) at Iowa State University, Ames Iowa U.S.A.); by which time the role of policy in the fight against hunger had crystalized so clearly as to make the systematic reform of food and agriculture governance most compelling for Nigeria.
Our vision
We envision a hunger-free nation wherein the citizens enjoy their fundamental right to food, without prejudice to the overriding traditional role of agriculture in the economy including income generation and livelihood improvements, among other endowed roles.
“Our mission is to give farmers and other rural poor a voice and a vote in the policy process for food security, income generation and livelihood improvement.”
Prof. G.B. Ayoola (Founder/ President)
Regency
Prof I. Onyido – Chairman
Prof G.B. Ayoola – President
Prof J.B. Ayoola – Co-Founder/Executive Director
Mr G.B. Adelabu – Member
Dr S.B. Daudu - Member
Dr Mrs M.O. Adetunji - Member
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