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The Lasgidi Farmer Podcast

By: The Lasgidi Farmer
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  • Discussion of pertinent issues and opportunities in the Nigerian agriculture space.
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Episodes
  • EP 04 (FB Live) | Dr. Badiru: Revamping Agricultural Extension System for a Sustainable Food System

    EP 04 (FB Live) | Dr. Badiru: Revamping Agricultural Extension System for a Sustainable Food System
    Jul 7 2024
    This discourse was about the role extension can play in ensuring a food secure Nigeria, especially in stemming the nation’s present high food inflation. It features Dr. Badiru Idris, a senior lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, University of Ibadan, who has been significantly engaged in transforming the farming system and rural economies in different initiatives at community, state, national and global level and with public, private and NGOs and international institutions. Issues seen with the food situation depict extension gap and the discourse attempted to unravel these gaps and reasons for them tracing the history, approaches and structure of and impediment to extension system and service delivery. On this basis, possible solutions were given and the best form of extension model to adopt looking at learnings in the course of different extension practices and delivery approach. The importance of and the role of the rural economy -being stable and productive -to provide foods and resources supporting lives and other sectors and industries, impacting the general economy and translating to a prosperous nation, was established. In this regard, investing in rural economy ensuring basic amenities and productivity enhancing facilities that makes the rural life worth living to stem rural-urban migration, make life habitable for rural residents and their extension worker partner was highlighted to be crucial. The discourse touched on providing holistic support for extension workers as regards resources and training to support farmers, drive change in rural communities that spreads across the nation -creating employment, opportunities, tackling multidimensional poverty, hunger, inequality, insecurity, and bridging inequality gap. The converse also looked into the role of technology in delivering responsive and effective extension service that advice for the adoption of new technologies that break barriers and expedite the dissemination of venture impacting information, innovation and support. The event ended with revealing the opportunities for graduates of agricultural extension and agriculture in general, detailing the opportunities, possibilities and career prospects in the fields and how to navigate them, offering practical steps.
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    2 hrs and 15 mins
  • EP 03 | Food crisis (Nigeria) -Issues & Solutions

    EP 03 | Food crisis (Nigeria) -Issues & Solutions
    Jul 4 2024
    This episode seeks solution to Nigeria’s food crisis by detailing the history and dimension of the situation that helps with understanding the causes and how the food crisis came to be, and guide actions. The episode discussed potent solutions that could be pursued to remedy the food problems.
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    57 mins
  • Sack-Farming Training

    Sack-Farming Training
    Jun 12 2024
    This Episode details a comprehensive guide to Sac-farming. Sack-farming entails growing food in containers. As population rises with attending increase in food demand while cultivable land diminishes to urbanisation and industrialisation, sack-farming is offering an innovative way to sustainably produce food. Requiring little resources and adapting to different spaces ensure the innovation is broadly adopted and in this way promote broader participation in food production which helps with household, community, national and global food security. The sack-farming initiative supports fast growing fruits and vegetables crops rich in vitamins and minerals and hence allow for a nourished population. The concept encourages efficient resource use and thus ensures that food is produced sustainably without impairing the ecosystem and future generation. It is in this understanding the podcaster (The Lasgidi Farmer) established this training and thought to upload it when he created a podcast trusting it would help people who want to grow their own food and motivate individuals to grow their own food, especially in a time of global food inflation and crisis and changing climate.
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    2 hrs and 29 mins
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