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Tomilayo Adekanye Quotes

born 1942 Nigeria

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.

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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.

Economic considerations are a major determinant of the extent to which women are involved in farming as against processing and trading.

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.

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.

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tomilayo Adekanye (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.