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FOOD, US, OUR FUTURE


Faced with a decision, in the winter of 2014, to choose a topic for my thesis as a postgraduate student pursuing a masters degree in Architecture at the University Of Lincoln, UK , all I could think of was “Food Security”. Seemed weird to some, but I remembered my childhood, growing up with parents who where both professionals in their fields but also intentionally practiced agriculture because they had access to the available resources and they understood the importance of food security. Unfortunately the culture of people around the world in regards to growing our own food has changed. Vegetable and fruit gardens have gradually disappeared, Climate change and sociopolitical crises has caused a great reduction in food production. Globalization has also increased the disappearance of local identity in rural communities across Africa and the world.I would like to contribute to combating the problem of Food security using the skills I have as an Architect. I have also gained more skills in the area of Food Security, to be able to carry out strategic interventions appropriate for a particular context. Please Join me on this journey and we will work together to ensure that we have social, economic, and physical access to safe and nutritious food at all times in other to live active and healthy lives.
Let us see our diverse skills as an advantage and ask ourselves how we can approach this problem of Food insecurity that threatens us all, from different angles, working with one mind and one sense of purpose to arrive at the same result.