OLBIOS CORRESPONDENT NIGERIA
Sipasi Olalekan Ayodele is a Carrington 2017 Fellow, ONE Champion 2017, Fellow Thinking School Africa, 2016 Winner of the African Youth Award in Agriculture, a seasoned NYSC SDGs Facilitator, The Future Award Africa for Agriculture nominee and the Founder & CEO at ProtectOzone Sustainable Livelihood Initiative where he trains indigent Children, Youths, Active Citizens and Farmers in Sustainable Agricultural Practice and Climate / City Smart Agriculture to alleviate poverty, fight hunger and systematically protect the ozone layer from depletion. He attended The Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State for his Bachelor in Technology (Agriculture), Masters from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, received a certificate in Business Administration from African Management Institute, Nairobi, Kenya and Enterprise Development Centre of the Pan-African University, Lagos.
Sipasi was selected as part of 30 African Change makers in the Agricultural sector who grew from rural community to join other 90 G20 youths in Germany 24th -28th April, 2017 to develop and amend the Berlin Charter on “Creating Opportunities with the Young Generation in the Rural world”. He sees opportunities in turning waste / marginalized agricultural and industrial by-products into economic viable tool to fight hunger, alleviate poverty and increase the socio-economic standard of the communities.