<img class="aligncenter wp-image-181883 " src="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/bhadmus/2017/06/28/8-Reasons-AfDB-boss-Akinwumi-Adesina-won-2017-world-food-prize-laureate-you-will-be-inspired-after-reading.jpg" alt="" width="571" height="328" /> The President of African Development Bank (AfDB), and former Minister of Agriculture Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has been named the 2017 World Food Prize Laureate. Amb. Kenneth Quinn, the President, The World Food Prize, The Hall of Laureates, made the announcement at a ceremony held at the US department of agriculture, which was attended by US secretary of agriculture Sonny Perdue. Quinn said the nominations for the prize were submitted by organisations and prestigious individuals, adding that a Selection Committee, made of individuals from around the world, made the final decision. <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>More..</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://theinfong.com/2017/01/top-20-richest-nigerian-musicians-net-worth-davido-beats-wizkid-3-new-comer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Top 20 richest Nigerian musicians and their net worth, Davido Beats Wizkid – #3 is a new comer</a></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://theinfong.com/2017/06/olayode-toyo-baby-juliana-reveals-real-reason-left-jenifas-diary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Olayode ‘Toyo baby’ Juliana reveals the real reason why she left Jenifa’s Diary (full details)</a></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://theinfong.com/2017/05/14-times-katy-perry-showed-more-than-she-should-have/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">14 times Katy Perry showed more than she should have – Don’t open if you’re fasting (With Pictures)</a></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://theinfong.com/2017/05/10-habits-that-makes-you-age-faster-you-will-look-young-forever-if-you-eradicate-2-4-and-9/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">10 Habits that make you age faster – You will look young forever if you eradicate #2, #4 and #9</a></span></li> </ul> <img class="img-100 aligncenter" src="https://buzznigeria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Akinwumi-Adesina.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 841px) 100vw, 841px" srcset="https://buzznigeria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Akinwumi-Adesina.jpg 616w, https://buzznigeria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Akinwumi-Adesina-260x146.jpg 260w, https://buzznigeria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Akinwumi-Adesina-85x48.jpg 85w, https://buzznigeria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Akinwumi-Adesina-235x132.jpg 235w, https://buzznigeria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Akinwumi-Adesina-310x175.jpg 310w" alt="African Development Bank boss Akinwumi Adesina" width="578" height="325" /> Since its founding in 1986, the Prize has honoured 45 individuals for their outstanding contributions to food security around the world and Adesina, whose name was selected on Monday in Washington, D.C, will become the 46th recipient of the prestigious award and the sixth African to be honoured. The prestigious 250,000 dollars prize known as the “Nobel Prize’’ for Food and Agriculture, is given annually to a person who has worked to advance human development by “improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world. Adesina who was the Nigeria Minister of Agriculture under the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan will be presented with the award at the award ceremony scheduled for Oct. 19, 2017. The President of the Foundation, Kenneth Quinn, said Nigeria’s former Minister of Agriculture on the 2017 World Food Prize for the following reasons: <ul> <li>He grew up in poverty himself” and embarked on a journey to use his academic training to “lift up millions of people out of poverty, especially farmers in rural Africa”.<!--nextpage--></li> <li>Adesina has been at the fore-front of every major breakthrough in agriculture and food production in the last 30 years.</li> <li>He has driven change in African agriculture for over 25 years and improving food security for millions across the continent.<!--nextpage--></li> <li>He achieved major breakthrough as Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture. As Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture from 2011 to 2015, Adesina successfully transformed the nation’s agriculture sector through bold reforms.</li> <li>He led a major expansion of commercial bank lending to farmers as Vice President of Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and as Minister of Agriculture in Nigeria, introduced the E-Wallet system.<!--nextpage--></li> <li>He introduced initiatives to exponentially increase the availability of credit for smallholder farmers across the African continent and galvanized the political will to transform African agriculture.<!--nextpage--></li> <li>As Associate Director for Food Security at the Rockefeller Foundation, Akinwumi Adesina played a critical leadership role in organising the Africa Fertilizer Summit in Abuja in 2006. The summit was absolutely essential in igniting the campaign to spread a new Green Revolution across Africa, which led to the creation of AGRA.<!--nextpage--></li> <li>Akinwumi Adesina led the “single greatest period of food production and hunger reduction in all human history. The reforms he implemented increased food production by 21 million metric tonnes and attracted 5.6 billion dollars in private sector investments, thus earning him the reputation as the ‘Farmer’s Minister’.”</li> </ul> Mr. Quinn said as the first person from agriculture to ever lead a regional development bank, Adesina’s receiving the Laureate Prize would give impetus in the coming decade to his profound vision. He commended Nigeria’s representation at the event for the announcing the winner of the Laureate Prize, won by a distinguished Nigeria. In attendance were some past awardees, Nigeria’s former minister of finance, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, Nigeria’s acting ambassador to the US and chargé d‘affaires, Hakeem Balogun. 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