I work across the full length of the food system, from fertilizer and farm inputs to trade, program strategy, and the evidence that guides where resources go. My career has run from the field to the ministry to the trade corridor, and my whole subject is closing the distance between what institutions build and what reaches the people it was meant for.
Agricultural policy & food systems strategist · Program leadership · Research, evaluation & trade
The world already grows enough food, and it already knows how to farm. Hunger and rural poverty survive somewhere quieter, in the last mile between what institutions produce and what actually reaches the farmer.
That distance is where food security is decided, and few people have worked it from every side. I have. I have trained smallholder farmers as an extension officer, moved fertilizer at national scale, built technology meant to cross the gap, evaluated the aid designed to close it, and carried what I found back into the rooms where the decisions are made, from government ministries to the institutions that finance food systems.
My doctoral research named one version of the problem. Aid can lift a country's exports while quietly raising the cost of trading, so the gains register at the institution and never reach the people who grew the goods. The pattern repeats wherever food moves. The work, every time, is to close the distance.
I am an agricultural policy and food systems strategist. I have supervised fertilizer logistics at national scale, owned a digital agriculture platform built with IBM, trained smallholder farmers in the field, and evaluated the trade policy that decides whether a harvest ever reaches a market. Economics runs underneath all of it, since governments and institutions hold the levers, and my doctorate lets me meet them on their own terms.
I started in the fields of Kwara State, Nigeria, training smallholder farmers through extension work. I moved through national fertilizer logistics, into agritech product development with OCP Africa and IBM, and then into a doctorate in development economics at the University of East Anglia, studying how aid and trade travel along agricultural corridors.
I hold four degrees across agriculture, global affairs, and economics, formed in Nigeria, the United States, and the United Kingdom, alongside PMP, PMI-ACP, AWS, and executive credentials from Wharton, the World Bank, and the IMF. That range taught me to speak to the farmer and the funder in the same afternoon, in language each one trusts, and that fluency is the whole job.
From the field to the supply chain to the policy table, the same body of work seen from every vantage point.
The positions my work is built on, applied to the questions food systems are facing right now.
The center of everything I do. Fertilizer and input systems, market access and trade, food security, and the policy that shapes them, grounded in what actually happens between the harvest and the household. I work with organizations building, funding, evaluating, or setting policy for agricultural programs and the systems meant to serve them, across Africa and globally.
End-to-end ownership from design through delivery and honest evaluation, built for complex, multi-stakeholder environments where ambiguity is the norm and meticulous execution is the difference.
Mixed-methods research, econometric modeling, and qualitative fieldwork for institutions that need independent thinking, translated into narratives that move people to act.
Technology built to reach the people it was meant to serve. I shipped an end-to-end digital agriculture platform with IBM covering farm inputs, market access, finance, and advisory services, and I design AI-enabled research and production workflows for food systems work. The test is always the same, whether the tool survives contact with the last mile.
Making the hidden logic of food systems legible to the people who fund them, build them, and depend on them, through research, writing, and public work on rural livelihoods and the distance between institutions and households.
A public education platform translating how the world actually feeds itself, country by country. Tens of thousands of views across more than twenty countries.
Watch on YouTubeNine short stories about women whose intelligence lives outside the places the world is trained to look for it, the kind of sharp mind that goes unnamed and miscounted, working quietly inside lives the systems never thought to measure.
Purchase on AmazonA translated and annotated collection of over three hundred classical Arabic aphorisms on character, knowledge, and governance, made accessible to contemporary readers.
Purchase on AmazonEssays on development, economics, and the human systems that shape how we live, written to earn the reader's time by saying something true and saying it well.
Read on MediumOn agriculture and climate-resilience work, I collaborate with Aidant Agro-Tech, a Nigerian advisory firm founded by my own professor and mentor, the teacher who first taught me agriculture. Her research spans climate-smart agriculture, pastoralism under extreme weather, water allocation, and post-harvest systems. Together we extend that expertise to farms and ranches facing climate risk, from Nigeria to the United States and beyond.
I welcome conversations about full-time and permanent roles, along with policy, research, evaluation, advisory work, and speaking across food systems, agricultural trade, and rural development. If your work lives in the space between how a system functions and the people it was built to serve, this is the conversation to start.