Olalekan Ayodele Sipasi

Sipasi Olalekan Ayodele is President Barak Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative YALI, West Africa Ambassador to Nigeria, the CEO of L’Afrika Integrated Farms, Fellow Thinking School Africa, the founder of ProtectOzone and 2016 Winner of the African Youth Award in Agriculture. He attended The Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State for his Bachelor in Technology (Agriculture), Masters from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where he greatly explored his potentials, got a certificate in Business Administration from African Management Institute, Nairobi, Kenya and Enterprise Development Centre of the Pan-African University, Lagos. He is a dynamic young adult that combined community development work with academics and was successful, he is a dogged entrepreneur driven with passion and enthusiasm in community development through sustainable agricultural processes, innovations and appropriate technology. 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. He innovated the Mobile Kitchen Garden, where he used waste to combat Ozone Layer depletion and produce vegetables simultaneously which bagged him the 2015 HIDDEN ECO-HERO AWARD WINNER, Samsung Engineering’s Tunza Eco-generation, Seoul, South Korea. He was listed among the Top 10 Go Green in the City Ambassador of the Schneider Electric, 2016. Got the Social Innovators Fellowship 2016/2017 of LEAP Africa, He also got The LION’S AWARDS, as THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PARTICIPANT of Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), West Africa Cohort 3, West Africa Centre for Cooperate Social Responsibility. He is a Global Shaper of The World Economic Forum focusing on SDG Goal 13 “Climate Action”, an outstanding National Graduate Volunteer of Voluntary Service Overseas, Nigeria, served as the President of Environmental Protection and Conservation Club, 2013 -2014, during his tenure, he was saddled with the responsibilities of preventing tree falling, bush burning, drain blockage and the sustainability of the project. He has over 20 years of experience in agriculture, the effect of his childhood experience as related to his future ambition cannot be overemphasized. In 2013, he was shortlisted by the Federal government during his National Service program to be a partaker of “NYSC/MDGs War Against Poverty (WAP) Agro-Entrepreneurial Skill Training in Abuja, Nigeria. He has spoken in wide array of conferences on youth’s participation in Agriculture across borders. His speeches and presentations has made viable youths embrace and return to voluntary service and civic engagement across Africa.