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Human Existence May End Sooner Than Projected -ACU VC

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Human Existence May End Sooner Than Projected -Ajayi Crowther VC

Professor Timothy Adebayo, Vice Chancellor, Ajayi Crowther University (ACU), Oyo speaking as the Guest Lecturer at the 12th Annual Faculty Week of the Faculty of Agriculture, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, recently.

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Vice Chancellor of Ajayi Crowther University (ACU), Oyo, Professor Timothy Adebayo, has raised the alarm that human existence may come to an end sooner than being projected.

This was as he noted that, with the degradation happening to the ecosystem, climate change is unrelenting in its assault on the earth and its resources.

Adebayo stated these while delivering a paper as Guest Lecturer at the 12th Annual Faculty Week of the Faculty of Agriculture, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, on Thursday.

The lecture was titled, “Back to the Roots: On the Need for Repatriating Entrepreneurship and Development to the Rurality”.

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The ACU vice chancellor however advised scholars in the study of Agricultural Science to rebuild the rural sociology component in the curriculum.

This, he said, became necessary in order to stimulate students and researchers’ interest in sociological implications of agricultural research.

He said: “I wish to use the opportunity to ask all of us to get back to our roots.

“To avoid any obfuscation, I mean getting back to our villages, becoming farmers once more, for the world is being threatened in a totally undeniable dimension at the moment, and human existence is at the brink of a precipice.

“It may all end sooner than is being projected with the degradation that is happening to our ecosystems, the climate change, which we now understand to be unrelenting assault on the earth and its resources.

“Let us not even comment about the possibility of a nuclear war. But we can start doing something about our present predicament.”

He said degradation of the ecosystem, climate change, natural disaster and war are some of the prominent factors capable of cutting off supply of food and other agricultural products to countries that need them.

The university administrator also highlighted the inherent ills in heavy reliance on other nations for food supplies, noting that these were also threatening human existence.

“For us in Nigeria, the picture is more dire, as we seem to have advanced ahead of much of the rest of the world in not being able to feed ourselves any more.

“Today, Nigeria, like much of the rest of the African continent, faces a grave socio-economic crisis.

“Central to this crisis is the near-collapse of the agrarian sector in Nigeria.

“Once major exporters of agricultural commodities to the world, Nigerians, like many other Africans, have now become unable to produce enough food to feed themselves,” he said.

Professor Adebayo recalled that, in 2016, Nigeria took over from India the title of being the poverty capital of the world.

He added that despite relinquishing the title in 2022, a World Bank document pointed out that in 2020, three million Nigerians were consigned to poverty.

He said insurgency in the northern part of the country has had adverse effect on food supplies to the southern part and Chad Republic that also relies on Nigeria for food survival.

“Our villages have become vulnerable to famine. Their condition is the ultimate measure of our development ranking.

“The hunger in our towns and cities are only derivative of the hunger in our villages.

“The role of Faculties of Agriculture in our universities cannot be over-emphasised.

“Their role lies in training and reproducing the critical mass of rural activists to work for the entrenchment of the double paradigm of business and development in the villages.

“I will like to conclude with a proposal about the curriculum. I want to make a special case for rural sociology in the curriculum, a case that we retool the rural sociology component in the curriculum.

“This is so that every agricultural scientist and student of agriculture should develop an interest more or less in the rural sociological implications of their research,” the vice chancellor added.

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