Femi is the Founder of Nigeria’s Agric-tech Organization, MyFarmbase Africa (http://myfarmbase.com.ng) leveraging ICT/digital media for quality research, extension and sustainable agricultural development in Sub Saharan Africa.

Femi was named amongst 2017 AAIN top 20 young Africans at the Africa Agribusiness Youth Challenge in Ghana, he was also a nominee of 2018 TSL Africa Prize for Agriculture, the 2018 Future Africa Awards, dubbed African Forbes Award and 2018 Ogun Youth Awards Prize for Agriculture in recognition of his amazing work in the Agriculture sector.

He has spoken at 2 TEDx talks on “Smart Agriculture and Technology” in Nigeria and more recently, he has been a major Agric-tech speaker at key events in Western and Eastern Africa.

He recently presented his paper titled “Leveraging Technology to boost Food Security in Africa" at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and at the invitation of the Rwandan Government, he engaged world leaders of the UN and the Rwandan Cabinet members at the Climate Change and Green Growth Policy Strategy Dialogue in Kigali, Rwanda. He was also a key driver of the #Sexyfarming Campaign with a major farm tour engaging smallholder farmers in Kampala, Uganda.

He was the Operations and Communications Manager for Binkabi, a Singapore-based company (http://binkabi.io/about#aboutteam) that launched the world’s first blockchain based agriculture commodity trading and financing platform in Africa and overtime, his work has been centered around the use of technologies like Blockchain, Robotics, Drones, Artificial Intelligence and Soilless agriculture technologies.

He believes that the increasing adoption of Agric-tech in emerging economies will not only help to end hunger and malnutrition, it will help boost food security in Africa.