Olumide DAVID is a Regenerative Agriculturist with 27 years’ experience spanning agronomy, animal husbandry, food processing and storage, agricultural mechanization and agricultural economics. His passion to eradicate hunger through food production inspired him to launch an agribusiness in 2007 that has evolved into Farm Naturale—an integrated organic farm—which he directs as Managing Director. Farm Naturale occupies about 100 acres of land in Arawa, near Epe, a border town between Ogun and Lagos states. Its operations cover the entire agricultural value chain, from farm to table, and it offers farm management services, training and farm equipment manufacturing.

Known as a Corporate Farmer because of his expertise in running profitable agricultural ventures, Olumide is a seasoned Consultant who has set up multiple commercial-size farms for other farmers. This journey into agricultural entrepreneurship began on his father’s farm, where he was actively engaged and managed aspects of the business. Further, in junior secondary, he successfully raised birds during agriculture practical class. This led him to start a poultry farm that grew to include cattle. He followed through by attending the University of Agriculture in Makurdi, in 2003. While there, he served for 5 years as National President of Global Leadership Initiative founded by Dr Noel Woodroffe, a role that informed his participation in youth advancement in thereafter. A proponent of good governance and youth development with a heart for community transformation, Olumide plays an advisory role to local governments. As an Advisor to Lagos Island local government, he led the intervention team that built and equipped the Lagos Island East Montessori School, after the collapse of another school in the community. In addition, he is a member of the governance council of his farming community.

Olumide believes that his vision to see a food secure Africa begins with raising a generation of passionate farmers. To this end, he has established a primary school whose curriculum emphasizes agriculture. Next, he hopes to establish a secondary school that teaches nature conservation, recycling, and other principles of circular economy because they form the basis for peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable communities.