For a pilot project, prosecuting a cluster of events as a variant of commemorating the World Food Day, Oct. 16th 2011. Preamble:
A-DiD is an agric event modelling suite holding a wide range of sector-sensitive high-impact agric-stakeholders engagement concepts such as the Strategic Agric Business Confab(SABC-2010, Songhai Delta) and the event project, code named 7-16-7, aimed to guarantee and ensu
re the concurrent observance of the World Food Day (Oct. 16th, 2011) as a summit with 7-Days Pre-Summit Focus Groups Sensitization Meetings, tagged: Agric-Revival Campaign and 7-Days Post-Summit Focus Groups Sustainability Meetings, tagged: Agric-Consolidation Campaign. A-DiD is a holistic Agric-Stakeholders Engagement Strategy to evoke aggressive participation and functionality of the sector towards a globally competitive agrarian sector where the sustenance and micro level participants of the sector have an unbridled access to global facilities and markets and remain invulnerable to threats associated with ill-developed industry structures. Consequently, A-DiD, as a private sector driven initiative seeks to forge valuable partnership with the public sector relevant agencies under the agricultural public-private-partnership paradigm as to, both enhance the agricultural agenda of state governments in the region and harness the vistas of opportunities inherently existent in the international agricultural frontiers - to the extent that all stakeholders in the region will throw in their full support and give their unfettered endorsement to produce a well developed NIGER DELTA AGRARIAN ECONOMY, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE NIGER DELTA ALONE, THAT MEETS THE COMPETITION FOISTED ON US BY THE OTHER DELTAS OF THE WORLD AND OTHER IMPRESSIONABLE COUNTRY-EXAMPLES AROUND THE WORLD. ARISE NIGERIA! FOR A GLOBAL AGRARIAN CULTURE AND BE PART OF THE SOLUTION TO THE GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS, NOW OR NEVER. CELEBRATE THE WORLD FOOD DAY 2011 - ADOPT AT LEAST ONE LGA WITHIN THE REGION AND NATION. VISION:
A passionate attention on the ramification of the Niger Delta(Nigerian) agricultural sector, mingled with innate creative capacities of specific individuals and guided by the noble conscience of striving for the preservation of humanity could compel relevant institutions to live up to their statutory roles and deliver a globally competitive agrarian economy. MISSION:
Deploying a razzmatazz agric-stakeholders engagment model for mass grassroot mobilisation and management through Agric-Sensitization Campaign and Agric-Sustainability Campaign - where ownership of the cause resides in the rural people having an unbridled access to expert resources. GRAND OBJECTIVES
1. Impacting rural farmers and the host of indigent people through Education, Ethics and Entrepreneurship as veritable tools of sustainable empowerment for world class agrarian competence and global market access
2. Endeavouring to access, appraise, adopt, and adapt global efforts as to replicating them in the agric sector considering our unique peculiarities in founding a globally competitive agrarian economy
3. Initialising a fund-raising and management template which grants the people full control all such funds for their intended purposes
4. To institutionalise our variant of commemorating the World Food Day with the inclusion of other relevant novel global agric events
5. Engaging in Food Rights Advocacy, Awareness and Public consciousness in man's combat against hunger - ruralising this battle in our local frontiers.
6. Establish invulnerable linkages with all sectors of the Nigeria economy for an emergent GREEN REVOLUTION
STRATEGY FOR 7-16-7 of THE WORLD FOOD DAY EVENTS
The programme is expected to run itself, fund itself and own itself through volunteers and willing sponsors whose money and goodwill will be jointly managed by a team of credible people choosen by the people within each local council. The model has an inbuilt mechanism to defy unhealth politicisation and bureaucracy. Consequently, volunteers are invited and welcome to be part of this quiet but definite GREEEN REVOLUTION, HAPPENING WHERE YOU ARE. The strategy is presented briefly thus:
1. Communicating a unified message to all and sundry - National dailies, Local Newspapers, TV and Radio Stations in all 9 States
4. Institutionalising annual Local Council Food & Agric Football League to run from October 1st - November30th
5. Institutionalising annual Local Council Food & Agric Secondary Schools Debate, Quizz and Essay Contests
6. Call for the inauguration of the Niger Delta Goodwill Ambassadors for Food and Agriculture in sync with the UNFAO model
7. Call for the Niger Delta Parliamentary Coalition for Food and Agriculture
8. Call for Campus Campaign Against Hunger in tandem with 'Committe 19'
9. Event Management Fund shall be the exclusive joint management of a leading conventional Bank, Micro-Finance Bank, one reputable elder representative of the LGA, a youth representative of the Local Government Council and a woman representative of the Local Government Council-
10. Record and report of activities shall be shared with the appropriate officer of the Agriculture Department of each Local Government Council
11. Integration of Faith Based Organisations in the process of prosecuting the A-DiD 7-16-7 World Food Day events.
