‘Farming is Cool’ competition: AfDB launches art contest for school children
African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched the Junior Art Contest in Nigeria to promote the potential of agriculture to secondary school children as part of its ‘Farming is Cool’ initiative. The aim is to engender a generational shift in agriculture on the continent and ensure that Africa is able to feed itself and eradicate malnutrition by 2025. Mr. Akinwumi Adesina, President of AfDB, will present prizes to the three winners from the month-long contest at the commissioning of the Nigeria office building. The winners will receive partial scholarships of one million Naira, half a million Naira and N250,000 as first, second and third place prizes, respectively. “The art competition was conducted to sow a seed of awareness in young minds of the significance and potential of agriculture in the development of a nation’s economy. The Farming is Cool campaign strives to flip the script on farming as a last resort by emphasizing and promoting it as a viable wealth-creation o...