Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Akin Adesina, talks about his strategy for a Green Revolution in Nigeria.

Jean-Gerard Mezui M’ella, IAPSC Director, talks about the important work that this African Plant Protection Organization is doing to coordinate plant protection procedures in the continent.

Olufunke Awosusi, Senior Plant Quarantine Officer with the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS) discusses how NAQS tries to keep out “foreign” pests from Nigeria to protect and enhance the agricultural economy.

Martha Byanyima, the Regional Process and Partnerships Facilitator of CAADP at the COMESA Secretariat, explains how the Green Pass system works in harmonizing sanitary and phytosanitary measures in the region.

James M. Lowenberg-Deboer of Purdue University talks about the importance of cowpea in Africa and his experiences working with African farmers.

Irvin E. Widders, Director of the Dry Grain Pulses CRSP, talks about the strengths and achievements of the program.

The Deputy Undersecretary for Science at the Smithsonian Institution, Scott Miller, discusses the importance of biodiversity conservation and what the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) is doing in this area.

Ken Neethling, CEO of Biocontrol Products (BCP), the South African company that produces Green Muscle®, talks about this biocontrol solution to locusts and the challenges that BCP faces in producing it.

The president of one of the strongest crop networks in Nigeria, Pastor O.A. Adenola, talks about the need for stakeholders to join forces against aflatoxin spread and other issues.

Sunday Ekesi is a research entomologist from Nigeria working at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe). He is currently leading a continent-wide initiative on the African fruit flies that threaten the production and export of fruits and vegetables.