Lagos Food Bank founder outlines wider response to hunger
Dr Michael Sunbola, founder and executive director of the Lagos Food Bank Initiative, says the organisation is developing the Green Harvest Agri-food Initiative as an additional response to hunger and malnutrition in Nigeria. In an interview with Punch, he linked the initiative to his broader experience addressing food insecurity.
Dr Michael Sunbola, founder and executive director of the Lagos Food Bank Initiative, has described the Green Harvest Agri-food Initiative as an additional response to hunger and malnutrition in Nigeria. Sunbola made the comments in an interview with Punch Nigeria, which examined the work of the not-for-profit organisation and its efforts to help Lagos residents facing hunger. Asked what inspired Green Harvest, Sunbola said the initiative formed part of a broader solution to food insecurity.
He presented it as an extension of the work already associated with the Lagos Food Bank Initiative. The available interview excerpt does not provide further details about the initiative’s structure, scale, beneficiaries or timeline. It also does not set out specific programmes or outputs under Green Harvest.
Sunbola’s comments place the new initiative within the organisation’s wider focus on hunger and malnutrition. The interview description identifies him as having discussed the group’s work helping residents of Lagos overcome hunger, while the excerpt refers to a broader national challenge. The interview was conducted by Felix Oloyede for Punch Nigeria.
Its available material does not include further remarks on the food bank’s operations or on the role of state police in addressing food inflation, despite that issue appearing in the report’s headline.
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