Tomilayo Adekanye

"An individual, household, country or region is food secure if its food supply balances, is equivalent to, or is in equilibrium with, the demand for it."

"A ranking of the socio-economic activities of the women studied indicated that their most important activity was the care of children, followed by house-keeping and then trading."

"Some farmers force fruits to ripen in different ways with different chemicals; I noticed it and called the attention of NAFDAC, but nothing happened."

"The quality of what people supply affects the quality of what people buy and some farmers are willing to do anything to sell their products."

"...can appropriately be conceptualized as a balance, or even the equilibrium, between supply and demand and can be for the individual, family or household, a country such as Nigeria, a region such as Sub-Saharan Africa or even the continent of Africa."