A.S.T.A.N. Beekeeping Ilaro Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Olabisi Jayeola Simeon

To be actively involved in the Slow Food movement and its mission by promoting and practicing beekeeping, creating and arising awareness on the Slow Food philosophy

Iwoya

Abeokuta Ofada Rice production and processing Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Atbatele Gladys

To encourage the African rice farmers by helping to look for a better and conducive rice farming system which would lead to large production of this traditional rice ...Because of the difficulties they face,they're not able to cultivate enough and this has made the price more expensive and not affordable for the poor mercies. Some of the challenges are not having modern equipments, they cultivate manually and this reduces the acreage tilled,it increases labour cost and reduced production, cultivation is also tough due to tree populated forests that requires so much labour to clear etc.

Abeokuta

Abotokio Beekeeping Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Asade Elijah A.

To contribute to Slow Food mission by promoting beekeeping to produce good, clean and fair beekeeping products and engage with other communities and organizations in the region to act as a conduit to access good, clean and fair beekeeping products and Slow Food principles.

Ika Orile

Amazing Grace Ajibare Beekeeping Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Oguntolu Thomas Abiola

To contribute to the Slow Food mission by practicing beekeeping to produce good, clean and fair beekeeping products. And engage with other communities/organisations in their region to act as a conduit to access to good, clean and fair beekeeping products and Slow Food principles.

Ajibare

Anglican Grammar School Garden Ilaro Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Adefunke Adeyemi Busirat

To instill the principles and practices of Slow Food into the school community (students and staff) that will enable to actively participate and contribute positively to the Slow Food movement globally

Ilaro, Yewa South, Ogun state

Badagry Coconut Heritage Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Adeosun Lawal T.

Create awareness and sensitize the people about the Slow Food principles and demonstrate, promote and celebrate our local food heritage. One of our local heritage is the Coconut because it's a peculiar plant in Badagry and it dominates the entire coastal region of Badagry. Unfortunately, people are cutting it down to give way to industrial agriculture, logging it for construction and firewood and what they refer to as development. So we also work to reawake the people of Badagry about the many benefits of Coconut through creative exhibition of foods and products that can be obtained through Coconut.

Badagry

Beekeeping Shika Zaria Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Barau Idris Muhammad

Contribute to the Slow Food mission by practicing beekeeping to produce good, clean and fair beekeeping products. And engage with other communities/organisations in their region to act as a conduit to access to good, clean and fair beekeeping products and Slow Food principles.

Zaria

Dannakola Sustainable Fishing Katsina Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Suleiman Fahad

To create awareness among local fishermen against fishing of small fish which often causes grave environmental damage, especially when vessels use prohibited gear, such as driftnets, that catches non-target species or physically damages or destroys seamounts and other vulnerable marine ecosystems

Katsina

Dynamic Beekeepers Benin City Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Emwionmwan Samson

To be part of the Slow Food movement's mission by promoting environmentally sustainable and ecologically safe beekeeping and agriculture practices that produce good, clean and fair beekeeping and agricultural products.

Benin City

Ewa Ibile Defenders Lagos Central Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Adeola King K.

To contribute to the Slow Food mission by promoting good, clean and fair organic products. To engage with other communities/organisations in the region to act as a conduit to access to a good, clean and fair food system. To be great ambassadors of Slow Food in promoting and advocating for a good, clean and fair food system in our community and country through educating and informing its citizenry on organic practices by changing every household one meal at a time. To educate the youth about the benefit of organic practices and renew their passion in agricultural practices and lastly, to give a platform for exchange of ideas and fair payment for organic producers.

Egbeda

Gbokoto Ketu Beekeeping Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Olayode Williams Oluranti

To contribute to the Slow Food mission by practicing beekeeping to produce good, clean and fair beekeeping products. And engage with other communities/organisations in their region to act as a conduit to access to good, clean and fair beekeeping products and Slow Food principles.

Gbokoto Ketu

Ibadan youth for education and advocacy Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Okeola Olajumoke Rachael

We aspire to be a community of youths who are conscious of what they eat and how they source for it. We hope to educate and create awareness within our locality on the need to get back into the real tradition of Slow Food.

Ibadan

Ifedapo Beekeping Ileba Ilaro Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Babalola Ganiyu

To contribute to the Slow Food mission by practicing beekeeping to produce good, clean and fair beekeeping products. And engage with other communities/organisations in their region to act as a conduit to access to good, clean and fair beekeeping products and Slow Food principles.

Ilaro, Ogun State

Ifesowapo Owode Ketu Beekeeping Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Aremu Fabuyi Adegbenga

To act as a Slow Food coordinating center in order to exchange ideas, innovations, opportunities with the people and other Slow Food communities and to organise such activities that will promote the Slow Food principles and practices among the smallholders and farmers in the area. To practice, engage in disseminating the Slow Food Beekeeping activities/standards within our reach by creating Slow Food Gardens and apiaries as part of the vision to create 10,000 Gardens in Africa. To work and collaborate with Slow Food movement and Bees Abroad UK so as to present a Nigeria stall/honey bar at Terra Madre-Salone del Gusto events. To promote crop pollination through beekeeping and campaing against pesticides use. To report events/activities promptly to Slow Food and Bees Abroad UK.

Owode - Ketu

Ito-Omu Fishing and Women Farmer Island Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Oshin Olori Ololade

To create sustainable, ecofriendly and healthy fishing practices and also to promote self sufficient women farmers as key players in the home front and community as a whole, following the guidelines of Slow Food with the aims of promoting and preserving our food, culture and the planet by engaging the collective effort of every community member

Ito-omu Island (epe)

Jorafarm Beekeeping Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Akande Ayoade Alabi

To contribute to the Slow Food mission by practicing sustainable beekeeping as we were trained by Bees Abroad to produce good, clean and fair beekeeping products. And engage with other communities/organisations in their region to act as a conduit to access to good, clean and fair beekeeping products and Slow Food principles.

Ile-ife, Osun State

Kankara Mazarkwaila Production Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Abdullahi Mohammed

To promote the cultivation of sugarcane and enhance production and preservation of local brown sugar organically suitable for human consumption in accordance with the International best practices

Dabai/Danja

Katsina Bado Producers Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: SULEIMAN UMAR FARUK

To enlighten the community on the importance of traditional food; To create a medium which people will get easy access to traditional food

Katsina

Katsina Cefane Enhancers Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: SULEIMAN FAISAL

Create awareness aimed to reduce meat consumption for clean, fair and better environments. Involve local farmers in developing and practice conservation programmes on vegetables (cefane) with emphasis on their interest, experience, socioeconomic and cultural background and settings.

Katsina

Katsina Daddawa Production Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Hauwa Ahmad Dodo

To sensitize people on the nutritional values of traditional foods over the detrimental values of fast food. To revive and enhance the production and use of indigenous foods that are on the verge of extinction. To rebrand and present local foods to the global market.

Katsina

Ketu Magodo Ikorodu Ofada Rice Production Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Olalekan Olatilo

To join forces to let people know the importance of good, clean and fair food for all. To create more awareness, educate people about their patterns of consumption, what they eat, what they produce, where do they get the seeds they use for farming. And also involving the youth and women about this movement to protect food biodiversity and enlightening our farmers to farm according to Slow Food ideas and principles.

Ketu Magodo Ikorodu

Kwado Beekeeping Production Enlightenment Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: SAULAWA ASMA’U ADAMU

Enlightenment of community members and other prospective ones on the need to engage and re-engage in the beekeeping activities they abandoned despite the economic, environmental and health benefits that are known to beekeeping around and world over.

Kwado

Mamie Emerald Forest Beekeeping Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Ladipo Modupe

1) assisting disadvantaged adults and the elderly in indigenous locality by uplifting women and men 2) Evergreen ministry 3) Ecotourism retreat 4) organic farming model promoting ecological integrity and regard for life and nature 5) organic farm products - bio energy, palm oil, honey, soap, indigo batik work, cocoa tea 6) development of public nature sanctuaries/ parks

Ikoyi-osun

Modoji Zogale Promoters Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: FAWWAZ SULEIMAN

To promote the yield and production of indigenous edible green leaves for economic and health benefits in line with Slow Food philosophy To create awareness among our younger ones on how to produce, prepare, and preserve them

Katsina

Niger Delta Beekeeping Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Kejekpo Omonade

To contribute to the Slow Food mission by practicing beekeeping to produce good, clean and fair beekeeping products. And engage with other communities/organisations in their region to act as a conduit to access to good, clean and fair beekeeping products and Slow Food principles.

Ughelli, Delta State

Pedepo Ibere Issale Border Beekeeping Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Olabisi Simeon Kudayisi

To be part of the Slow Food movement's mission by practising and promoting beekeeping to produce good, clean and fair honey and its secondary products. And to actively engage with other communities or groups in our region to act as a mean to access good, clean and fair bee products through Slow Food principles and practices.

Issale

Yewa Egbado College Garden, Ilaro Nigeria Info

Type: Communities

Convivium leader / spoke person: Ogunlade Ebenezer

Adopts Slow Food principles and practices to empower, educate and inspire the school curriculum towards sustainable access to good, clean and fair food and extend same to the neighborhood communities in Ogun State

Ilaro, Yewa South, Ogun state