About the Initiative

A vision built for the
century ahead.

Born in Nigeria. Built for the African continent.

The Greenprint Farmers Initiative is a continental programme conceived to address the most consequential challenge of our time — the question of whether two and a half billion Africans will eat with dignity in 2050. We begin in Nigeria.

Origin

Why now.
Why this.

By 2050, Africa will be home to one in four people on the planet. The continent will need to feed 2.5 billion mouths — yet today it imports food at a scale that drains its capital and erodes its sovereignty. Nigeria alone spends $4.7 billion every year on food it could grow itself.

The Greenprint Farmers Initiative was conceived in answer to this. Not as a charity. Not as an aid programme. But as a structured, investable, coordinated industrial answer to the largest food-systems challenge of the 21st century.

We begin in Nigeria. The first phase will construct seventy-two integrated agro-industrial hubs across the country's thirty-six states and the Federal Capital Territory — each one a five-hundred-hectare ecosystem combining open-field cultivation, soilless greenhouses, processing factories, tree plantations, and solar power. Nigeria is the proof country.

From there, the model is built to travel. Every hub, every protocol, every training module is designed to be redeployed in any partner state across the continent where the conditions repeat. Nigeria leads. Africa follows. The horizon is continental.

Principles

Five commitments
that hold the work.

I

Sovereignty before charity

Africa will not be aided into food security. It must be built into food security — by African capital, African labour, African coordination.

II

Industry, not subsistence

The unit of intervention is not the smallholder farm. It is the integrated agro-industrial hub. Scale and processing turn agriculture into prosperity.

III

Land that heals as it produces

Every hub is paired with reforestation, regenerative practice, and solar power. The programme will not extract from the continent it serves.

IV

Dignified work

2.4 million jobs envisioned, in places where young people are choosing migration over the soil. The work must be worth choosing.

V

Aligned with Africa's frameworks

The programme is built to advance African Union Commission Simulation, the AfCFTA, the Malabo Declaration, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Leadership

The Co-Founders
behind the vision.

Three leaders bringing community-building, operational discipline, and continental diplomacy to a single coordinated effort.

Fatima Binta Lawrence
Co-Founder

Fatima Binta Lawrence

A results-driven leader across community development, social entrepreneurship, and agriculture. As Founder of GOOODDEEDS Empowerment Foundation, she supports widows and orphans while creating sustainable employment for vulnerable families. With a background in Peace and Conflict Studies and direct experience in agricultural enterprise, she brings conflict-resolution, agronomic insight, and team-leadership expertise to the Initiative — combining disciplined business acumen with the kind of compassion that builds durable institutions and empowers the communities they serve.

Uduogho Oritseweyinmi Temile
Co-Founder

Uduogho Oritseweyinmi Temile

A strategic business-administration professional with more than a decade across the bottling, beverage, and facility-management industries. She has consistently driven revenue growth, operational excellence, and market expansion across diverse sectors — strengthening stakeholder relationships, brand reputation, and the collaborative partnerships that support long-term organisational growth. Her commitment to sustainability and corporate responsibility makes her a natural architect of the Initiative's operational model, leading diverse teams toward shared goals with innovation and accountability.

Ambassador Young Piero Omatseye
Co-Founder

Ambassador Young Piero Omatseye

Known as The Pacesetter — Managing Director of Jet Age Nation Builders, with operations in Zimbabwe and Mauritius and an enterprise valued at over $50 million. He leads the Young Piero Organisation, a think-tank and empowerment platform for emerging African leaders, and serves as Director of Parliament at the African Union Commission Simulation. His career spans real estate, agriculture, finance, technology, and diplomacy — bringing boardroom discipline and continental reach to the work ahead.

Nigeria has the land, the labour, the climate, and the commodities. What it needs is a bold, structured, and investable framework to unlock its agro-industrial potential. The Greenprint Farmers Initiative aims to be that framework.
Founders
The Greenprint Farmers Initiative