Centre for Development Futures
Anticipatory governance and foresight, helping public institutions build long-range thinking into how they plan, budget and decide.
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Long-range thinking for decisions that cannot wait.
I work with governments, development finance institutions and boards on food systems, climate adaptation and strategic foresight. Nearly two decades of it, mostly in the places where the risk actually lands.
About
Seeing what is changing before it becomes obvious.
Bunmi Ajilore is a strategic foresight and food systems practitioner based in Ibadan, Nigeria, and visiting faculty at Lagos Business School. He works where long-range thinking meets the decisions institutions have to make this quarter.
Over nearly two decades his work has run through international development, agricultural research, climate adaptation and public institutions, including the Global Center on Adaptation, CGIAR/CIAT, GFAR and FAO in Rome, UNDP, the Commonwealth Secretariat and CTA ACP-EU. The field work spans Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Pacific.
He now operates independently as a founder and institution builder, advising leaders who need clearer choices under uncertainty.
MSc Environmental Biology, Agricultural Toxicology, University of Ibadan. B.Agric Soil Science, Olabisi Onabanjo University. SOIF Next Generation Foresight Practitioner, Global Runner-Up and Africa Prize Winner, 2018. CSIS AILA International Fellow, 2018.
Lagos Business School
Global Center on Adaptation
CGIAR
FAO / GFAR
UNDP
Commonwealth Secretariat
CTA ACP-EU
Work and ventures
Four platforms, one question.
What should be done now, given what is likely to be true later.
Pharos Advisors
Strategic advisory for organisations working across food systems, climate and rural economies in Africa.
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Agribusiness built around import substitution, closing the gap between what Nigeria consumes and what it produces.
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Writing on food systems, commodities, geopolitics and climate, for readers who have to act on the numbers.
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Selected engagements
Where the ideas meet the ground.
Workshops, technical sessions and government engagements across Nigerian food systems.
Writing
A weekly read on food, commodities and climate.
Bushels & Barrels is a weekly brief on food systems, commodities, geopolitics and climate across Africa and Nigeria. Every signal is written so a trader, a programme lead or a policymaker can make a decision on it that week.
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For work that needs a longer view.
Advisory conversations, institutional partnerships, speaking, or a question about the writing. Write directly and you will get a direct reply.