Faculty: Forestry
Program: Master of Sustainable Forest Management
Year: 2018
Country: Nigeria
Tobi is very passionate about ensuring sustainable development in Africa through good forest management. During her undergraduate education, she focused on encouraging indigenous people (especially youth) to participate in managing and rejuvenating existing forests, practice agroforestry, and climate-smart agriculture through her involvement with several Agriculture NGO’s in Nigeria. In 2017, she was the program coordinator for the symposium “Deforestation and Climate change, our concern?” organized by the Nigeria Society for Environmental Conservation, FUTA chapter. The program educated 80 young farmers and entrepreneurs in agriculture about how deforestation and climate change affects the agricultural sector, and the ideal response to climate change issues.
Tobi states “to get solutions to problems, one has to think globally and act locally”. She believes a Master’s degree in Sustainable Forest Management at UBC will help broaden her horizon such that when she returns to Africa, she would be able to offer relevant solutions to problems in forest management and give more informed knowledge about sustainable agriculture to farmers. Tobi is most excited about coming to a city where nature is kept at its best.