Your NameGabriel Obhio Aborele
Email Addressaborele@yahoo.com
Cohort AssignmentHybrid In-Person/Online with Intensive in Rwanda, Fall-Winter 2024
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life?

I am a founder/CEO of an NGO in Nigeria. We have acquired about 3 hectares of land in a farming community for the purpose of restoring the degraded land.

2. What role do you see as yours to play?

My role is to have the right capacity so that i will be able to led my team in this restoration effort and by extension see how to led a national programme on regenerative agriculture.

3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above?

Establishment of a regenerative agriculture and permaculture training and the 3heatares as demonstration field

4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are?

With the right capacity during the training, it is my hope to be able to train the high population of farmers around the over 100 hectares land around our plots on the need to imbibe sustainable agricultural practices for nature conservation and livelihoods enhancement.

5. And for professional growth?

I have had opportunity to speak during side events at COP27 and COP28 of ecosystem restoration. With Capacity built, My NGO being an accredited NGO with ECOSOC, UNFCCC, UNCCD and IPBES would leverage on these platform to seek for better collaboration to upscale the concept of regenerative agriculture in our communities

6. What have you invested in to get you where you are?

I have invested time and have also invested money in securing the 3 hectares with stream by the side as a perennial water source of water to ensure an all year round farming

7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life?

Interpersonal, Verbal etc

8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it?

Good conscience

Date CreatedOctober 10, 2024