Professor
Raphael Olanrewaju Babatunde
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Biographical Info
Biographical Info:
Raphael Olanrewaju Babatunde is a Professor of Development and Agricultural Economics at the University of Ilorin and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Empowerment (CSAE), Ilorin, Nigeria. He received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. He has over 20 years of teaching and research for development experience, and his research interests include development economics, poverty and economics of malnutrition, health economics, climate change adaptation and resilience, sustainable food systems and impact evaluation. His research methods involve using qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods, as well as experimental and non-experimental impact evaluation techniques. He was formerly Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Pavia, Italy, Nordic Africa Institute (NAI), Uppsala, Sweden, African Studies Centre (ASC), Leiden, Netherlands and University of Passau, Germany. His current research is on building resilience to climate shocks and RCT impact analysis of health interventions on productivity in the rice growing regions of Nigeria. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Young Academy (NYA) and Centre for International Cooperation and Development (CICOPS), Italy. He is a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) specialist and CAADP Technical Expert for the African Union Commission (AUC) and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
He has held several leadership positions at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria including, member of university senate, member of university accreditation, admission screening, farm planning and implementation and quality assurance committees, team leader of Development Economics Research Group and head of department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management. His university teaching assignments in recent years include Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Advanced Agricultural Development and Policy, Advanced Econometrics, Research Methodology, Project Planning and Appraisal, Agricultural Production Economics and Agricultural Finance. He has completed the supervision of 116 students including 82 Bachelor, 30 Master and 4 Doctoral students. He has published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed outlets including 13 papers in Scopus indexed journals. He is serving as external examiner to Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho, Nigeria; Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Nigeria; Kwara State University, Ilorin, Nigeria; University of Cape Town and University of Pretoria, South Africa to mention a few.
Discipline:
Agricultural Economics
Area Of Specialization:
Development economics, poverty and economics of malnutrition, health economics, climate change adaptation and resilience, sustainable food systems and impact evaluation.
Institution:
University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
Research interest:
Development economics, poverty and economics of malnutrition, health economics, climate change adaptation and resilience, sustainable food systems and impact evaluation.
Awards:
Roles/Contributions:
Chairman Social Sciences and Humanities Research Group
Exit Year:2020
Website:http://agriculture.unilorin.edu.ng/dr-ro-babatunde
Scopus:https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55404827800
Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=MxS3Vo0AAAAJ