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Raphael Olanrewaju Babatunde is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management at the University of Ilorin. He has over 20 years of University administrative, teaching, and research for development experience. He has served as Head of the Department and member of several other University committees. He is the Chairman of the Faculty of Agriculture Committee on Quality Assurance. His areas of research include development economics and rural development policy; poverty, food security, nutrition, and health economics; impact evaluation and sustainable food systems and climate change, adaptation, and resilience. He has supervised 30 Master’s and 8 Doctoral students. He has published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed outlets and has won several research grants. He was formerly a Visiting Research Fellow and scholar at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany; the University of Pavia, Italy; Nordic Africa Institute (NAI), Uppsala, Sweden; African Studies Centre (ASC), Leiden, Netherlands and University of Passau, Germany.