麻豆传媒

Margaret Adesugba is a Percy Research Fellow at the Centre for Rural Economy, School of Natural and Environmental Sciences (SNES, 麻豆传媒. She completed her PhD in Agriculture, Food and Rural Development at 麻豆传媒 as a Commonwealth Scholar. She also has an MSc with distinction in Agricultural Development Economics from the University of Reading, UK as a Diageo Scholar and a BSc. in Agriculture with a 1^st class from Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria as a British American Tobacco Scholar.

She worked at the International Food Policy Research (IFPRI) on several projects including two research projects and reports on the determinants of youth employment and career aspirations and on the determinants of agricultural finance in Nigeria funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) formerly the Department for International Development (DFID). She also worked with Prof. Sally Shortall and Dr. Hannah Budge on women entrepreneurs in farm businesses in England report for the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Available .

Her research interest involves the use of mixed methods on several research areas in the rural economy and in agriculture, including Net Zero trade-offs, gender issues, agri-food systems in developing economies, livelihoods and rural innovations, food security, community participation and resilience to flood and drought. She is currently interested in how gender and social embeddedness impact the uptake of Net Zero practices among farmers in the UK and sub-Saharan Africa including the trade-offs that they face as a result. She is also interested in how fortitude developed during disasters like flood and drought influence food, social systems and transformation in developing economies. As a Percy Research Fellow, she will be working independently and also collaboratively with other researchers in the UK and sub-Saharan Africa. 

Qualifications

Ph.D. Agriculture, Food and Rural Development | 麻豆传媒, UK. 2021.

MSc. Agricultural Development Economics (Distinction) | University of Reading, UK. 2012.

BSc. Agriculture (First Class) | Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria. 2010.

Research Profile

Research interests include but are not limited to;

Food Systems

Net Zero Trade-offs

Gender and Social Transformation

Livelihoods, resilience and disasters (flood and drought) in developing economies

Agriculture and rural development issues in developing economies

Mixed Methods Research

NES2106 - Qualitative Research Methods

• Articles

  • Adesugba, M, Mavrotas, G. Agricultural finance constraints in the Nigerian Agricultural Sector. African Finance Journal 2020, 22, 1-21.
  • Olomola, SA, Adesugba, MA. Transforming Nigerian agriculture in the context of a green economy: Financing challenges, opportunities, and mechanisms. Nigerian Journal of Agricultural Economics (NJAE) 2015, 5, 1-11.
  • Adesugba, MA. Economic Value of Livestock Loss on Pastoralists’ Livelihood: An Analysis of Ethiopian Pastoralist Households. Journal of Research in Agriculture and Animal Science 2014, 2(7), 01-12. In Preparation.

• Book Chapters

  • Shortall S, Adesugba M. . In: Sachs, CE; Jensen, L; Castellanos, P; and Sexsmith, K, ed. Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture. London: Routledge, 2021, pp.287-297.
  • Adesugba M, Oughton E, Shortall S. . In: Sachs, CE; Jensen, L; Castellanos, P; Sexsmith, K, ed. Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture. London: Routledge, 2021, pp.315-325.
  • Adesugba, MA. Supporting female smallholders. In: Robinson M. and Klauser, D, ed. The Sustainable Intensification of smallholder farming systems. London: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, 2020, pp.25.

• Online Publications

  • Adesugba, MA. Gender, rural farmers and markets: COVID-19 challenge to doing gender, agriculture and food systems research and development work in Africa. 2020. Available at: https://sites.psu.edu/geareblog/2020/11/30/gender-rural-farmers-and-markets-covid-19-challenge/.
  • Gyimah-Brempong, K, Adesugba, M. Agricultural aid and food security in Africa. Paper to be presented at the ASSA Meetings, San Francisco, January 3-5, 2016, 2015.

• Report

  • Shortall S, Budge H, Adesugba M. . England: Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2022.

• Working Papers

  • Adesugba, MA, Edeh, H, Mavrotas, G. Child nutritional status, welfare, and health in Nigerian households. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1776 2018.
  • Adesugba, MA, Mavrotas, G. Youth employment, agricultural transformation, and rural labor dynamics in Nigeria. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1579 2016.
  • Adesugba, MA, Mavrotas, G. Delving deeper into the agricultural transformation and youth employment nexus: The Nigerian case. 2016.
  • Takeshima, H, Adesugba, MA. Irrigation potential in Nigeria: Some perspectives based on factor endowments, tropical nature, and patterns in favorable areas. 2014.