Nathaniel Olutegbe
| Education | PhD degree in Rural Sociology, University of Ibadan |
| STAAARS+ Research | Resilience to Covid-19 and Insecurity Shocks: Evidence from Nigeria |
| CV | PDF File |
| Contact | siji004u@yahoo.com |
Nathaniel Siji Olutegbe lectures in the Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His educational background is in Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology, where he earned a PhD degree (Rural Sociology option) of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 2017. Nathaniel has, in the past held consultancy positions with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, (IITA) Ibadan, Nigeria on Gender Norms and Agency Studies in Nigeria for both maize and cassava. He has also been involved in a number of socioeconomic impact studies of different development interventions in Nigeria. His research interest is rural socioecological systems, with emphases on variables such as environmental, social and economic stressors, climate change, resilience, rural livelihood, insecurity, conflict, food insecurity, coping mechanisms, vulnerability, well-being, among others. Nathaniel was a co-investigator in the Climate Change, Rural Livelihoods and Ecosystem Nexus: Forest Communities in Agro-ecological zones of Nigeria, a project funded by the African Development Bank and Japan Trust Fund, under the Education for Sustainable Development in Africa (ESDA) in 2018. He is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University under the auspices of the Structural Transformation of African and Asian Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAAARS+) fellowship, 2022/2023 cohort.
