Dr Babatunde Abidoye is a senior lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics.
With a PhD in economics, Dr Abidoye is involved in various international development issues and global projects. He has worked with several international agencies, including the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the European Commission, to aid understanding of how policies can be used to alleviate poverty in Africa and Asia. He provides support to various UNDP projects, including climate change adaptation projects such as the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) for least developed countries (LDCs) and the Ecosystem Based Adaptation (EBA) Project in Nepal, Peru and Uganda.
Closely linked to his focus on poverty alleviation is his research and teaching interest in using advances in econometrics and quantitative techniques to analyse problems related to economic development and welfare. Econometrics is the application of statistical and mathematical techniques in solving problems as well as in testing and demonstrating theories, for example in the food policy and commodity markets area.
Dr Abidoye looks at the role that international commodity prices and changes in technology, such as genetically modified crops in South Africa, play in influencing domestic prices. In the area of environmental economics, he works towards an understanding of how farmers and government can adequately adapt to climate change by evaluating different investments and strategies proposed by farmers and government.
