Olubunmi Abayomi Omotesho
@unilorin.edu.ng
Assistant Vice Chancellor
Professor, Faculty of Agriculture
University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
Olubunmi Abayomi OMOTESHO, is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ilorin with 39 years university teaching, research and administrative experience.
He has served as Sub-Dean, Head of Department, Chairman Library and Publications Committee, Dean of Agriculture, Dean of Student Affairs, Director Academic Planning and he is the current Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic). His research interest spans Agricultural Resource Economics and Food Security.
He has to his credit over 150 publications in reputable outlets spanning journals, edited conference proceedings and chapters in books. He has successfully supervised 50 Masters dissertations, 30 MBAs and 22 Ph.D theses. He has consulted for the World Bank, Africa Development Bank, International Food and Policy Research Institute, Federal and State Governments. Professor Omotesho is a Fellow of the Nigerian Association of Evaluators.
EDUCATION
I hold three degrees from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. B.Sc. Agricultural Economics (1979); M.Sc. Agricultural Economics (1981); Ph.D. Agricultural Economics (1991).
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Marketing, Multidisciplinary
Scopus Publications
Scopus Publications
Toyin B. Ajibade, Mukhtar A. Yusuf, Sijuwade A. Adebayo, Uswat T. Adeyemi, and Olubunmi A. Omotesho
ResearchersLinks Ltd
S. Danilola, O. Omotesho and J. Animashaun
ISEKI Food Association
The increase in relative level of education and the growing middle-class income earners in Nigeria have made packaged food items attractive to consumers. These foods provide handy, nutritious and convenient food for consumers; however, they also come with public health concerns. From a policy perspective, food labelling can gauge consumers’ response to the safety conditions of packaged food. However, understanding consumers’ awareness and the use of food label information has attracted little research attention in many developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In this study, we investigate consumers’ awareness of the use of food safety labels in Lagos state, Nigeria. We used primary data collected using pretested structured questionnaire from 220 food shoppers who bought pre-packaged foods . A two-stage sampling technique was used to select the respondents. Consumers’ awareness and use of food safety information was revealed using descriptive statistics ; Ordinal Regression Analysis was used to examine the socioeconomic factors determining the frequency of reading food safety labels . The study therefore recommends that there should be continuous awareness campaigns on the importance of food labels in ensuring safety and food producers should make sure their food labels are legible.
Ibukun Joyce Ogwu, Olubunmi Abayomi Omotesho, and Abdulazeez Muhammad-Lawal
IGI Global
The production of cereals, tubers, and vegetables largely depends on the application of organic and inorganic fertilizers to offset their nutrients requirement. In this chapter, the authors identify different soil fertility management practices the maize farmers are using and examine the economic benefits of such practices in maize production. To complete the study, 237 maize farmers across Kogi and Kwara States, Nigeria were investigated. Descriptive statistics, gross margin, and multinomial logit tools were used to analyze the data. The results show that majority of the maize farmers (41.40%) use only inorganic material. Labour employed in the application of fertility materials, distance to the source of fertility materials, the quantity of seed planted, educational attainment, and gender of the maize farmer were the determinants of the use of fertility management practices relative to integrated soil fertility management (ISFM). The analyses of the results show that the use of ISFM for maize production is the most profitable method with a profitability ratio of 2.29.
O. A. Omotesho, A. Falola, and S. O. Awolu
Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management
O. Omotesho and Abraham Falola
BRILL
R.O. Babatunde ., O.A. Omotesho ., and O.S. Sholotan .
Science Alert
In recent times, the global focus has been on food security and poverty alleviation. This is in response to increasing food insecurity and poverty in the world. The incidences of food insecurity and poverty are particularly devastating in the developing countries and a lot of resources are being channelled towards programmes aimed at eradicating food insecurity and poverty by various international organizations and government of the developing nations. In terms of food insecurity, 852 million people worldwide are still chronically undernourished. In Africa, an estimated 200 million or 27.4% of the people on the continent are undernourished. This figure is expected to increase to 30% by 2010. In Nigeria, over 40% of the estimated population of 133 million people are food insecure. To achieve the Millennium Development Goals of halving the proportion of hungry people by 2015, it was projected that 22 million people must achieve food security every year. In consonance of the above, this study examined the socio-economic characteristics and determinants of the food security status of rural farming households in Kwara State of Nigeria. The study utilized a three-stage random sampling technique to obtain a sample of 94 farm households and a cross sectional data in year 2005. Descriptive analysis was carried out to describe the socio-economic characteristics of the households. Econometric tools were used to determine factors affecting the food security status of household. Using the recommended calorie required approach; the study revealed that 36% and 64% of the households were food secure and food insecure respectively. The Shortfall/Surplus index showed that the food secure households exceeded the recommended calorie intake by 42%, while the food insecure households fell short of the recommended calorie intake by 38%. A logit regression model made up of eight regressors was specified. Household income, household size, educational status of household’s head and quantity of food obtained from own production were found to determine the food security status of farming households in the study area. It is concluded that the design of food security strategies should be multi-dimensional such that would focus on and address the identified determinants in order to achieve the target set by the Millennium Development Goals.
A. A. Ladele, K. Joseph, O. A. Omotesho, and T. O. Ijaiya
Informa UK Limited
Sensory quality attributes, consumption pattern and preference for some selected Nigerian meat types (beef, goat meat, mutton, grasscutter (Thryonomys swinderianus raptorum), African giant rat (Cricetomys gambianus--water house) were investigated. Sensory quality scores were carried out using a panel of thirty carefully screened consumers, based on a 9-point hedonic scale: While consumer consumption pattern and preference were assessed through a field survey of 120 randomly selected respondents using a well structured questionnaire. It was found that beef was the most consumed meat followed by goat meat, then mutton, grasscutter and lastly African giant rat. Consumption of grasscutter was constrained by availability and cost. Goat meat was the most preferred, followed by beef, grasscutter, mutton and African giant rat. In laboratory sensory rating of the meat types, grasscutter had the greatest acceptability followed by goat meat, mutton, African giant rat and lastly beef. The result showed that grasscutter was the most acceptable because of its good meat colour, flavour tenderness and juiciness. It is recommended that more research effort be placed on domestication, breeding and management of grasscutter and African giant rat so as to remove the availability and high cost constraints militating against the utilization of these mammals.