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Waliyat Olaide Oloyede is a Lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. She is a PhD student in Agricultural Economics at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She holds an MSc. degree in Development Management (Public Economic Management & Finance) from Birmingham, United Kingdom. She also received a research grant from Africa Rice/National Cereals Research Institute (NCRI) to pursue another Masters in Agricultural Economics from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. Her career goals are to carry out relevant research and be one of the primary policy drivers for sustainable food systems. Hence, her research interest includes agricultural economics, development economics, food and nutrition policy, resource, and environmental economics. She is passionate about econometric data analysis and has independently prepared and published several journal articles by journal outlets both locally and internationally. She has presented some of her papers at international conferences including the Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Society.