TEAM MEMBER
Dr Atanda Oladejo
Dr Atanda Oladejo
Obafemi Awolowo University
About
Dr Atanda S. Oladejo is a researcher and senior lecturer in the Department of Crop Production and Protection, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile–Ife, Nigeria; and a former research fellow at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan – Nigeria. He has over ten years of research experience in African countries, India, and the United States.The goal of the project is to increase youth engagement in African indigenous vegetables and fruits production and consumption.
His career goal is to solve problems militating against food and nutrition security via cutting-edge research in plant breeding and genetics.
He is an awardee of Nuffic Fellowship, Wageningen University, the Netherland on plant genetic resources and seeds held in Chennai and Jaipur, India, 2014; and a visiting scientist at Utah State University, Logan, UT-84320, United States, 2022.
He is also the principal investigator of the Crop Trust, Bonn, Germany funded project on Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihood and Development (BOLD) on the duplicate regeneration of local legumes and indigenous vegetables in Nigeria: project targeting conservation of genetic diversity of food legumes tailored achieving food and nutrition security.
Dr Oladejo holds PhD (Plant Breeding Genetics) from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and he has published many research reports and academic journal articles.