Dr Oluwafunmiso Adeola Olajide is an award-winning Agricultural Economist who has contributed significant knowledge to agricultural development in Africa and Europe through quality research in social and economic issues of concern in these areas. As a leader in the area of socio economic policy research, she provides far reaching policy prescriptions for national and international development. A DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholar, she received her Doctorate degree from the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany, and holds her Master’s and Bachelor’s in Agricultural Economics from University of Ibadan. She is a member of the Africa Association of Agricultural Economists and its Nigerian counterpart Nigerian Association of Agricultural Economist; and a lecturer at the University of Ibadan. She is also a visiting researcher at the University of Hohenheim’s Institute of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences in the Tropics and Sub-Tropics, Stuttgart, Germany.