Olusegun Fadare

Dr. Olusegun (Segun) Fadare is a Lecturer in Development Economics in the Livelihoods and Institutions Department at NRI. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, and an MSc and a PhD in Agricultural and Food Economics from the University of Reading. He conducts interdisciplinary research, primarily focusing on conflict and fragility, child well-being, food and nutrition security, agriculture and rural livelihoods, interpersonal violence, and governance and institutions.

Following his doctoral research on the impact of conflict on agricultural livelihoods and resilience, he joined NRI in October 2023 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, contributing to the ESRC-funded project Causal Pathways from Violent Conflict to Violence Against Children: Evidence from Multi-Country Secondary Data, led by Professor Tilman Brück. His research examines how political violence affects children and households across Africa by combining large-scale household surveys with geospatial conflict data to identify the causal pathways linking conflict to child well-being.

Prior to joining NRI, Segun was an Associate Lecturer in the Agri-Food Economics and Marketing Department, University of Reading, where he also held a Research Assistant role on several UKRI-funded projects, contributing to research on agriculture-nutrition in India and Nepal, and computational text analysis of soybean supply chain policies in Brazil under the Trade Hub Initiative. He was also previously a Research Analyst at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Nigeria for six years, where he led major research projects, coordinated fieldwork, supervised IFPRI-Nigeria interns and local collaborators, and was involved in knowledge dissemination and capacity building.

He has also previously served as a co-investigator in collaborative research under the Agricultural and Food Policy Analysis for Nutrition Outcomes in Africa (AFPON) Project, supported by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2018.

Through his research, Segun aims to generate rigorous evidence that informs policies to improve the livelihoods, health, and well-being of vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries.