Sidiqat Adeyemi Aderinoye-Abdulwahab is a Professor of Rural Livelihoods and Development in the Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. Her research focuses on Gendered Rural Livelihoods and Vulnerabilities, Coping and Adaptation to Climate Change Impact, Rural Community Leadership, Policy, and Advocacy.
She served as an Agricultural Officer at the Jigawa Agricultural Rural Development Authority (JARDA), Dutse, Jigawa State, during her NYSC. She taught at Army Day Secondary School, Giginya Barracks in Sokoto before joining the University of Ilorin as an Assistant Lecturer in 2008.
She holds a Certificate for Supervising Doctoral Candidates from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. She is a member of several professional bodies, including the Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria (AESON), the Nigeria Forum for Agricultural and Advisory Services (NIFAAS), and the Rural Sociological Society of Nigeria (RuSAN).
Professor Aderinoye-Abdulwahab has published more than eighty journal articles, conference proceedings, chapters in textbooks, policy briefs, and technical reports. She has attended various conferences both nationally and internationally.
She is the University of Ilorin’s first Professor of Rural Livelihoods and its first female Professor of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development. Sidiqat Adeyemi Aderinoye-Abdulwahab is also the first Professor to emerge from the 2003 Alumni of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ilorin, and the first M.Sc. graduate of Agricultural Extension from Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, having achieved this in 2008.
Professor Aderinoye-Abdulwahab enjoys reading, writing, walking, and travelling. She is married and blessed with children.
