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| October 1 1981-31 March 2003 |
Professor of Agricultural Economics |
| Took early voluntary retirement effective
March 31 2003 to set up F. S. Idachaba
Foundation for Research and Scholarship |
The F. S. Idachaba Foundation for Research and Scholarship seeks innovative
ways for conducting and supporting research and scholarship for Nigerian
and African agricultural and general economic development by promoting individual
capacity building for Nigerian and African researchers and scholars below
the age of 40 years. |
| August 2000 – 30 April 2003 |
Principal Research Fellow and Head, International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) Africa Regional Office, c/o IITA, Ibadan |
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August 1998 – August 2000 |
Deputy Director General |
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April 1996 – July 1998 |
Senior Research Fellow |
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January 1988 – December 1995 |
Pioneer Vice Chancellor |
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1984 - 1986 |
Guest Lecturer |
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1982 - 1984 |
Guest Lecturer |
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1977 - 1978 |
Visiting Researcher |
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1977 - 1981 |
Reader (Associate Professor) |
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1975 - 1977 |
Senior Lecturer |
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1974 - 1975 |
Lecturer I |
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1972 - 1974 |
Lecturer II |
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October 1972 – December 1972 |
Assistant Professor |
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OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE |
| External Consultancies |
| 2003 |
Consultant to the International Institute of
Tropical Agriculture (IITA) USAID
study on Constraints to Private Sector Investment in Nigerian Agriculture |
| September 1998 |
Senior Consultant, African Development Bank,
Abidjan |
| July 1997 – October 1997 |
Chairman, External Program and Management Review
(EPMR) Team, Special Program on African Agricultural Research (SPAAR),
The World Bank, Washington, DC, U.S.A. |
| December 1996 |
Chairman, External Review Panel on Nigeria’s
18 National Agricultural Research Institutes under the auspices of World
Bank – assisted National Agricultural Research Project (NARP) |
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July 1992 |
Consultant to SPAAR. The World Bank, Washington,
DC |
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March 1991 |
Consultant, Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Expert Consultation on the
Role of Universities in National Agricultural Research Systems in Developing
Countries, FAO, Rome |
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1988 - 1989 |
Consultant to European Centre for Development
Policy Management (ECDPM), Maastricht, The Netherlands |
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October 1987 – January 1988 |
FAO Consultant Agricultural Planning Economist
and Team Leader, Joint FAO/Liberia Mission to Produce Action Programme
for Liberia’s Green Revolution aimed at moving the country towards national
food self-reliance and self-sufficiency |
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September 1987 |
Consultant, International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD) Consultation on Impact of Structural Adjustment Programmes
on Sub-Saharan African Agriculture |
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August 1987 |
Appointed World Bank Consultant for 15 months
to work on Speed of Adjustment of Agriculture to Structural Adjustment
in Sub- Saharan Africa |
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July 1987 |
International Fund for Agricultural Development(IFAD)
Expert Consultation in Cadenabbia, Italy on the Impact of Structural
Adjustment Programs on small-scale farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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1987 |
Consultant to the World Bank on Grain Storage
Schemes |
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1986 - 1987 |
Consultant to the World Bank on the MADIA Study |
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1985 - 1986 |
Consultant to the World Bank
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High Level Seminar
on Agricultural Policy and its Relationship to Food Policy in Sub-Saharan
Africa, West Berlin, March 1985
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Seminar on Agricultural
Pricing and Trade Policy Seminar in Sub-Saharan Africa, Royal Tropical
Institute, Amsterdam, April 1986
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Grain Storage and National
food Security June 1986
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Policy Issues in Sustainability,
January 1987
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Federal-State Relations
in Nigerian Agriculture, April 1987 |
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1986 |
FAO Expert Consultation on Food and Nutrition,
FAO, Rome |
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1985 |
Expert Consultation for the International Development
Research Centre (IDRC) to Review Impact Study of the Consultative Group
on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). |
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1986 – 1989 |
Consultant to the United Nations University Tokyo and the World Institute or Development Economics Research (WIDER), Helsinki on The political Economy of Hunger that resulted in publication edited by A. Sen, Nobel Laureate |
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1981 – 1982 |
Consultant to the Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations (FAO): Agricultural Research Institutes in Nigeria |
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1980 |
Chairman/Team Leader, World Bank – Nigeria Joint
Food Strategies Mission that produced The Green Revolution: A Food Production Plan for Nigeria. Mission
work resulted in
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Establishment of State-wide
Area-based Acceleration Development Area Projects in Borno, Gongola
and Imo States, covering 56 Local Government Areas jointly funded by
the Federal and State Governments
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Establishment of Federal
Agricultural Co-ordinating Unit (FACU) with four Regional Offices in
Benin, Kaduna, Jos and Enugu and headquarters at Ibadan
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Nation-wide coverage
of Agricultural Development Projects (ADPs)
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Adoption of National
Agricultural Policy with the small-scale farmer as the centrepiece |
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