Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung

Date of birth
15th May, 1975

Place of birth
Akure, Nigeria

Undergraduate studies

  • 1996-2001: Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria, Department of Agricultural Economics & Extension (B.Tech. in Agricultural Economics & Extension)
  • 2003-2005: Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria, Department of Agricultural Economics & Extension (M.Tech. in Agricultural Economics)



2006 - 2010:
PhD student with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) stipendium at the chair of Agricultural Marketing Analysis (Prof. Dr. B. Brümmer), Department für Agrarökonomie and Rurale Entwicklung, Georg-August-Universität –Göttingen, Germany.

Research interest

  • Productivity and efficiency analysis
  • Household´s income and expenditure analysis
  • Agricultural marketing analysis (Price transmission analysis)



Research Project

  • Analysis of Farm-Level Efficiency, Production Risk and Risk Preferences for Cassava Farmers in South-West Nigeria

    Cassava´s multiple uses have facilitated greater utilization in Nigeria. It is central to the rural economy in the country. With the competing demand for cassava from both domestic and international markets (mostly from China, South Africa, United States of America, and European Union), the crucial question is whether the production potential is fully utilized and capable of meeting the growing demand in the country and internationally. And to answer this question is to investigate effect of optimal input choice on cassava output supplies in Nigeria. Because, studies have shown that optimal input utilizations at farm level have significant implication for output supplies (Pope and Kramer (1979), Love and Buccola (1991)). Likewise other studies have found out that agricultural input demands depend on a number of factors, key of which include production risk, production efficiency of the farmer, and farmer’s ability to take risk (Kumbhakar (2002), Serra et al. (2008)). Therefore, there is need to carry out a joint investigation of production risk, farm-level efficiency, and risk preferences with respect to input demand function in reference to cassava farmers in Nigeria, which is the motivation behind this study. Based on this, the empirical production efficiency framework will be generalized to accommodate production risk and the farmer’s attitude towards risk, since pronouncement of economists are often based on models such as the traditional stochastic frontier models which assumes perfect certainty in estimating farm level efficiency. These pronouncements in most cases do not survive the incorporation of uncertainty which will have implications for agricultural policy aimed at improving cassava production in Nigeria.



Publications

  • OGUNDARI, K., T. T. AMOS and S.O. OJO (2010): Estimating confidence intervals for technical efficiency of rainfed rice farms in Nigeria, in: China Agricultural Economics Review. Vol.2, No.1: Pp 107-118.

  • OGUNDARI, K. and S. O. OJO (2009): An examination of income generation potential of aquaculture farms in alleviating household poverty: Estimation and policy implications from Nigeria, in: Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic sciences, Vol.9 (1): 39-45.

  • OLUWADARE D.A., P.B. IMOUDU and K. OGUNDARI (2009): Structure and performance of palm oil marketing in Ondo state, Nigeria, in: Journal of Agriculture and Social Science, Vol.5, No.1-2: 23-26.

  • ALADEJIMOKUN, O.A. and K.OGUNDARI (2008): Optimum period and determinants of replacing aged cocoa trees in Nigeria: an economic analysis, in: The Empirical Economics letters Vol. 7(2): pp 153-159.

  • AMAZA, P. S. and K. OGUNDARI (2008): An investigation of factors that influence the technical efficiency of soybean production in the Guinea savannas of Nigeria, in: Journal of Food, Agriculture & Environment Vol.6 (1): 92- 96.


  • OGUNDARI, K. and O. ODEFADEDUN (2007): Comparative Analysis of Resource-Productivity and Technical Efficiency of Cocoa Producers: A study of farmers under Training & Visit and Farmers Field School extension system in Nigeria, in: Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture. Germany .Vol.46, No.3: 205-219.

  • OGUNDARI, K and S.O.OJO (2007): Economic Efficiency of small scale food crop production in Nigeria: A stochastic frontier approach, in: Journal of Social Sciences (JSS), Delhi India. Volume 14(2): 123-130.

  • OGUNDARI, K. and S. O. OJO (2006): An Examination of Technical, Economic and Allocative Efficiency of Small Farms: The Case Study of Cassava Farmers in Osun State of Nigeria, in: Journal of Central European Agriculture, Croatia, Vol.7, No.3 (423-432).

  • OGUNDARI, K. (2006): Determinants of Profit Efficiency among Small Scale Rice Farmers in Nigeria: A Profit Function Approach, in: Research Journal of Applied Science.Pakistan.1 (1-4):116-122.

  • OGUNDARI, K. and S. O. OJO (2005): Determinants of Technical Efficiency in mixed Crop Food Production in Nigeria: A Stochastic Parametric Approach, in: East Africa Journal of Rural Development. Uganda. Vol. 21, No.1. pp. 15-22.



Conference Contribution

  • OGUNDARI, K. (2009): A meta-analysis of technical efficiency studies in Nigerian agriculture. Paper presented at the International Association of Agricultural Economists 2009 Conference, August, 16-22, Beijing, China.

  • OGUNDARI, K and O. AKINBOGUN (2009): Modeling production efficiency with risk: a case study of aquaculture farms in Nigeria, Paper presented at 5th Bi-annual North American Association of Fisheries Economists, 17th-20th May 2009, Newport University of Rhode Island, USA.

  • OGUNDARI, K. (2008): An examination of income generation potential of Aquaculture production in alleviating household poverty: Estimation and policy implication from Nigeria. Paper presented at the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET) conference, July 22 -25, Nha Trang, Vietnam.

  • OGUNDARI, K., T. T. AMOS and S.O. OJO (2008): Estimating Confidence Intervals for Technical Efficiency of Rainfed Rice Farms in Nigeria. In Osakwe, et al. (eds.). Paper presented and appeared in the proceeding of 42nd Annual Conference of Agricultural Society of Nigeria -"Agricultural Development in Nigeria: Issues and Challenges", 19th-23rd Oct 2008, Abakaleke, Nigeria, pp.346-350.

  • AMAZA, P. S. and K. OGUNDARI (2007): Production Efficiency of Soybean Farmers in the Guinea Savannas of West Africa: Empirical Evidence from Nigeria. Poster presented and appeared in the proceedings of 16th International Farm Management Association Congress "A Vibrant Rural Economy - The Challenge for Balance", 15 - 20 July, University College Cork, Ireland.

  • OGUNDARI, K. (2006): Determinants of Profit Efficiency among small scale rice farmers in Nigeria: A Profit Function approach. Poster paper prepared for presentation at the International Association of Agricultural Economists Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, August 12-18, 2006.

  • OGUNDARI, K and S.O. OJO (2005): The Determinants of Technical Efficiency in Mixed-Crop Food Production in Nigeria: A Stochastic Parametric Approach. Proceeding of 1st Annual Conference on Developments in Agriculture and Biological Sciences, 27th April 2005. Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria.



Work experiences

  • 2001-2002: Planning, Budgeting and Monitoring Unit, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria (National Youth Service mandatory one year primary assignment)
    Position: Data Analyst (Computation of staff establishment data).
  • 2003-2006: St. Mattiahs’ Anglican High School, Akure, Ondo state, Nigeria.
    Position: Teaches Agricultural Science at all senior classes.
  • 2007: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria.
    Position: Research Associate under project PROSAB in IITA-Maiduguri station, Nigeria.



Languages

  • Yoruba (mother tongue)
  • English (native)



Other interests
Music, farming and Traveling