OUR FELLOWS
Lydia Mosunmola Adeleke was born into a large family in Benin City in southern Nigeria, where her father ensured that everyone got a good education. Her bachelor’s and master’s degrees are in economicsrelated Agricultural Technology, but for her PhD she focused on Resource Economics, specializing in Fisheries. As part of her doctoral studies, Adeleke was awarded a visiting scholar fellowship at the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
For my PhD work I looked at how artisanal fisher folk—that is, small-scale fishers—are adapting to climate change in Ondo State, which has Nigeria’s longest coastline at 108 kilometers.
Field of Research
The concept of capturebased aquaculture is that fish migrate during some seasons, so we capture them and feed them in a confined area right in the sea, until they reach table size, then they are good for food.