Browsing by Author "Kolade, Oluwaseun"
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Beyond the farm gate: can social capital help small-holders to overcome constraints in the agricultural value chain?
Kolade, Oluwaseun; Mafimisebi, Oluwasoye; Aluko, Oluwakayode (Book chapter)The agricultural sector is typically the biggest employer of labour in most African countries, yet it is also typically the most under-capitalised and most neglected by policy makers. While a number of studies have highlighted ... -
Does Entrepreneurship Skill Mediate Entrepreneurial Intention in a Turbulent Environment?
Kolade, Oluwaseun (Conference)Scholarly research on entrepreneurship education (EE) sometimes fails to grapple with the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship education provision, and the impact of this on intention studies. Entrepreneurship education can ... -
Entrepreneurship education service and socio-economic development in sub-Saharan Africa
Anosike, Paschal; Kolade, Oluwaseun; Pervaiz, Ahmed (Book chapter)This chapter draws from two recent education projects in Africa to provide an analysis and implications of entrepreneurship education service provision as a peace-building effort, and a pathway to raising the human capital ... -
Farmers’ mobilisation of social capital for beneficial uptake of technological innovations in southwest Nigeria
Kolade, Oluwaseun; Harpham, Trudy (Article)Social capital has been identified as an important factor influencing successful uptake of technological innovations among small-scale, rural farmers in developing countries. This study draws on descriptive statistics and ... -
Impact of Boko Haram activities in the Lake Chad region of Africa
Adam, Hurso; Kolade, Oluwaseun; Kibreab, G. (Conference)The Boko Haram insurgency has remained the single major security threat to peace, stability and development in the Lake Basin and its fringes. The countries sharing common boundaries along the Lake Chad continue to grapple ... -
Impact of climate governance in increasing resilience among cyclone sidr and aila affected people in bangladesh
Islam, M.Z.; Kolade, Oluwaseun; Kibreab, G. (Conference)This paper discusses climate governance policies in Bangladesh and investigates to what extent are those policies contributing to increasing resilience among cyclone Sidr and Aila affected coastal people of Bangladesh. ... -
Impact of cooperative membership on farmers' uptake of technological innovations in Southwest Nigeria
Kolade, Oluwaseun; Harpham, Trudy (Article)The underutilization of agriculture in Nigeria with attendant low yield per hectare is generally attributed to lack of innovation to cope with the challenges of climate change and land degradation. In this study, using ... -
Impact of social capital on preparedness and response to Boko Haram insurgency in Northeast Nigeria
Kolade, Oluwaseun; Kibreab, G.; Adam, Hurso (Conference)Boko Haram insurgency has precipitated humanitarian tragedy on a scale comparable to the Nigerian civil war (1967-1970) and arguably the worst of any man made or natural disaster in Nigeria's history. The Internal Displacement ... -
Institutional barriers to successful innovations: perceptions of rural farmers and key stakeholders in southwest Nigeria
Kolade, Oluwaseun; Harpham, Trudy; Gibreab, G (Article)Diffusion studies in sub-Saharan Africa have typically focused on the impact of traditional adoption factors on uptake of technological innovations. This study draws on semi-structured interviews of rural farmers and ... -
Is microfinance for women empowerment a zero sum game?
Salia, Samuel; Hussain, Javed; Tingbani, Ishmael; Kolade, Oluwaseun (Conference)Microfinance interventions are often hailed to have significant positive consequences for women empowerment. However, in the last decade, the significance of microfinance has been contested due to unintended consequences ... -
Is women empowerment a zero sum game? Unintended consequences of microfinance for women’s empowerment in Ghana
Salia, Samuel; Hussain, Javed; Tingbani, Ishmael; Kolade, Oluwaseun (Article)Purpose: Against the background of growing concerns that development interventions can sometimes be a zero sum game, the purpose of this paper is to examine the unintended consequences of microfinance for women empowerment ... -
A new framework for understanding and resolving farmers-herdsmen conflict in Nigeria
Kolade, Oluwaseun; Ibrahim, Garba (Conference)Herdsmen-farmers' relations have had a big impact on West African history, leading to revolutionary changes in the 19th-century when some old regimes were upended. In the subsequent two centuries specifically in Northern ... -
Palm kernel waste management through composting and crop production
Kolade, Oluwaseun; Shridhar, M.K.C.; Coker, A.O.; Adeoye, G.O. (Article)Palm kernel wastes produced from small and medium- scale industries pose a serious environmental problem in Nigeria. A portion of these wastes is used as feed supple- ments for livestock but most are disposed off by burning ... -
Spiritual capital, entrepreneurial resilience and firm-level performance in turbulent environments
Kolade, Oluwaseun; Egbetokun, Abiodun (Conference)Increasingly, businesses in the 21st century have to grapple with the challenges of operating in turbulent environments characterised by market volatility, political instability, and terrorism These challenges are relevant ... -
Teach a man to fish : a case study of entrepreneurship education in conflict-ridden Maiduguri, Nigeria
Kolade, Oluwaseun; Anosike, P. (Conference)The abduction in April 2014 of more than 250 school girls in Chibok, a small town near Maiduguri Nigeria, drew international attention to the scale of terror unleashed by the dreaded Boko Haram in the region. Stakeholders ... -
Technological constraints to firm performance: the moderating effects of firm linkages and cooperation
Kolade, Oluwaseun; Obembe, Demola; Salia, Samuel (Article)Manufacturing and services SMEs in Africa face challenges and constraints exacerbated by ineffectual government policies, environmental turbulence and the near-absence of institutional support. This study investigates if ... -
Transferring Entrepreneurship Education knowledge in a conflict environment : Insights from Boko Haram Heartland
Anoisike, Paschal; Kolade, Oluwaseun; Pervaiz, Ahmed; Wang, Yong (Conference)In this paper we use interview data to demonstrate the efficacy of training as a mechanism of knowledge transfer of entrepreneurship education within a conflict environment. In particular, we found that entrepreneurship ... -
Universal basic education in Nigeria: can non-state actors make a difference?
Kolade, Oluwaseun (Article)Against the backdrop of falling standards and failing government policies in the education sector in Nigeria, this paper investigates how and why non-state actors can make significant impact towards the achievement of ...