FAKOYA ADETOUN KAFAYAT

Fisheries

At the Fisheries department office

Appointment on Visitation important

Topic: Sustainability Of Fisheries -based Livelihoods

Description: Ecological and social issues including gender affecting small-scale fisheries-based livelihoods and aquaculture are at the heart of my research. I leverage on adaptive learning, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary studies as well as mixed methods approach to synthesize new knowledge and spur innovative ideas. I have worked at local case site studies and conducted systematic reviews at national level. My work has been mainly in Nigeria though I have recently embarked on a dialogue project in Kenya and hope to expand my research collaborations to other parts of the globe. With a broad background in fisheries, my earliest works contributed knowledge to the food and feeding habits in the snakehead fish, Channa obscura. In my doctoral work, I successfully demonstrated application of the size-frequency distributions to infer pattern of habitat use and ontogenetic shifts in the Gorean snapper, Lutjanus, goreensis. Comparison of the presence/absence of juvenile and adult fishes in juvenile versus marine habitats facilitated classification of estuarine dependency in the species. I have also provided complementary information on the well-being and reproductive habits of the Gorean snapper in Nigerian coastal waters. In aquaculture, I presented a paper on the developmental trends viz-a viz challenges and opportunities in the sector and as a follow up identified research priorities for the growth in the sector. In addition, I was able to make a compilation of seaweeds resources in Nigeria s coastal environment and suggested ways by which they can be harnessed and utilized for commercial production and culture. My research has become more interdisciplinary. I have contributed to works of other colleagues and gained unquantifiable experience in project management and research from collaborative partnerships as a principal investigator in the Gendered Design in STEAM project, a co-principal investigator with Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries Section GAFS ; Illuminating Hidden Harvests: Nigeria small-scale fisheries with FAO/Duke University / WorldFish, and Seafood Safety Certification in Nigeria with WorldFish.

#	Certificate	School	Year
1.	Ph.D (Fisheries)	Lagos State University	2015

FAKOYA KAFAYAT is a Associate Professor / Reader at the Department of Fisheries

FAKOYA has a Ph.D in Fisheries from Lagos State University