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Abubakar began his full-time doctoral degree at the University of Greenwich in 2020. He Previously obtained his BSc. Sociology and M.Sc. in Sociology with specialisation in Development from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.
After his studies, Abubakar had a compulsory one-year National Youth Service Scheme where he teaches in a secondary school in Kaduna State-Nigeria. After the NYSC, he took a volunteering job with World Health Organisation (WHO) as a ward focal person, saddled with the responsibility of ensuring routine immunisation, searching for AFP cases, and organising enlightenment campaign for the rural communities on the need for immunisation.
Abubakar is currently teaching at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where he served in several academic and administrative committees.
He is interested in vulnerability studies, livelihoods, adaptation, and climate change.
Professor of Development Anthropology
Senior Lecturer in Climate Change, State Fragility and Conflict, and UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow
Aliyu S. Barau
Comparative Vulnerability Assessment for Strengthening Adaptive Capacity and Food Security of Rural Communities in Kebbi State, Northern Nigeria
The overall interest of this research is to strengthen the adaptive capacity and food security of rural communities in Northern Nigeria through comparative vulnerability assessment of the dryland farmers, pastoralists and artisanal fisherfolk in Kebbi State, with a view to manage the effect of climate change on their livelihoods and their general wellbeing. The research will also establish a model to integrate the indigenous knowledge (adaptation strategies), government policies, national /local and international interventions as well as institutional arrangements on the future of adaptive capacity of strategies of climate change on food security and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa.
In 2016 he received the award of Best Lecturer Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
In 2020 he received the award of Best Performing Board Member, Benignant Business Group.
Abubakar began his full-time doctoral degree at the University of Greenwich in 2020. He Previously obtained his BSc. Sociology and M.Sc. in Sociology with specialisation in Development from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.
After his studies, Abubakar had a compulsory one-year National Youth Service Scheme where he teaches in a secondary school in Kaduna State-Nigeria. After the NYSC, he took a volunteering job with World Health Organisation (WHO) as a ward focal person, saddled with the responsibility of ensuring routine immunisation, searching for AFP cases, and organising enlightenment campaign for the rural communities on the need for immunisation.
Abubakar is currently teaching at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where he served in several academic and administrative committees.
He is interested in vulnerability studies, livelihoods, adaptation, and climate change.
Professor of Development Anthropology
Senior Lecturer in Climate Change, State Fragility and Conflict, and UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow
Aliyu S. Barau
Comparative Vulnerability Assessment for Strengthening Adaptive Capacity and Food Security of Rural Communities in Kebbi State, Northern Nigeria
The overall interest of this research is to strengthen the adaptive capacity and food security of rural communities in Northern Nigeria through comparative vulnerability assessment of the dryland farmers, pastoralists and artisanal fisherfolk in Kebbi State, with a view to manage the effect of climate change on their livelihoods and their general wellbeing. The research will also establish a model to integrate the indigenous knowledge (adaptation strategies), government policies, national /local and international interventions as well as institutional arrangements on the future of adaptive capacity of strategies of climate change on food security and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa.
In 2016 he received the award of Best Lecturer Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
In 2020 he received the award of Best Performing Board Member, Benignant Business Group.
