[1] She was the first female professor in any agricultural-related field in Nigeria, and the first in agricultural economics in Africa.
[3] She is married to Bayo Adekanye, a professor of political science and chairman of the governing council of Chrisland University.
[4] Organizations and agencies with which she has previously consulted at the international level include ECA, ILO, FAO, IFAD, UNDP, UNICEF, UNIFEM, and Ford Foundation.
[5] According to Google Scholar, her most cited paper is a 1988 4-year study titled "Women and Rural Poverty: Some Considerations From Nigeria", which focuses on how women engaging in agriculture in Southwestern Nigeria are not fairly incorporated in the system, thereby causing them to lag behind men in terms of development.
In 1984, she conducted another study that cuts across women in the main ethnic groups in Nigeria.