Dr. Olutosin Ademola OTEKUNRIN is an Agricultural Economist (academic researcher) from Nigeria. He holds a B. Agric. in Agricultural Economics from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Nigeria. He obtained his M.Sc and Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) in Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Education from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, and National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) respectively. He holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Nigeria. His field of interest includes Agricultural Economics; Agribusiness; Food Security and Nutrition; Agricultural Marketing; Agricultural Education; Farm Management.

Dr. Olutosin Otekunrin holds a position of Senior Research Associate at Innovation Lab for Policy Leadership in Agriculture and Food Security (PiLAF), University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He's a young and aspiring academic that has published in some internationally recognized journals like Global Food Security, Data in Brief, Sustainability, Agriculture (MDPI), Scientific African, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Methods, Nutrition & Food Science (Emerald), Child Indicators Research (Springer Nature), Scientific African among others. He also serves as reviewer to journals such as Social Indicators Research, British Food Journal, Geo Journal, African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, PLOS ONE, Forest and Society journal, Cogent Economics and Finance, Cogent Food and Agriculture, Environment, Development and Sustainability (Springer), Frontiers in Public Health, Frontiers in Environmental Science, Frontiers in Animal, Frontiers in Nutrition, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Frontiers in Nutrition, among others.

Dr. Otekunrin serves as

✅ Editorial board member, Discover Global Society (25 July, 2025)

✅ Guest Associate Editor, Frontiers in Nutrition & Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (1 April & June 12, 2025)

✅ Associate Editor, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (12 March 2025)

✅ Associate Editor, Frontiers in Nutrition (12 March 2025)

✅ Guest Editor, BMC Nutrition (November, 2024)

✅ Editorial Board Member, BMC Agriculture (August, 2024)

✅ Editorial Board Member, Discover Agriculture (June, 2024)

✅ Editorial Board member, BMC Public Health (July, 2023)

✅ Review Editor, Frontiers in Public Health (January, 2023)

✅ Academic Editor, PLOS ONE (January, 2023)

✅ Section Editor, Caraka Tani: Journal of Sustainable Agriculture (March, 2020)

Dr. Otekunrin is a Web of Science (Publons) Academic graduate and Academy mentor (successfully mentored 16 WoS Academy graduates from different parts of the world) and has reviewed 1, 148 manuscripts for over 150 local and international (Scopus/WoS indexed) peer review journals. He has 735 verified editor records as of 2 September 2025

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Dr. Otekunrin received six awards on 29 May 2025 from Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Awards 2025 for Springer Nature Editorial Contribution Award and Author Service Award 2025, both for for each of the three BMC journals namely BMC Nutrition; BMC Public Health; and BMC Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition.