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Dr Bolanle Oyindamola Adebayo’s award.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When farmers participate in crop breeding as citizen scientists, their knowledge and experience can shape which varieties are advanced and released. But participation can also strengthen farmers\u2019 own knowledge, agency and leadership\u2014capacities that can, in turn, make breeding and variety dissemination more effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This reinforcing relationship is at the heart of the research of Dr Bolanle Oyindamola Adebayo, whose Virginia Tech dissertation, Exploring Participation in Citizen Science for Leadership Identity Development and Food Systems Leadership: A Case Study of Tricot<\/em><\/u><\/em><\/a>, received the 2026 Association of Leadership Educators Conference Outstanding Dissertation Award. The Association of Leadership Educators (ALE) is a professional association bringing together scholars, educators, and practitioners to advance leadership education through research and practice. The award therefore recognizes the dissertation within the broader professional field of leadership education, placing research conducted through IITA<\/u><\/a>\u2019s tricot work within a wider community of leadership scholars, educators, and practitioners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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