The research activities at AFRIGIST focus the following areas:

• Environmental / Disaster Management;
• Geospatial Data Infrastructure;
• Land Administration and e-Governance;
• Land use/ Land cover and Climate Change

The following funded researches have been concluded:

• Indigenous Knowledge and Adaptation Strategies to Coastal Flooding in Nigeria – (Research grant from START, 2011 – 2013).
• Comparative Analysis of Land Use Pattern in Sudano-Guinean Transition in the Central region of Benin Republic and Central Western Nigeria – (Research grant from CODESRIA, 2013).

Climate Change and Integration of Climate Resilient Agriculture in Coastal Nigeria – (Research grant from Ford Foundation for Conservation, 2014).