Emily Ouma

Emily Ouma

Senior Scientist, Agricultural Economist and Country Representative Uganda

Emily Ouma is a Senior Scientist, Agricultural Economist working with the People Policies and Institutions Program at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), based in Uganda. She holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Kiel in Germany. She has 15 years postdoctoral experience working on dairy, piggery and poultry value chains research and innovations in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her main research areas and fields of interest include smallholder farm level competitiveness, agri-food value chain analysis, ex-ante and ex-post impact analyses of agricultural technologies and institutional innovations, development economics, consumer economics, human nutrition innovations, and environmental and resource economics.

 

My Blog Posts

ILRI News

Drivers and risk factors of Rift Valley fever in Uganda: Findings from a preliminary survey

My Projects

BUILD

Boosting Uganda’s investment in livestock development

Livestock

Programme for climate-smart livestock systems

Enhancing milk quality and consumption for improved income and nutrition in Rwanda

Enhancing milk quality and consumption for improved income and nutrition in Rwanda

More pork by and for the poor: Catalyzing emerging smallholder pig value chains in Uganda for food security and poverty reduction

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My Publications

PAFIE- BSFL Inception Workshop Report July 2025- Limuru, Kenya.pdf.jpg

Platform for Alternative Feed Ingredients Evaluation (PAFIE) - Black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) in Kenya

  • Ouma, Emily A.
Co-creationBusinessModel.pdf.jpg

Co-creation of a business model for delivery of herd health products and services to pig farmers

  • Oba, Peter
SAAFs Herd health VC assessments Report northern Uganda.pdf.jpg

A systematic review of herd health research in the pig value chain in mid-northern Uganda: Constraints, gaps and opportunities

  • Oba, Peter
Characterizing_market_ FE_ASFs_Uganda.pdf.jpg

Characterizing the market food environment for animal sourced foods in Uganda

  • Omosa, Esther
OutcomeReport_SAAF_Gender_Uganda.pdf.jpg

Behavior change in five communities in Uganda: Farmers adopt improved practices, agripreneurs find new markets, community members accept women providing pig artificial insemination and regulators enable women aggregators

  • Achandi, Esther L.
Root_causes_pigMarket_system_blockages.pdf.jpg

Root causes of blockages in pig market systems in Central Uganda: Application of causal loop diagrams

  • Ouma, Emily A.
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