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 Projects
My Publications
A systematic review of herd health research in the pig value chain in mid-northern Uganda: Constraints, gaps and opportunities
Platform for Alternative Feed Ingredients Evaluation (PAFIE) - Black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) in Kenya
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
