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