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

Food Security, Environments, Nutrition: Structured Evidence (FoodSENSE) Framework application in Mpigi District, Central Uganda

  • Caulfield, Mark
  • Omosa, Esther
  • Hammond, Jim
  • Achandi, Esther, L.
  • Ahumuza, Ronnie
  • Spray, Andrea
  • Dominguez-Salas, Paula
  • Ouma, Emily A.

Confirmation of a hyperendemic focus of porcine cysticercosis in Northern Uganda: Prevalence and risk factor analysis

  • Ngwili, Nicholas
  • Ahimbisibwe, Salaviriuse
  • Korir, Max
  • Bole, Stephen
  • Kankya, C.
  • Kinyera, A.
  • Avudraga, S.V.
  • Okeny, R.S.
  • Kenny, R.O.
  • Ouma, Emily A.
  • Dohoo, I.
  • Thomas, Lian F.

Unlocking Black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) potential through innovations to accelerate production

  • Ouma, Emily A.
  • Lukuyu, Ben A.

Platform for Alternative Feed Ingredients Evaluation (PAFIE)—Black soldier fly larvae (BSFL)

  • Ouma, Emily A.
  • Lukuyu, Ben A.
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Gender roles in ruminant disease management in Uganda: Implications for the control of peste des petits ruminants and Rift Valley fever

  • Namatovu, Jane
  • Lule, Peter
  • Asindu, Marsy
  • Campbell, Zoë A.
  • Tumusiime, Dan
  • Kiara, Henry K.
  • Bett, Bernard K.
  • Roesel, Kristina
  • Ouma, Emily A.

Social behaviour change communication in nutrition and social norms results in improved community health systems, and household attitudes, and behavior

  • Ahmed, Hardi
  • Ahumuza, Ronnie
  • Molina, Teresa
  • Ngalombi, Sarah
  • Ouma, Emily A.
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