Awudu Abdulai

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Awudu Abdulai
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NationalityGhanaian
OccupationAgricultural & development economist
AwardsAAEA Fellow, AAAE Fellow & IAAE Honorary Life Member

Awudu Abdulai (born in 1958) is a Ghanaian [1] agricultural and development economist, and professor at the Institute of Food Economics and Consumption Studies, University of Kiel, Germany. [2] His research and teaching focus on issues related to poverty alleviation, food and nutrition security, consumer behavior, and sustainable agriculture.

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Education and career

Abdulai earned his BSc degree in agricultural economics from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, and both his MSc and PhD degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich) in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He received the prestigious outstanding PhD Dissertation Award from ETH-Zurich in 1994.[ citation needed ]

After spending some time as a visiting scholar at Iowa State University in 1997-1998 and Yale University in 2002, Abdulai became an Assistant Professor for Food Economics at the ETH-Zurich, before moving to the University of Kiel in 2004, where he is currently Professor of Food Economics and Food Policy, and Director of the Institute of Food Economics and Consumption Studies. He was invited Cargill Visiting professor at the Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University [3] (2010–2011). [4] He served as Editor of Agricultural Economics from 2012 to 2022. [5] He has also served as Associate Editor and editorial board member of many reputable journals including the American journal of Agricultural Economics and Food Policy. [6]

In 2017, Abdulai became the chair of the Graduate Committee of the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences at the University of Kiel. [2]   He was recently appointed as member of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Fellows Selection Committee in 2021 for the five-year period 2021–2026. [7]

Abdulai has consulted for several international institutions, including the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), World Food Program (WFP), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Bank of Ghana.[ citation needed ]

Awards

In 2006, Awudu received the Teaching Excellence Award of the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences at the University of Kiel. [2]  In 2015, he was awarded the African-German Network Association Annual Prize for Research and Development. Awudu was inducted as Distinguished Fellow of the African Association of Agricultural Economists in 2010, and was the first black scholar to be named Fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) in 2020. [8] He was also named an Honorary Life Member (Fellow) of the International Association of Agricultural Economists [9] in 2021. [10]

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  2. 1 2 3 "Prof. Dr. Awudu Abdulai". Foodecon. Retrieved 2021-11-16.
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  4. ↑ University, © Stanford; Stanford; Complaints, California 94305 Copyright. "Awudu Abdulai". fse.fsi.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ "Agricultural Economics". Wiley Online Library. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1574-0862 . Retrieved 2021-11-16.
  6. ↑ "Editorial Board - Food Policy - Journal - Elsevier". www.journals.elsevier.com. Retrieved 2021-11-16.
  7. ↑ "AAEA Committees | Agricultural & Applied Economics Association". www.aaea.org. Retrieved 2021-11-16.
  8. ↑ "Awudu Abdulai | Agricultural & Applied Economics Association". www.aaea.org. Retrieved 2021-11-16.
  9. ↑ "Home". iaae-agecon.org.
  10. ↑ "Honorary Life Members 2021 Bio Announcement". Archived from the original on 2021-08-10.
  11. ↑ Abdulai, Awudu; Delgado, Christopher L. (1999). "Determinants of Nonfarm Earnings of Farm-Based Husbands and Wives in Northern Ghana". American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 81 (1): 117–130. doi:10.2307/1244455. ISSN   1467-8276. JSTOR   1244455. S2CID   19811654.
  12. ↑ Abdulai, Awudu; Huffman, Wallace (2000). "Structural Adjustment and Economic Efficiency of Rice Farmers in Northern Ghana". Economic Development and Cultural Change. 48 (3): 503–520. doi:10.1086/452608. ISSN   0013-0079. S2CID   7639126.
  13. ↑ Abdulai, Awudu (2000). "Spatial price transmission and asymmetry in the Ghanaian maize market". Journal of Development Economics. 63 (2): 327–349. doi:10.1016/S0304-3878(00)00115-2. ISSN   0304-3878.
  14. ↑ Abdulai, Awudu; Barrett, Christopher B.; Hoddinott, John (2005). "Does food aid Really have disincentive effects? New evidence from sub-Saharan Africa". World Development. 33 (10): 1689–1704. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.04.014. ISSN   0305-750X.
  15. ↑ Abdulai, Awudu; Owusu, Victor; Goetz, Renan (2011). "Land tenure differences and investment in land improvement measures: Theoretical and empirical analyses". Journal of Development Economics. 96 (1): 66–78. doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2010.08.002. ISSN   0304-3878.
  16. ↑ Abdulai, A.; Huffman, W. (2014). "The Adoption and Impact of Soil and Water Conservation Technology: An Endogenous Switching Regression Application". Land Economics. 90 (1): 26–43. doi:10.3368/le.90.1.26. ISSN   0023-7639. S2CID   153365637.
  17. ↑ Bello, Muhammad; Abdulai, Awudu (2016). "Impact of Ex-Ante Hypothetical Bias Mitigation Methods on Attribute Non-Attendance in Choice Experiments". American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 98 (5): 1486–1506. doi:10.1093/ajae/aav098. ISSN   1467-8276.
  18. ↑ Abdul Mumin, Yazeed; Abdulai, Awudu (2021). "Social networks, adoption of improved variety and household welfare: evidence from Ghana". European Review of Agricultural Economics. 49 (jbab007): 1–32. doi: 10.1093/erae/jbab007 . ISSN   0165-1587.
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