Research Work

  • The Impact of Pest Shocks on Charcoal Production and Deforestation in Zambia

    Job market paper.

  • The Effects of Invasive Pests on Food Security: Evidence from Zambia

    Under review.

  • Rural Households’ Participation in Charcoal Production in Zambia: Does Agricultural Productivity Play a Role?

  • Potential Impacts of Transportation Infrastructure Improvements to Maize and Cassava Supply Chains in Zambia

  • Leveraging Ground Sensor Networks to Evaluate Satellite-Based Land Surface Phenology in Smallholder Farming Systems

    Under review - Remote sensing of the environment.

  • Weather Extremes Drive Crop Diversification in Smallholder Agriculture in Zambia

    Under review - Climate Risk Management.

  • What Causes Negative Returns to Storage in the Maize Markets?

  • Monitoring Maize Yield Variability over Space and Time with Unsupervised Satellite Imagery Features

  • Does providing efficient transportation improve the price knowledge among rural households? Evidence from Malawi - with Prof. Rebecca Thornton (Baylor University) and Prof. Kathy Baylis (University of California at Santa Barbara)

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

August 2019 - To date
Doctor of Philosophy, Agricultural and Applied Economics

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

August 2017 - May 2019
Master of Science, Agricultural and Applied Economics