Shadrack Jacob Mbapila (PhD)
Shadrack Jacob Mbapila (PhD) is an Agricultural Economist at the Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI). His areas of specialization are institutional economics (transaction costs), social networks, value chain, governance, marketing, business development, agribusiness, entrepreneurship, and economics. He has researched organic food systems, marketing, value chains, and several economic analyses in agriculture.
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Has participated in several projects including; Productivity and Growth in Organic Value Chain (ProGrOV), Adoption Pathways Project under CIMMYT, Sustainable Intensification of Maize and Legumes Cropping Systems for Food Security in Eastern and Southern Africa (SIMLESA) under CIMMYT, and was a PI for Promotion of Drought Tolerant Maize Varieties for Africa (DTMA) in the Northern part of Tanzania.
He has several publications in agriculture and a peer reviewer for some journals such as Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (Cambridge University Press), INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing’s (SAGE publishers), and Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology.
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