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Dr.Bisrat Haile GebrekidanPhD, MSc, MEcon Postdoctoral Researcher Chair of Economic and Agricultural Policy Nußallee 21 Phone: +49-228-73 2323 |
Research Interests:
- Agent Based models
- Technology adoption decision
- Integrative modeling of complex socio-ecological systems
- General equilibrium models
- Machine learning and data Science
Research Project
PhD Dissertation
Academic Education
| PhD, University of Bonn, Agricultural Economics | |
| Masters of Science, University of Bonn and Swedish University of Agricultural sciences, Bonn and Uppsala(Germany and Sweden), Very Good-(1.2). Specialized in Agriculture, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis | |
| 2010 - 2012 | Magister Economicae , The University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, Cum Laude.
Specialized in Development Economics |
| 2010 - 2011 | MA , University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany,
Specialized in Development Management |
| 2004 - 2007 | Bachelor of Arts, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia, GPA – 3.8–Avery Great Distinction Graduate.
Specialized in Economics |
Employments:
| Postdoctoral Researcher, Chair of Economic and Agricultural Policy, Institute for Food and Resource Economics (ILR), University of Bonn | |
| Research Analyst, Vision Development Consultants, Cape Town, South Africa | |
| Project Associate (INTERN), Catholic Welfare and Development (CWD) , Cape Town, South Africa | |
| Economics Lecturer, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia |
Publications and conference contributions:
Selected PublicationsGebrekidan, B. H., Heckelei, T., & Rasch, S. (2020). Characterizing Farmers and Farming System in Kilombero Valley Floodplain, Tanzania. Sustainability, 12(17), 7114. https://doi.org/10.1111/cjag.12271
Gebrekidan, B. H., Heckelei, T., & Rasch, S. (2021). Modeling Farmers Intensification Decisions with a Bayesian Belief Network: The case of the Kilombero Floodplain in Tanzania.(Revise and Resubmit)
Tabe-Ojong, M., Gebrekidan, B.H, Rukundo, E. , Jan Börner, J. ,Heckelei, T.(2022). Coping with locusts and COVID-19 in rural Africa: An analysis of household-level coping strategies to food insecurity in Kenya, Namibia and Tanzania.Agricultural Economics, 1– 20. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12709
Tabe-Ojong, M., Rukundo, E. , Gebrekidan, B.H.(2022). COVID-19 and food (in)security in Africa: Review of the emerging empirical evidence IFPRI Discussion Paper 2121. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.135904
Tabe-Ojong, M.,Jourdain C.L., Gebrekidan, B.H, Hippolyte D.A.(2022). Technology Adoption and Smallholder Commercialization: Panel Evidence from West Africa.(Under Review)
Work in progressCao, A.N.Q., Gebrekidan, B.H., Heckelei, T., Robe, M.A. (2022). County-level USDA Crop Progress and Condition data, machine learning, and commodity market surprises.(Manuscript under preparation)
Gebrekidan, B.H., Tabe-Ojong, M.,Heckelei, T., et al., (2021). The relevance of shocks for the formation of aspirations: a rural household level analysis across Kenya, Namibia, Zambia and Tanzania.(Manuscript under preparation)
Gebrekidan, B.H., Rukundo, E. , Tabe-Ojong, M., et al., (2021). Willingness to pay for COVID-19 vaccine in Africa: Evidence from a Cross-sectional Online Study in Seven Countries .(Manuscript under preparation)
Rukundo, E., Gebrekidan, B.H., Tabe-Ojong, M., et al., (2021). Willingness to accept COVID-19 vaccination in low-income countries: cross-sectional evidence from seven African countries.(Manuscript under preparation)
Gebrekidan, B.H., Hartmann, G. , Dannenberg, P., Heckelei, T.(2021). Intensification trajectories amongst smallholder farmers in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor: Big promises and their delivery.(Manuscript under preparation)
Gebrekidan, B. H., Heckelei, T., & Rasch, S. (2020). Migration, access to infrastructure and the pattern of land use and intensification in Kilombero Valley: An Agent-Based Modeling approach (Draft Manuscript)
Other ReportsGebrekidan, B. H., Heckelei, T., & Rasch, S. (2021). WetABM: A spatially explicit agent-based model for Kilombero valley floodplain. ODD+D protocol.PDF||HTML
Gebrekidan, B. H., Heckelei, T., & Rasch, S. (2020). WetABM: A spatially explicit agent-based model for Kilombero valley floodplain. Model code documentation. PDF||HTML
Gebrekidan, B. H., Heckelei, T., & Rasch, S. (2020). Characterizing Farmers and Farming System in Kilombero Valley Floodplain. Survey Report
Gebrekidan, B. H., Miguel A., Samuel K. (2020). R for AfRica! Training on Analyzing And Documenting Data With R. Report
Conference ContributionsGebrekidan, B. H., Rasch, S., and Heckelei, T. (2018): WetABM: An agent based model of land use and intensification in Kilombero valley floodplain. ILR, Bonn.
Gebrekidan, B. H., Rasch, S., and Heckelei, T. (2018): Farmers Intensification Decisions in Kilombero Valley Floodplain: A Bayesian Belief Network Approach. International Conference of Agricultural Economists , Vancover Canada.
Gebrekidan, B. H., Rasch, S., and Heckelei, T. (2017): Farmers Intensification Decisions in Kilombero Valley Floodplain: A Bayesian Belief Network Approach . Paper presented at WATER MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP The Kilombero case: from Catchment to Consumer. October 9-10, 2017.
Gebrekidan, B. H., Rasch, S., and Heckelei, T. (2016): Farmers Intensification Decisions Under Fragile and Unpredictable Environment in Kilombero Valley Floodplain: A Bayesian Belief Network Approach . Paper presented at the 5th international conference on sustainable Development, Colombia University,New York, USA, September 18-20, 2017.
Gebrekidan, B. H., Heckelei, T., and Rasch, S.(2016): The Dynamics of Land-use Change in Kilombero Valley Floodplain: Characterization of Agents . Poster presentation at Tropentag- ‘Solidarity in a competing world – fair use of resources’, Vienna, Austria, September 18 – 21, 2016.
Last updated: Wednesday, June 01, 2022