Ben Belton
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Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
Phone:
+95 925-107-2892
Email:
beltonbe@msu.edu
Degrees:
Ph.D., University of Stirling (UK)
M.Sc., University of Stirling (UK)
B.Sc., (Hons.) University of Nottingham (UK)
Publications on Google Scholar
Ben Belton is a fixed-term Associate Professor at AFRE and a rural sociologist who has worked extensively in South and Southeast Asia for more than a decade, in countries including Bangladesh, Thailand and Vietnam. He joined MSU in 2015, and is based full-time in Burma as Deputy Chief of Party of the USAID funded Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy: Burma where he leads project research activities on agricultural commodity value chains, livelihoods and the rural economy. Ben is an expert on aquaculture and capture fisheries development and value chains, and their links to food and nutrition security, poverty, social wellbeing and the environment. Current focal areas of research in Burma include agricultural mechanization, migration, and rural transformation.
Related Work
COVID-19's impacts on incomes and food consumption in urban and rural areas are surprisingly similar: Evidence from five African countries
Published on June 1, 2022
Research methods for value chain analysis
Published on March 30, 2022
PRCI Southeast Asia workshop for developing cassava value chain analysis proposals
Published on March 21, 2022
In new Nature publication, Belton argues that freshwater aquaculture is underrepresented in research
Published on March 10, 2022
Aquaculture will continue to depend more on land than sea
Published on March 9, 2022
PRCI Southeast Asia workshop “The Export Potential of Laos Agri-Food to the EU Market”
Published on March 3, 2022
Presence of microplastics in two common dried marine fish species from Bangladesh
Published on March 1, 2022
PIVOTING IN NIGERIA’S FISH AND POULTRY VALUE CHAINS IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19 POLICIES AND IMPACTS
Published on January 24, 2022
The impact of COVID-19 and other shocks on Agri Food SMEs along the poultry and fish value chains in Borno State
Published on January 17, 2022