Ben Belton
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Ben Belton is a fixed-term Associate Professor, International Development, in the Food Security Group at AFRE. He is an interdisciplinary social scientist with more than 15 years’ experience living and working in South and Southeast Asia, in countries including Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Cambodia, and Malaysia. Ben is a leading global scholar on aquaculture and fisheries development. His research interests are broad, spanning value chains, food systems, livelihoods, rural transformation, agrarian change, and their links to food and nutrition security, poverty, wellbeing, and the environment. He has published more than 80 peer reviewed journal articles on these subjects, using a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods to develop an evidence base for effective policy actions. In addition to his role with AFRE, Ben holds joint appointment as Research Associate at the International Food Policy Research Institute, South Asia Region, and is based fulltime in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Related Work
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FSG Celebrates 50th Anniversary with Eminent Speakers and Panelists Focused on the Future
Published on September 24, 2024
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Double jeopardy: COVID-19, coup d'état and poverty in Myanmar
Published on June 27, 2023
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Rapid Reconnaissance of the Fish Value Chain in Nigeria
Published on May 22, 2023
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COVID-19 disruptions and pivoting in SMEs in the hidden middle of Kenya’s potato and fish value chains
Published on April 19, 2023
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Performance of Sentinel-1 and 2 imagery in detecting aquaculture waterbodies in Bangladesh
Published on November 1, 2022
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Hybrid livelihoods: Maize and agrarian transformation in Southeast Asia's uplands
Published on October 3, 2022
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Research methods for value chain analysis
Published on March 30, 2022