Mywish Maredia
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Professor
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
Phone:
517-353-6602
Email:
maredia@msu.edu
Degrees:
Ph.D.: Michigan State University
M.A.: University of Bombay
B.A.: University of Bombay
CV:
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Mywish Maredia is fixed-term professor of Development Economics in the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University, and Interim Co-Director of the department’s Food Security Group. Her research has focused on the economic impacts of agricultural R&D, technology adoption, farmer willingness to pay for quality inputs, seed system transformation, agrifood system transformation with a focus on diet change and its implications on nutrition, and the economics of science and technology policies. She has led several research initiatives in Africa, Asia and Central America involving field experiments and extensive data collection. Her research on impact evaluation has focused on a wide range of topics, including land titling, nutrition and value chain, information and communication technologies (ICT), scaling up adoption of agricultural technologies, and the assessment of technology transfer models (extension).
Mywish has worked as a consultant with many international organizations, served as the Director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy from 2016-2020, Associate Director of the USAID funded Bean/Cowpea and Dry Grain Pulses CRSP (later renamed as the Legume Innovation Lab) from 2000-2009, and as a member of the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment of the CGIAR’s Science Council from 2006-2011. She was the recipient of the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in 1994 from the American Agricultural Economics Association (now known as Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
She is working on several grant funded research initiatives on a variety of topics and geographical regions (See Dr. Maredia’s CV, google scholar profile, and ORCID ID).
Research Interests
- Methods and approaches to evaluate impacts of increasing productivity, food security, nutrition enhancement and poverty reduction strategies
- Producer and consumer preference elicitation using experimental methods
- Economics of agricultural R&D and the adoption of improved technologies
- Seed system transformation issues and policies in developing countries
- Testing new methods of data collection in developing countries
Geographic Focus
Numerous countries in sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Burkina Faso), Asia (Myanmar, India, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Central Asia), and Latin America (e.g., Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, Colombia).
Mentoring
- Currently major professor for 9 AFRE graduate students. See Dr. Maredia’s CV (link above) for details on current and past advisees.
- View Dr. Maredia’s advisees theses and dissertations.
- Also currently working with many researchers from Africa, Asia and Central America on collaborative research projects.
Related Work
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MSU profs to develop a regional climate smart agriculture hub in Thailand
Published on August 1, 2023
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Farmer demand for certified legume seeds and the viability of farmer seed enterprises: Evidence from Myanmar
Published on December 27, 2022
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Excess demand amid quality misperceptions: the case for low-cost seed quality signalling strategies
Published on September 17, 2022
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Rural Bangladeshi consumers’ (un)willingness to pay for low-milled rice: Implications for zinc biofortification
Published on September 15, 2022
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Rural Bangladeshi consumers’ (un)willingness to pay for low-milled rice: Implications for zinc biofortification
Published on September 15, 2022
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Preferences for pandemic recovery policies: Perspectives of Myanmar agri-food system participants
Published on September 6, 2022
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ROLE OF PLURALISTIC EXTENSION SERVICE PROVIDERS IN FISHERIES DEVELOPMENT OF RAJASTHAN
Published on July 20, 2022
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