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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Rapid Reconnaissance of the Fish Value Chain in Nigeria
Published on May 22, 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
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PRCI Southeast Asia workshop for developing cassava value chain analysis proposals
Published on March 21, 2022
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In new Nature publication, Belton argues that freshwater aquaculture is underrepresented in research
Published on March 10, 2022
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Aquaculture will continue to depend more on land than sea
Published on March 9, 2022