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Ronald Walusimbi

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School of Business Administration and Economics
Environmental Economics
Seminarstraße 33-34
49074 Osnabrück

Room: 04/108
Tel.: +49 541 969-6447
ronald.walusimbi@uni-osnabrueck.de

As a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Environmental Economics, I am working on understanding behavior and the role of inner factors in telecoupled settings facing systemic risks involving heterogeneous actors. I am particularly interested in understanding how participatory methods can be adapted to allow upscaling to situations where actors are geographically distant.

I aim at developing participatory interventions to combat deforestation, water scarcity, and/or eutrophication in the agricultural transition.

Against this objective, I will develop online tools for these participatory processes. As a methodological approach, I will carry out an online economic lab experiment assessing behavior with and without such processes, connecting students in two different countries and carrying out quantitative analysis motivated by econometrics.

I have an M.Sc. in Agricultural and Applied Economics and a BSc in Agriculture from Makerere University in Uganda. I am also an Erasmus+ Framework 2022 fellow at Justus Liebig University in Germany, a fellow of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) and a scholar of the BHEARD Innovation Scholars Program through the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) at Makerere University. As a PhD candidate within the Department of Environmental Economics at UOS, I am part of the DFG-funded Research Training Group “Ecological Regime Shifts and Systemic Risk in Coupled Social-Ecological Systems-ECORISK” and a member of the Institute of Environmental Systems Research (IUSF). I also hold membership with the Uganda Agricultural Economics Association (UAEA) at Makerere University. I have worked as a research assistant on experimental economics research projects at Makerere University in the areas of climate change adaptation and consumer behavior. I have additionally worked as an agricultural officer for more than 10 years advising smallholder farmers and an agricultural project coordinator deploying participatory approaches for project evaluation with beneficiaries.

Research interests

  • Food Security
  • Climate Change
  • Technology Adoption
  • Sustainable Agriculture and Land Degradation
  • Behavioral Economics, Environmental Economics and Natural Resource
  • Agricultural and Rural Development
  • Participatory Approaches

Methods

  • Quantitative Methods: baseline, mid-line, and end-line surveys, economic experiments, content analysis, secondary data analysis and econometric modelling
  • Qualitative Methods: FGDs, KIIs, and Laddering approach
  • Participatory Research Methods