Mahmud Yesuf Assoc Professor Department of Economics

Bio: Professor Yesuf’s expertise are development economics, natural resource and environmental economics, and applied micro-econometrics. His research focuses on the interface between economics and natural resource management issues in the context of smallholder agriculture in developing countries. These include smallholder agricultural behavior and decisions, sustainable land management, agricultural technology adoption, food security issues, behavioral economics and experiments in the context of smallholder agriculture, environmental valuation, climate change economics, and gender studies. He has an international teaching and research experience working on various projects with the World Bank and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Africa. He has taught classes in principles of Microeconomics, Environmental Economics, Survey of African Economies, Senior Research Seminar, Economic Development, and Applied Econometrics.

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