Trees on farms in Africa. Myth, fact, or simply forgotten?

Luc Christiaense

Luc is lead agricultural economist in the World Bank’s Jobs Group. He has written extensively on food security, structural transformation and urbanization in Africa and East Asia. He leads the “Agriculture in Africa – Telling Myths from Facts” initiative, co-led the 2016 World Bank Africa Region flagship report: Poverty in a Rising Africa, and was a core member of the team that produced the World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development. He holds a PhD in agricultural economics from Cornell University.

Daniel C. Miller

Dan is Assistant Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dan’s research and teaching focus on international environmental politics and policy. He is especially interested in understanding the socio-economic and ecological impacts of forest and on-farm tree conservation and management over the long-term. Prior to joining the faculty at Illinois, he was Senior Forestry Specialist at the Program on Forests (PROFOR) at the World Bank. Dan completed his Ph.D. in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan and earned undergraduate and Master’s degrees in Political Science at the University of Illinois.

Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mora

Juan Carlos is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University Pompeu Fabra. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Université Libre de Bruxelles in 2016. He received the European Doctorate mention for his stay at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra during the three years during his Ph.D. He completed his dissertation on the micro-level impact of civil war and illegal activities in developing countries under the supervision of Professor Philip Verwimp (ULB) and Marta Reynal-Querol (Pompeu Fabra University). His primary research interests are in Development Economics, Political Economics, Agricultural Economics and Micro-econometrics.