About Me

Dr. Amin Mugera is an agricultural and agribusiness specialist at the School of Agricultural and Environment, University of Western Australia. Mugera has extensive research, teaching and training experience in production economics and finance, agribusiness, and development economics.

His research has focused on the economics of innovation and growth in the farming sector and strategic management of agribusiness firms along the food value chain. He has investigated the profitability, productivity and competitiveness of agri-firm enterprises, management of risks associated with people in agricultural firms, drivers of farm labor productivity growth, and effect of debt structure on farm productivity.

His research in development economics has focused on micro-credit constraints facing women in rural developing countries, adoption of agricultural technologies and its welfare effects, and poverty and vulnerability to poverty.

Mugera’s research is empirical in nature with a strong policy focus. His research has a global perspective cutting across sub-Saharan Africa, North America, Southern Asia, and Middle East in countries like Uganda, Ghana, United States, Australia, Pakistan, Nepal, SriLanka, Iraq, Syria and China.

He holds a double MS in Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness from Michigan State University and a PhD (Economics, with specialization in Agricultural Economics) from Kansas State University.

He is an Associate-Editor for The Rangeland Journal.