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Full Name:Aida Cuthbert Isinika Phone / Mobile:+255754470807
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Personal statement
Aida Cuthbert Isinika is a Professor of Agricultural Economics at the Institute of Continuing Education (ICE), Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania. The ICE is responsible for coordinating outreach and continuing education programmes across the university. She has been involved in teaching, production economics at the undergraduate and post-graduate level under the School of Agricultural Economics and Business studies at Sokoine University of Agriculture. This includes supervising students at both levels in their research activities. Earlier in her carrier she also worked in the field as a District Agricultural Officer and in the recent past (2008 – 2010) she coordinated an Agricultural Programme for value chain development under Oxfam (GB) Tanzania. She has also supervised many post-graduate and undergraduate students
Academic and Professional Qualifications
Education University / Institute Year of accomplishment Any other relevant information
Ph.D. University of Kentucky, Agricultural Economics
M.Sc. University of Kentucky, Agricultural Economics
B. Sc. University of Dar-es-Salaam, Agriculture general
Research focus (interest) and Specialization
Her research interests have been on resource use efficiency, rural development, gender and land tenure and related issues. From her various works, she has published journal articles and chapters in books. Professor Isinika has been a co-editor of three books, and at different times between 2000 and 2016 she led the editorial team of the Journal for Continuing Education and Extension that is hosted by the Institute of Continuing Education, Sokoine University of Agriculture.
Teaching
Module Code Module Title Role
AEA 201 Production economics Instructor
AEA 604/CMAE 505 Advanced production Economics
Instructor
Working experience and major Achievement:
A major achievement
• Prof Isinika has been the country lead of the country lead of the Africa in Transition (AFRINT) research project, a panel study (2002 – 2018) addressing issues pertaining to food self-sufficiency, the role of markets and institutions, agricultural transformation and gender. The study has collected four cross-sections of data, published three books and several journal articles
• She is currently the country lead of the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) research project focusing on agricultural commercialisation and implications for inclusion, food security, equity and sustainability, implemented under the wider Future Agricultures programme
Research publication and Books
Recent publication include;
1. Aida Isinika, Yefred Myenzi and Elibariki Msuya (2019). When customary land tenure meets land markets: Sustainability of customary land tenure in Tanzania. In Opira Otto, Aida Isinika and Herman Musahara (ed) Land Tenure Dynamics in East Africa: Changing practices and rights to land. Upsalla, The Nordic Africa Institute, Current African Issues No 65.
2. Elibariki E. Msuya, Aida Cuthbert Isinika and Fred MawunyoDzanku (2018). Agricultural Intensification Response to Agricultural Input Subsidies in Tanzania: A Spatial-Temporal and Gender Perspective, 2002 – 15. In Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Fred MawunyoDzanku and Aida Cuthbert Isinika (ed) Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender inRural Africa: A Longitudinal Perspective from Six Countries. Oxford University Press.
3. N. M. Kuboja, A. C. Isinika and F. T. Kilima (2017). Determinants of economic efficiency among small scale beekeepers in Tabora and Katavi regions, Tanzania: a stochastic profit frontier approach. Development Studies Research, 4: 1, 1 – 8.
The books she has co-edited include;
1. In Opira Otto, Aida Isinika and HrmanMusahara (ed) Land Tenure Dynamics in East Africa: Changing practices and rights to land. Upsalla, The Nordic Africa Institute, Current African Issues No 65.
2. Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Fred MawunyoDzanku and Aida Cuthbert Isinika (2018) Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender in Rural Africa: A Longitudinal Perspective from Six Countries. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-879928-3 (hbk) 978-0-19-879929-0 (pbk)
3. Goran Djurfeldt, Ernest Aryeetey and Aida C. Isinika (2010) African Small Holders: Food Crops, Markets and Policy.CABI International. pp. 354-371. ISBN 9781845935665
4. KjellHavnevick and Aida C. Isinika (2010) Tanzania in Transition: From Nyerere to Mkapa. MkukinaNyota. pp. 137 -157. ISBN 978-9987-080086-1
