Hambulo Ngoma
Development Economist
Hambulo Ngoma is a Development Economist with research interests spanning the
development-environment nexus. He leads or co-leads socio-economic components of
several projects on sustainable intensification, conservation agriculture, scaling and
mechanization in Southern Africa, mainly in Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. His
current research is focused on adoption, scaling, and impact assessment, with special
interest in nudging agricultural technology adoption. He is formerly a Postdoctoral
Associate of the Department of Agricultural, Food and Resources Economics of Michigan
State University and a Research Fellow and Lead of the Climate Change and Natural
Resource Management thematic area at the Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute
(IAPRI) in Lusaka, Zambia. He holds a PhD in Applied Economics from the School of
Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, an MSc in Applied and
Agricultural Economics from the University of Malawi and a BSc in Agricultural Economics
from the University of Zambia.
