Edward P. Mazhangara

Edward P. Mazhangara received his M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics from Purdue University in 1993. Currently a Ph.D. Candidate at Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural Economics, his areas of research include agricultural technology development and transfer, rural development, marketing, environment, poverty alleviation, food security, and the interaction between health and agriculture in rural Africa. His dissertation topic is on "The Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS Related Adult Mortality and its Mitigation Strategies Among Rural Agricultural Households in Malawi." He will be commencing a one-year dissertation fieldwork in Malawi at the end of October 2001. Mazhangara has more than seven years of work experience. He worked as a Principal Research Officer (Economics) at Chiredzi Research Station under Ministry of Agriculture in Zimbabwe. He also participated in a Southern Africa Development Community regional in-service training program, as a research methodology-training consultant. Mazhangara has been awarded two fellowships in the past, the Kellogg International Leadership Program (KILP), October 1996 - December 1998, and Salzburg Seminar - Session 353, on Sustainable Rural Community Development, February 1998. Under these fellowships, he participated in global and regional leadership and development seminars, visited communities in the US, Europe, South America, the Caribbean, Southern Africa, Australia and South East Asia, and initiated a rural community development project for a hundred families in Zaka District, Zimbabwe.