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Name:

Godswill Makombe

Nationality:

Zimbabwe

Position held:

Agricultural Economist

Year of Employment:

February 2010

Qualifications:

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Colorado state University (Colorado, USA)
1. MS Student Affairs in Higher Education (2004)
2. PhD. Agricultural and Natural Resources Economics (2000)
3. MBA (1999)
4. MS Agricultural and Natural Resources Economics (1998)
University of Zimbabwe
1. MPhil (1992)
2. BSc Agriculture (1985)

Specialization/Expertise: Production Economics, Economic Development including LED approach, Econometrics

Experience:

Present, Agricultural Economist, Africa Rice Center, Cotonou, Benin

2008-February 2010: Consultant; Chief Economist: Limpopo Centre for Local Economic Development (LED) Resource Centre. University of Limpopo. South Africa

2005-2008: Post-Doc Scientist, International Water Management Institute. Among many other projects Makombe's major project was called “Impact of Irrigation on Poverty and Environment in Ethiopia”

1995: Research Associate, Institute of Ecology and Resource Management, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

1990-1994: Research Fellow, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe.

1987-1989: Research officer/Economist, Ministry of Lands Agriculture and Rural Resettlement, Government of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe.

1986: Research Fellow, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe.

1983-1984: Teacher, Kambarami Secondary School, Murehwa, Zimbabwe (University of Zimbabwe Teaching in Rural Areas Program)

1982: Teacher, Musami Secondary school, Mure
hwa, Zimbabwe

Major Achievements:

2001: Certificate of Honorable Mention. The 2001 award for the Outstanding Water Resources Ph.D. Dissertation in the field of Water Policy and Socio_Economics. The Universities Council on Water Resources. USA.

1995-2000: Kellogg Foundation Fellowship.

1990-1994: University of Zimbabwe./International Food Policy Research Institute Research Fellowship

1989: University of Zimbabwe/Michigan State University Research Fellowship.

1983: Courtauld Prize for outstanding student in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension (then the Department of Land Management). Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe