Valentina Mazzucato

Valentina Mazzucato studied Political Science and French literature at Williams College (U.S.A.). She volunteered as a high school teacher in Merti, Kenya and then returned to the United States to obtain an M.Sc. degree in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University. She worked at the International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) for which she conducted research in Niger, Mali, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso on the effects of national research programs on the livelihoods of West African farmers. In 2000 she obtained her Ph.D. degree (cum laude) from Wageningen University (NL) with a thesis entitled Soil and water conservation in a changing society: the case of eastern Burkina Faso co-authored with David Niemeijer. In July 2001 she received a research grant from the Netherlands Foundation for Scientific Research (NWO) to carry out the Ghana TransNet research program. She has published various articles in Economic Geography, Development and Change, People Space and Place, Migrantenstudies, Afriche e Orienti, Geoderma, Environment and Oxford Development Studies.

E-mail: v.mazzucato@uva.nl and vmazzucato@feweb.vu.nl

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