Albert Boaitey

I am food and agricultural economist with an interest in food choice, carbon and animal welfare.

I studied agriculture (agricultural economics major) at the University of Ghana in Accra. I moved to Saskatoon, Canada to study for an Msc degree at the University of Saskatchewan before joining the PhD program at the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology (REES), University of Alberta (U of A), in Edmonton. While at the U of A, I was an inaugural Teaching Fellow at the Peter Lougheed Leadership College.

From 2017-2023, I was an assistant professor at University of Wisconsin-River Falls. In 2023, I joined the Applied Social Science Group at the Centre Of Rural Economy, Newcastle University, England as Lecturer (US- assistant professor rank) in global agri-food supply chains. My research focuses on understanding stakeholder incentives in the uptake of sustainable innovations in food supply chains, consumer decision-making pertaining to ethical food attributes and the design of emerging carbon offset schemes.