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Senior Researcher and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Water and Production Economics Research Unit, University of Cape Town

Dr Aina is a senior researcher and postdoctoral research fellow in the Water and Production Economics Research Unit at the University of Cape Town. His recent experience includes a visiting scholar position at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. In addition, Dr Aina is a member of the River Basin Modelling Group at the School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside.

Dr Aina has developed an active research portfolio at the intersection of water and environmental economics, agricultural economics, and behavioral economics. He also has research interests in various sub-fields of development economics, particularly as they relate to environmental and resource economics. Dr Aina is passionate about employing state-of-the-art econometric techniques and applied economic theory to address urgent questions in water governance and development policy.

Prior to his PhD, Dr Aina graduated with an MSc in agricultural economics with distinction from the University of Ilorin, and was awarded an ARISE fellowship through the Intra-Africa academic mobility scheme of the European Union.

Experience

  • –present
    Senior Researcher and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Water and Production Economics Research Unit, University of Cape Town

Education

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    University of Cape Town, PhD Economics

Publications

  • 2024
    Crop index insurance as a tool for climate resilience: lessons from smallholder farmers in Nigeria, Natural Hazard
  • 2023
    Economics of household preferences for water-saving technologies in urban South Africa, Journal of Environmental Management
  • 2023
    Substitution of piped water and self-supplied groundwater: the case of residential water in South Africa, Utilities Policy

Professional Memberships

  • Member, Water Institute of Southern Africa
  • Member, International Water Resources Association
  • Member, Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA)
  • Member, International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE)
  • Member, Agricultural Economics Society (AES)