Sabine Liebenehm

Sabine Liebenehm is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Saskatchewan, College of Agriculture and Bioresources. She holds a joint affiliation with the Economics Department (College of Arts and Science) and is a member of the German Economic Association’s Development Economics Research Group. She earned her PhD in Economics (summa cum laude) from Leibniz University Hannover in 2015, and an MSc in Economics in 2008 from the same institution.

Her research focuses on understanding economic decision-making among rural households in adverse environments, particularly in Southeast Asia, West Africa, and Northern Canadian First Nations. She employs empirical microeconomic strategies, including household surveys, lab-in-the-field experiments, and climate data analysis. Key themes include risk management under weather shocks, social networks, and socio-economic vulnerability.

Recent work explores extreme weather impacts on Thai/Vietnamese farmers, rainfall-driven risk aversion in Southeast Asia, and livelihood diversification in Togo. Her 2023 publications highlight climate adaptation strategies and migration responses to droughts. Earlier studies address livestock disease control in West Africa and temporal risk attitudes.

Awarded the 2022 Best Paper Award (Thailand-Vietnam Panel) and 2016 Hermann Eiselen Prize, her work is funded by SSHRC and Queen Elizabeth II Research Funds. She teaches Development Economics, Agribusiness Management, and Indigenous economic planning.