Eva Huet

Eva Huet is a Researcher at Wageningen University's Water and Food faculty, specializing in agricultural risk management and sustainable farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her work focuses on understanding how farmers in Mali navigate risks related to weather, labor shortages, and input markets. She holds a PhD in internal PhD, WU, completed in September 2023.

Education:

• PhD in Agricultural Systems (2023, Wageningen University)

Research Interests: Eva's research emphasizes agro-ecological intensification, farmer decision-making processes, and co-design approaches involving farmers and scientists. She investigates how rural populations in Mali adapt to environmental and economic uncertainties, particularly in sorghum production systems. Her work bridges practical farming challenges with academic insights to develop sustainable solutions.

Activities: She has delivered keynote talks on farmer research networks and participated in multiple academic presentations on sustainable farming pathways in West Africa. Recent activities include speaking at conferences in 2021 and 2020 on risk management and agroecological practices.

Data Contributions: Eva has created datasets on risk perception and impact frequency among farmers in Mali's Koutiala region (2021), available via IFPRI.

Project Leadership: As Principal Investigator (PI), she led the project 'Farmers’ choices in applying agroecological intensification options in the light of farming risk in southern Mali,' running from December 2016 to September 2023. This project explored policy interventions and sustainable intensification strategies in Mali's cotton zone.