Marijke Kuiper

Marijke Kuiper is a Researcher in International Policy at Wageningen University, specializing in food systems, nutrition, and agricultural economics. With over 100 research outputs including 17 journal articles and 45 reports, she leads major EU-funded projects like BATModel and BATMAN, focusing on trade policy impacts, dietary transformations, and circular food economies.

Her research centers on food security (100% fingerprint relevance), food systems (87%), and nutrition (55%), examining spillover effects of EU consumption, land use dynamics, and healthy diet transitions. She employs computable general equilibrium (CGE) models and spatial microsimulations to analyze socio-economic impacts across Bangladesh, Ghana, and Ethiopia, with particular emphasis on poverty reduction and environmental sustainability.

Recent publications reveal converging trends in dietary transformation economics and circular bioeconomy policy, demonstrating how animal feed innovations reduce greenhouse gas emissions while trade policy adjustments could mitigate negative international spillovers. Her work bridges agricultural economics, environmental science, and public health through interdisciplinary modeling approaches.

Kuiper actively mentors the next generation of researchers and secures competitive funding for high-impact projects:

• PhD Supervision: Co-promoted A. Gatto's doctoral research on circular bio-based societies' economic consequences
• Project Leadership:
  • BATModel (2023-2024): Analyzed trade's distributional impacts through employment/income channels
  • BATMAN (2020-2022): Developed trade policy frameworks for food system transformation
  • India Food Safety Systems (2017): Evaluated economic costs of safety protocols

She operates within international research consortia including INRAE (France) and Dutch knowledge networks, collaborating across 9 similar profiles in food security research. Her work integrates spatial microsimulation with economic modeling to address real-world policy challenges in global food systems.