Oranu, Chizoba Obianuju

Chizoba Obianuju Oranu is an EfD Researcher and an Efd early career fellow. She has a Master’s in Agricultural Economics from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, after completing a one-year master’s mobility programme at Mekelle University, Ethiopia, under the Trans-disciplinary Training for Resource Efficiency and Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (TRECCAfrica) intra-ACP Mobility scheme. Her PhD (in view) is in Agricultural and Resource Economics, from Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, (LUANAR), Malawi, under the Regional Universities Forum (RUFORUM) Graduate Teaching Assistantship program. She is also a teaching staff in the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Research interests

Chizoba’s main research areas are Environment and Development Economics with a focus on Forestry, Energy, Climate Change, Poverty, Food Security and Gender. 

Grants

• Smallholder farmers’ preferences and willingness to accept compensation to reduce deforestation. Carnegie research grant via RUFORUM, 2021
• Gender analysis of the impact of armed banditry on smallholder farmers’ welfare. SIDA funding (2022 -2023) via EfD.
• Understanding the incentives and obstacles to effective Carbon Tax Regimes in West African Countries. EfD Special fund for collaborative programs’ peer-learning. (2023)
• Engendering behavioural change and incentive-based policy options for plastic waste reduction. EfD, 2022

Policy engagement

Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) policy workshop in Abuja for developing and including NCA into Nigeria’s policies, plans, and programs organised by Resource and Environment Policy Research Center (REPRC)