Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Professor, Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity
Professor, Center for Digital Agriculture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Professor, Center for African Studies
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Recent Publications
Lentz, E., Baylis, K., Michelson, H., & Kim, C. (2026). Inside the black box: how consistent are global food security crisis analyses? Food Policy, 138, Article 103028. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.103028
Ndegwa, M. K., Nyangáu, P. N., Kariuki, S., Jaleta, M., Michelson, H., & Cairns, J. (2026). Is newer better? The effect of varietal age on real-world maize yield in Kenya. Food Policy, 142, Article 103112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2026.103112
Dillon, A., Lybbert, T. J., Michelson, H., & Rudder, J. (2025). Agricultural Input Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: Theory and Evidence from the (Underappreciated) Supply Side. Annual Review of Resource Economics, 17(1), 423-443. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-102324-122108
Lentz, E., Baylis, K., Michelson, H., & Kim, C. (2025). Official estimates of global food insecurity undercount acute hunger. Nature Food, 6(12), 1196-1208. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01267-z
Melesse, M. B., Maredia, M. K., Wossen, T., Odeny, D., Spielman, D. J., Michelson, H., Waza, S. A., Kamunye, K., Alene, A., Dar, M. H., Afari-Sefa, V., & Pingali, P. (2025). The role of genotyping in measuring improved variety adoption and impact: advances, challenges, and policy directions. Food Policy, 137, Article 102984. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102984