Felicitas Okoye

  • PhD StudentDepartment of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa

Contact Info:

  • felicitas.okoye@phd.unipi.it
  • 80 Via del Borghetto, Pisa

I hold a bachelor and master’s degree in Agricultural Economics from the Federal University of technology Owerri (FUTO) and the University of Ibadan, Ibadan (UI) Nigeria respectively.

I have 4 years of professional experience in field data collection being responsible as a field supervisor and enumerator for projects/programmes by World Health Organization (WHO), World Bank, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and International Finance Corporation (IFC) and a temporary staff of the National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria. I have also worked in the private sector dealing with the import of farm tools and chemicals.

In January 2022 I joined the PAGE team at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa as a PhD student. I am currently supporting the team in the CODECS project.

KEY RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Contract and cooperative farming
  • Agriculture and rural development
  • Digital Agriculture

CORE COMPETENCES

  • Quantitative research and data analysis
  • Data collection (with Open Data Kit (ODK), CTO and survey solution; FGD, KII, and In- depth interview), entry and transcription

CURRENT EU-FUNDED PROJECTS

CODECS: Maximizing the CO-benefits of agricultural Digitalization through conducive digital ECoSystems
See the list of all projects the group is involved in here