Mabaya, Edward
Research Associatebio
Edward Mabaya is a Research Associate in the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. His research interests include food marketing and distribution, spatial market integration and equilibrium, commodity price analysis and the role of efficient agricultural markets in rural economic development. An award winning instructor, Mabaya has been recognized for his teaching excellence in Marketing Management. Prior to Cornell, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare-Zimbabwe where he earned his B.Sc. Mabaya earned both his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Agricultural Economics at Cornell University
affiliations
academic staff in
- Applied Economics and Management (AEM) | Cornell department
teaching
teaches
- AEM 4940 - Undergraduate Special Topics in Applied Economics and Management (W 07:30:PM-10:30:PM) | spring 2009 class
- AEM 4970 - Individual Study in Applied Economics and Management (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- AEM 7000 - Individual Study in Applied Economics and Management (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
background
featured in
- Cornell students take winter break and provide 'thousands of dollars' of advice and help to Tanzanian seed companies | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Mabaya wins 'best paper' at annual African conference | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Students help Botswana firm that markets wild-food products and helps locals | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Students put marketing and management skills to work for Kenya's seed industry | Cornell Chronicle feature
publications
selected publications (listing in progress)
- Zavale, H., Mabaya, E., and Christy, R., “Adoption of improved maize varieties among smallholder farmers in Mozambique”, Agrekon, Under review .
- Mabaya, E., “Spatial Market Integration Under Discontinuous Trade: An Analysis of Urban Spot Markets for Tomatoes in Zimbabwe”, Economie Rurale (French Agricultural Economics Journal), pp283-284, September-December 2004..
- Mabaya, E., and Christy, R.D., “Markets, Government and Development: Structural Adjustment Programs in a Global Economy” in Christy, R. edited Achieving Sustainable Communities in a Global Economy, World Scientific Publishing, 2004, pp 113-136.
- Mabaya, E., (2001), “The Theory and Practice of Market Integration”, Working Paper AEE 3/2001, University of Zimbabwe, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Harare, Zimbabwe, 2001.
- Mabaya, E.and Christy, R.D., “Wholesale Price Movements for Horticultural Produce in Zimbabwe: an Analysis of Tomato Prices in Harare” in Access and Equity Issues in Agriculture an Rural Development, Edited by Baharanyi, N., Zabawa, R., and Hill W.A., Tuskeegee University, 1998, pp 209-225.
- Guvheya, G., Mabaya, E., and Christy, R.D., “Smallholder Horticultural Markets in Zimbabwe: Margins, Price Transmission, and Spatial Integration”, Staff Paper #98-02, 1998.