Christopher Magomba
Lecturer, Department of Trade and Investment, Sokoine University of Agriculture
Christopher Magomba is a lecturer in the Department of Trade and Investment at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in Tanzania. His area of interest is agricultural land and the relationship among crop value chain, rural-urban livelihoods, poverty, and gender inequality. He has worked with different research projects and assignments in land access, soil health, water use and gender, women’s and youths’ livelihoods, and agricultural commercialization. Other related key interests include interconnections among soil fertility, fertilizer quality beliefs, and local and regional food security.
Magomba's ongoing projects include agricultural insurance in Tanzania; research on agricultural input suppliers and mineral fertilizer quality in Eastern Tanzania; and assessing the economics of mastitis in dairy cows in Tanzania.
Magomba is a DANIDA fellowship scholar with a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in Tanzania.
Recent work by Christopher Magomba
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How peer learning improved agricultural technology adoption in Tanzania
Previous research finds that peer-to-peer learning can successfully promote technology adoption, making participatory approaches that emphasise iterative, two-way communication now common in agricultural development. We examine whether this peer lear...
Published 16.05.25
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Building trust in the quality of fertilisers in Tanzania
A low-touch information campaign in Tanzania improved farmers’ confidence in the quality of fertiliser, leading to an increase in purchases
Published 26.10.23