Ekin joined the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division of IFPRI in July 2007, as a member of the Food and Water Safety team. From 2004 to 2007 she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. While at Cambridge, she conducted research on the development and application of economic methodology, to inform sustainable policies for environmental conservation and natural resources management in European Union and developing countries. From 2000 to 2004 Ekin was a Research Fellow of the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, University College London. She also worked as a consultant for IFPRI’s Environment and Production Technology Division from 2004 to 2005 and for Bioversity International from 2001 to 2004. Ekin taught graduate and undergraduate level courses at the universities of Cambridge, London and Reading. She obtained a PhD in economics with a concentration in agricultural and resource economics; an MPhil in economics with a concentration in development economics and econometrics, and an MSc in environmental and resource economics, all from University College London. Ekin is a citizen of Turkey and UK.

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• Food and Water Safety

• Cyprus
• Ghana
• Greece
• Hungary
• India
• Mexico
• Nepal
• Nigeria
• United Kingdom
• Uzbekistan
• Central Asia
• South Asia
• West Africa
• Latin America

• Farmer preferences for Milpa diversity and genetically modified maize in Mexico: A latent class approach
  Forthcoming. Birol, E., Villalba Rayn, E. and M. Smale. Environment and Development Economics.
• Choice Experiments Informing Environmental Policy: A European Perspective
  2008. Birol, E. and P. Koundouri (Eds.), with a foreword by W.L. Adamowicz. Edward-Elgar Publishing, Wally Oates and Henk Folmer's 'New Horizons in Environmental Economics' Series, Cheltenham, UK. (Download)
• Evaluating Farmers’ Preferences for Wastewater: Quantity and Quality Aspects
  2008. Birol, E., P. Koundouri and Y. Kountouris. International Journal of Water, 4(1), pp 69-86.
• Integrating Wetland Management into Sustainable Water Resources Allocation: The Case of Akrotiri Wetland in Cyprus
  2008. Birol, E., P. Koundouri and Y. Kountouris. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 51 (1), pp 37-53.
• A Pluralistic Economics Methodology for Analyzing Landrace Conservation on Farms: A Case Study of Hungarian Home Gardens
  2007. Bela, G., E. Birol and M. Smale. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 4(3), pp 213-232.
• Using Choice Experiments to Design Wetland Management Programmes: The Case of Severn Estuary Wetland, UK
  2007. Birol, E. and V. Cox. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 50(3), pp 363-380.
• Using a Choice Experiment to Account for Preference Heterogeneity in Wetland Attributes: The Case of Cheimaditida Wetland in Greece
  2006. Birol, E., K. Karousakis and P. Koundouri. Ecological Economics, 60(1), pp 145-156.
• Using a Choice Experiment to Estimate Farmers' Valuation of Agricultural Biodiversity on Hungarian Small Farms
  2006. Birol, E., M. Smale and Á. Gyovai. Environmental and Resource Economics, 34(4), pp 439-469.
• Using economic methods and tools to inform water management policies: A survey and critical appraisal of available methods and an application
  2006. Birol, E., K. Karousakis and P. Koundouri. Science of the Total Environment, 365(1-3), pp 105-122.
• The Role of Home Gardens in Promoting Multi-Functional Agriculture in Hungary
  2005. Birol, E., G. Bela and M. Smale. EuroChoices, 4(3), pp 14-26.