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Dr. Marco Artavia

Tel.: + 49-228-73 2843

E-mail: marco.artavia@eurocare-bonn.de


Marco is an economist with experience in economic modelling and policy support. He works for EuroCARE GmbH (50%) and for other institutions (the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and occasionally the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission). He has worked with several economic models (ESIM, Aglink-Cosimo, CAPRI and single-country computable general equilibrium (CGE) models), as a market expert for cotton and sugar, and conducting project-specific studies (i.e. resilience in the cotton sector in Burkina Faso and in the cocoa sector in Ghana, or studies to Unfair Trading Practices in agricultural global value chains). Marco has been a member of the EuroCARE team since 2022.


 

Fields of Work

  • Policy support with economic models and other project-specific tools (i.e. questionnaires)
  • CAPRI model user and developer (i.e. policy and other scenario analyses, model developments as the integration of new available data or the improvement of the depiction of specificities of agricultural markets)

 

Education

2022PhD in Agricultural Sciences (Dr.rer.agr.)with a focus on agricultural economics, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
2005M.Sc. Studies of International Agriculture (emphasis in agricultural economics), Humboldt Universit t zu Berlin, Germany
2001Ingeniero Agrónomo, Grado Académico de Licenciatura, EARTH University, Costa Rica

 

Projects with Eurocare

2024Assessment of integration of organic production/commodities into the market module of CAPRI
2022/23Incorporation of the HILDA+ land use and land use change into the CARPI system

 


 

CV Publications