Antony Chapoto
Research and Innovation Director (RID)
Dr Antony Chapoto is ardent agriculture and development economist who has conducted research on agriculture and food systems in Sub-Saharan Africa and has published numerous articles in peer reviewed journals, co-authored book chapters, working papers, advisory notes, policy briefs and infographics. He is currently the Research and Innovation Director of the Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI). He is also the Technical Chair of the Africa Network of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes (ReNAPRI) whose responsibility of to work closely with the Network’s secretariat and Board on research and outreach issues.
Antony.chapoto@iapri.org.zm
He is currently ANAPRI’s Coordinator for the Comprehensive Africa Climate Change Initiative (CACCI) in 2 pilot countries, Zambia and Ghana. Chapoto, was instrumental in the establishment of IAPRI in 2011 and became the Institute’s Research Director in 2014 from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), where he was a Research Fellow under the Development Strategy and Governance Division from 2012 to 2014. Prior to IFPRI, Chapoto was an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University stationed in Zambia with the department’s Food Security Research Project as the USAID Chief of Party and Research Coordinator. His research interests focus on agricultural development issues in Africa, including climate change and natural resources, agricultural technology and productivity, smallholder farm commercialization, home-grown medium- and large-scale farmers, and food markets and policy. He has spent a large part of his career doing research, engaging policy makers and agriculture stakeholders on key policy issues through a variety of outreach and capacity-building activities for sustainable policy change and development in SSA. Antony holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University, a Masters in Agricultural Economics from the University of Zimbabwe, and a Bachelors in Agriculture and Natural Resources from Africa University.
