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Annet Adong

@AnnetAdong

Development and Agriculture Economists. Member of East Africa Social Science Translation, AERC, and AGRODEP.

 Uganda
Joined August 2013
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EGAP@EGAPTweetsOct 27
10 Things to Know About Pilot Studies buff.ly/OuCokJz #EGAPMethodsGuide
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EGAP@EGAPTweetsOct 23
...and that's a wrap on #EGAP32 🎉 Thank you to everyone who joined us @novafrica over the last three days! And a huge thank you @pedrocvicente and the @novafrica team for hosting and ensuring everything ran so smoothly. Until next time! 👋
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EGAP (@EGAPTweets) profile pictureEGAP@EGAPTweetsOct 23
In our final #EGAP32 session, our Methods Working Group led a conversation about future directions for EGAP's methodological focus. Thanks to all who shared ideas about constructive collaborations, linking theory & empirics & contributing to evidence-based policy decisions.
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Jessica Leight@leightjessicaJun 1
What are the most common topics in development economics? Following on the analysis of what % are RCTs, I developed a Python script to assign topic fields. (All the code + results are public here - anyone is welcome to use it.) #econtwitter #econsky github.com/leightjessica/dev…
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Here is a post that highlights some of the work I have done
Jessica Leight (@leightjessica) profile pictureJessica Leight@leightjessicaMar 30
Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @AnnetAdong who works on topics linked to agriculture, particularly in East Africa
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The Hidden Costs of Coffee Production in the Eastern African Value Chains - Adong - Sustainable Development - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
The Hidden Costs of Coffee Production in the Eastern African Value Chains

The Hidden Costs of Coffee Production in the Eastern African Value Chains

There is increasing recognition that significant hidden costs associated with agrifood systems are not reflected in market prices. Coffee is among the three most traded agricultural commodities in...

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Amos Wekesa
@wekesa_amos7 Sep 2025
Gulu city Okay guys, I told you 400 Germans so far have registered for ⁦@GuluOktoberfest⁩ They have bought their attires you see them on, made in Gulu and exported to them. A group of young ladies in Gulu are sawing this attires and exporting them
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African women researchers often face double barriers in research collaboration — balancing both gendered and systemic challenges that limit their visibility and leadership in academia. 👩🏾‍🔬 Dive into the Status Of African Women In Research Report here : mawazoinstitute.org/reports/
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Eat widely and vote wisely
Owa Rweene (@lukusem) profile pictureOwa Rweene@lukusem23 Jul 2025
What the minister is saying: people eat widely. This isnt multi-party democracy but just a culture of vote buying which increases the financial value of a vote in each election round.
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Owa Rweene@lukusem23 Jul 2025
What the minister is saying: people eat widely. This isnt multi-party democracy but just a culture of vote buying which increases the financial value of a vote in each election round.
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Samwise Gamgee (@Sambannz) profile pictureSamwise Gamgee@Sambannz23 Jul 2025
"In 3days-1week, I spent Ugx 500,000,000 in elections."~Minister Anite Some other MP said they spent Ugx 600,000,000 on the election day. In Western Uganda, for one to win in the recent NRM primaries, a candidate needed between Ugx 1,500,000,000 to Ugx 2,000,000,000
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Honoured to meet HE President @KagutaMuseveni to discuss Uganda’s progress on agrifood systems transformation. I reaffirmed @FAO’s support for developing value chains to boost productivity, resilience, and achieve food and income security. #FoodSecurity #4Betters
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This is basically just an act of vandalism. The DHS surveys are the bedrock of so much that we know abt change in health, families, structure, jobs in developing countries. I know this US administration has done more and worse, but this is such wanton waste
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JUST IN: Michael Atingi-Ego has been appointed as the new Governor of the Bank of Uganda, while Augustus Nuwagaba has been appointed the new Deputy Governor. @nbstv
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New @IFPRI Discussion Paper: "The unmet financial needs of intermediary firms within agri-food value chains in Uganda and Bangladesh" with @AnnetAdong, @ambler_kate, @adebrauw, @SylvanRH, Saiful Islam, and Julia Wagner cgspace.cgiar.org/items/345f…
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Great to be on this panel with @SamMuhula, @AnnetAdong, @muthoninganga, @AimableNsabima1 , and @ketkidsheth discussing findings from @CEGA_UC and @NIERA_EA's Collaboration for Inclusive Development Research! #AES2024 – at Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Day 1 of the Africa Evidence Summit was a success, as we start day 2 here are some highlights from yesterday! #AES2024
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Join the discussion
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An interesting discussion we had sometime back on digital financial services
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@fsduganda8 Nov 2023
In the learning and co-creation session @AnnetAdong of @IFPRI will moderate a panel session on "What private and public action could improve small firms' access to financial services?" #SmallFirmDiariesUG
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The tales of farmers in Uganda!! The solution is more than providing Agricultural Insurance
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@rkabushenga14 Sep 2023
Farm Woes: This week I spoke to 3 farmers. - 1st lost his harvest, warehouses, equipment, fertilizer & 15 workers to a fire - 2nd lost over 5,000 pigs to disease from infected feeds - 3rd is an exporter who has gone bankrupt trying to fulfill his contracts. We are on our own!!!
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Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary
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Dean Yang@deanyang20 Jul 2023
Submit your paper to the 16th Migration and Development Conference! A great gathering of migration econ scholars. Will be at Boston University's @GDP_Center, Oct. 2-3, 2023. Submission deadline Aug. 5 (in about two weeks!) bu.edu/gdp/16th-internationa…
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