Eva Salve Tino Bacud
Research Interests:
- Social-ecological systems
- Livelihoods and labour
- Technology adoption
- Poverty and inequality
- Gender in development
- Applied econometrics and impact evaluation
Research Project:
About Her
Eva Bacud is a Researcher and Doctoral Candidate in the Chair of Economics and Agricultural Policy at the University of Bonn. Currently, her research focuses on the connection between aspirations, livelihoods, poverty, and inequality in selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa. She adopts mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) and gender and intersectional analysis in her research.
Eva received her Master’s in Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Policy Analysis (AFEPA) from the University of Bonn, Germany, and Universita Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Italy, where she was awarded the Erasmus Mundus scholarship. Her research on gendered varietal trait preferences in Bangladesh was awarded the Hans Ruthenberg Graduate Award. Before doing her Master’s, she was an Assistant Scientist at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) for two years and a Researcher at the Partnership for Economic Policy – Community Based Monitoring System (PEP-CBMS) for a year in the Philippines.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics from the University of the Philippines (UP) Los Baños and was an exchange student at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where she was awarded the Temasek Foundation Leadership Enrichment and Regional Networking scholarship.
Eva has designed and conducted surveys and field discussions in the Philippines, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, and Kenya.
Know more about her work and project involvement.
CV
Since 04/2022:
PhD in Agricultural Economics (Development focus), University of Bonn
Project: Aspirations, Poverty, and Inequality
Collaborative Research Center TRR 228 - Future Rural Africa "Future-making and social-ecological transformation"
09/2019 – 12/2021:
Double-Degree MSc in Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Policy Analysis (AFEPA), University of Bonn, Universita of Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore
Awardee of Erasmus Mundus scholarship
Thesis: Breeding with an intersectional lens: Analysis of farmers’ varietal trait preferences for gender-responsive and socially-inclusive breeding goals
Winner of the Hans Ruthenberg Graduate Award (Link: Hans H. Ruthenberg Prize Winners 2022 ENG (stiftung-fiat-panis.de))
06/2012 – 06/2016:
BSc in Agricultural Economics, University of the Philippines (UP) Los Baños
Cum Laude, Awardee of UP Presidential Scholarship, Award membership in Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society in Social Sciences and Phi Kappa Phi International Honor Society
Thesis: Economic analysis of alternate wetting and drying as an alternative irrigation technique to continuous flooding in Nueva Ecija, Philippines
Awardee of the International Rice Research Institute - Association of Fellows, Scholars, Trainees, and Residents of IRRI (IRRI-AFSTRI) thesis grant
08/2014 – 12/2014:
Exchange Student, National University of Singapore (NUS)
Awardee of Temasek Foundation Leadership Enrichment and Regional Networking (TF LeaRN) Scholarship
Since 04/2022:
Doctoral Researcher, Institute for Food and Resource Economics (ILR), University of Bonn, Germany
09/2021– 03/2022:
Student Assistant, Institute for Food and Resource Economics (ILR), University of Bonn, Germany
08/2017– 08/2019:
Assistant Scientist - Gender Research, Livelihoods, Gender, and Nutrition, CGIAR - International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines
07/2016– 08/2017:
Research Assistant, Partnership for Economic Policy – Community Based Monitoring System (PEP – CBMS) International Network Office, Philippines
08/2015– 02/2016:
Student Assistant, University Main Library, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines
07/2014– 07/2015:
Student Assistant, Department of Humanities, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines
Research Projects
- Collaborative Research Center TRR 228 - Future Rural Africa "Future-making and social-ecological transformation" Phase 2 (Since 2022)
Doctoral Researcher in Project B01 Invasive Futures "The social ecology of rangelands in changing savanna environments"
Funding: DFG - Women's Economic Empowerment in Rakhine, Myanmar (2018 - 2019)
Assistant Scientist - Gender Research
Funding: UN Women - Women's Empowerment Through Women's Nursery Entrepreneurship in Bihar, India (2018 - 2019)
Assistant Scientist - Gender Research
Funding: IRRI Seed Grant - Stress-Tolerant Rice for Africa and South Asia (STRASA) Phase 3 (2017- 2019)
Assistant Scientist - Gender Research
Funding: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) - Rice Crop Manager in the Philippines (2017- 2018)
Assistant Scientist - Gender Research
Funding: Department of Agriculture (DA), Philippines - Migration in Vietnam (2017- 2018)
Assistant Scientist - Gender Research
Funding: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) - SDG Localization: Executive Snapshots and Public Financial Management- a pilot testing of the UNDP SDG Local Governance (LOGO) Toolkit (2017- 2018)
Research Assistant
Funding: UNDP - Survey on Women Migrant Workers (2016)
Research Assistant
Funding: UN Women
Publications
2024
Bacud, E. S. T., Ihli, H., & Heckelei, T. (2024). The unknown link between aspirations and livelihoods: Do aspirations explain gendered livelihood diversification? Manuscript submitted.
Bacud, E. S. T., Gerullis, M. K., Puskur, R., & Heckelei, T. (2024). Looking at gender is not enough—How diversity of farmers’ marginalization relates to varietal trait preferences. Food Policy, 124, 102616. Link.
2021
Bacud, E. S., Puskur, R., Duyen, T. N. L., Sander, B. O., & Luis, J. (2021). Rural outmigration-feminization-agricultural production nexus: Case of Vietnam. Migration and Development, 10(3), 442-466. Link.