Alida Sangrigoli
- Department
- Impact Economics
- Title
- Advisor
- a.sangrigoli@kit.nl
Alida Sangrigoli is a researcher in the fields of economics, development, and public policy.
At KIT, she is an advisor in the Impact Economics Team. She has a background in development studies and international economics and holds a PhD from the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy. During her Ph.D., she studied the role of foreign investment as a catalyst for development and structural change in African countries, with a focus on labour market dynamics in Ghana.
Before starting her PhD, she joined different research projects in the fields of health economics and policy and local development. Among these, she took part in an Inter-American Development Bank project, conducting fieldwork and data analysis for the development of a sustainable tourism strategy in four urban areas in Argentina.
Alida also collaborated with the International Training Centre of the ILO, in Turin, as both a data analyst and learning advisor. She facilitated workshops and discussions among professionals from public, private and non-governmental organizations on a variety of topics related to labour, gender equality and the impact of technological change.
Projects
Publications
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Alternative Income Generation
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Paper
As the majority of cocoa producers in West Africa continue to earn far below a living income, the concept of living income has become central to discussions on sustainable cocoa. While efforts have traditionally focused on increasing cocoa productivity, there is growing recognition that income diversification is essential to reduce vulnerability to price volatility and […]
- Year of publication
- December 2025
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Nestlé Income Accelerator Program: Progress Report of the Test-at-Scale Phase
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Report
In 2022, Nestlé launched the Income Accelerator Program in Côte d’Ivoire as part of their ambition to help close the Living Income (LI) gap in their cocoa supply chain and combat the root causes of child labour risks. The current test-at-scale phase involves 10,000 farming households in Côte d’Ivoire, following a previous one-year piloting period among 1,000 farming households. These […]
- Year of publication
- 2024
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A3-SEED South Sudan: Internal Project Evaluation
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Evaluation
This final report presents a comprehensive evaluation of the A3SEED project (2021–2025), a €10 million initiative funded by the Embassy of the Netherlands in South Sudan and implemented by IFDC in partnership with KIT Institute. The project aimed to transform the seed sector in South Sudan by strengthening domestic seed production through a private sector–led […]
- Year of publication
- December 2025
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