Caitlin Herrington, PhD, is an Advisor of Development Economics and Impact Evaluation at KIT Institute. Her research focuses on evaluating agricultural development and food security interventions in Africa. Research topics include adoption of technology and farm management practices, farm household living income, food and nutrition security, agricultural cooperatives, and value chains/market integration across cash and staple food crops.

Herrington has experience conducting policy-relevant research on the broad topics of technology adoption, production economics, nutrition-sensitive agriculture, producer and consumer willingness-to-pay, climate change adaptation and resilience, and food systems transformation. She incorporates behavioral economics into studies when possible and uses a mix of methods including quasi-experimental, experimental, and lab-in-the-field experiments. Herrington is well-versed in utilizing both primary and secondary data to address specific research questions. She has conducted field research throughout Africa, South Asia, and North America.

Herrington’s previous ten years of work experience includes the Food Security Group at Michigan State University, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Opportunity International, and Kansas State University’s Department of Agricultural Economics.

Herrington holds a PhD from Michigan State University (USA) in the Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics and a M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics from Kansas State University (USA). She obtained B.Sc. degrees in Plant Biology and Agricultural Business Management from North Carolina State University (USA).