Daniel Kyalo Willy
Daniel Kyalo Willy is an accomplished agricultural economist with over 15 cumulative years of passionately working with smallholder farmers, particularly in designing and implementing inter-disciplinary agricultural research projects, household and market surveys and quantitative/qualitative data analysis. His research has mainly focused on sustainable agricultural intensification and productivity, technology adoption and transfer, impact assessment of agricultural technologies, institutional economic aspects of agriculture, agri-environmental interactions and agricultural value chains assessment. Daniel holds a Bsc. in Agricultural Economics (Egerton), an MSc. in Agricultural and Applied Economics (Egerton) and a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics (Bonn).
Before joining AATF, Daniel was a lecturer and researcher at the department of Agricultural Economics, Kenyatta University.
He is a member of the African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE) and has consulted for the National Research Fund (NRF) – Kenya, Solidaridad East and Central Africa, BOKU University – Austria, and Michigan State University. As TAAT Policy Enabler Programme Officer, Daniel is responsible for implementing activities within the program towards facilitating the creation of an enabling environment for efficient deployment of high impact agricultural technologies in 9 value chains across over 20 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. His work includes policy analysis to identify policy, regulatory and institutional related bottlenecks on seed systems, agricultural input and output markets; engaging policy makers and other relevant stakeholders to facilitate the elimination of these bottlenecks and administrative responsibilities related to project planning and fiduciary activities. Daniel is a Kenyan national.