Agricultural economics and policy (decision making under risk, technology adoption, food and nutrition security)
Climate change economics (climate change adaptation and mitigation in the agri-food sector)
Sustainable value chains (focus on the agri-food sector)
Applied Econometrics
Training / professional career
Since 2024 Head of the Department of Food System Sciences, FiBL Switzerland
2018 - 2024 Associate Professor, Economics of Agriculture, Food & Health, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), United Kingdom
2022 - 2024 Senior Sustainability Advisor, International Trade Centre (UN/WTO), Geneva, Switzerland
2019 - 2023 Senior Research Associate, Agricultural & Resource Economics, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland
2016 - 2017 Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer, Agricultural Economics & Policy Group, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2015 - 2016 Max Weber Fellow (Environmental Economics), European University Institute, Florence, Italy
2014 - 2015 Environmental Economist, International Trade Centre (UN/WTO), Geneva, Switzerland
2010 - 2014 PhD in International Economics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva, Switzerland
Committee work / further activities
Scientific Committee Memberships
2024 - 2025: Scientific Committee Member, 2025 European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) Congress
2019 - 2020: Scientific Committee Member, Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA) Annual Conference - Mediterranean Agriculture Facing Climate Change: Challenges and Policies
2019: International Scientific Committee Member, Seminar of the EAAE - Measuring and Evaluating Farm Income and Well-being of Farm Families in Europe: Towards a Shared and Broader Approach for Analysis and Policy Design
Memberships
European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE)
European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)
Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology (SGA)
Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA)
Animal Welfare Research Network (AWRN)
Editorial Board Memberships
European Review of Agricultural Economics
Agriculture & Food Security
Bio-based and Applied Economics
Agribusiness: An International Journal (2019 - 2023)
Italian Economic Journal (2017 - 2022)
Doctoral Advisory Committee - External Examiner
2024: Trento University (Italy), Department of Economics and Management
2024: University of Antwerp (Belgium), Environmental Economics Chair, Department of Engineering Management
2024: Tuscia University (Italy), Department of Agriculture and Forest Sciences
2020 - 2024: Ghent University (The Netherlands), Faculty of Bioscience Engineering
2020 and 2022: ETH Zurich (Switzerland), Agricultural Economics & Policy
2022: Pavia University (Italy), Department of Economics and Management
2022: Milan University (Italy), Department of Environmental Science and Policy
Teaching
Queen’s University Belfast (2018 - 2024): Environmental Management Dissertation (BSc)
Queen’s University Belfast (2018 - 2021): Introduction to Environmental Economics (BSc)
Zurich University of Applied Sciences (2019 - 2021): Environmental and Resource Economics (MSc) & The Economics of Climate Change
University of Foggia - Summer School Econometrics in Agricultural Sciences: Panel Data Models and Spatial Econometrics (Master and PhD)
Geneva University (2016 - 2019): Environmental and Resource Economics (BSc and MSc)
Geneva University (2015 - 2016): Development Economics (BSc and MSc)
ETH Zurich (2016 - 2017): Agricultural Systems in Developing Countries (Lectures within the course 'Agrarökonomie im World Food System', BSc)
Awards
2023 and 2018: Best Referee of the European Review of Agricultural Economics Award (European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation)
2019: Fellowship (Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom)
2017: Best Contributed Paper Award (Annual Conference of the European Association of Agricultural Economists)
2014: Outstanding Presentation of Research Award (EAERE-FEEM-VIU European Summer School on the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change)
Publications that are not in the Organic Eprints archive
Bozzola, M., E. Lamonaca, F. G. Santeramo (2024) “A new dataset on climate distance for trade analyses” Data in Brief. Forthcoming.
Ting, E., M. Bozzola, C. Ravetti (2024) “Tuberculosis and labour market participation: evidence from South Africa” South African Journal of Economics. Forthcoming.
Lamonaca, E., M. Bozzola, F. G. Santeramo (2024) “Climate distance and bilateral trade” Economics Letters, [111624]
Ravetti, C., M. Bozzola, A. Bruederle (2024) “From climatic to international shocks: Where does the evidence stand on income changes and child labor” Review of Development Economics, Forthcoming.
Zabel, A., R. Bokusheva, M. Bozzola (2024) “Dealing with negative monetary ecosystem services values in environmental and economic accounting” Ecosystem Services, 66, [101602].
McLaughlin S. M., M. Bozzola, A. Nugent (2023) “Changing Climate, Changing Food Consumption? Impact of Weather Shocks on Nutrition in Malawi”. The Journal of Development Studies.
Bozzola M., E. Lamonaca, F. G. Santeramo (2023) “Impacts of climate change on global agri-food trade”. Ecological Indicators, 154 [110680].
Cerroni S., M. Bozzola, R. Rippo (2023) “Eliciting Farmers’ Risk and Uncertainty Preferences Using Contextualized Field Experiments in Developing Countries: A Pilot Study” Chapter in: “Managing Risk in Agriculture: A Development Perspective” p. 85-100 CABI Digital Library
Bozzola M. and N. Seo (2022) “An Analysis of the Behavioral Economics of the Green Climate Fund”. Chapter 16 in: "Handbook of Behavioural Economics and Climate Change." Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Bozzola M. and S. Cerroni (2022) “Farmers’ acceptability of carbon offset programs in agriculture””. Chapter 14 in: "Handbook of Behavioural Economics and Climate Change." Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Koppenberg, M., M. Bozzola, T. Dalhaus, S. Hirsch (2021) “Mapping potential implications of temporary COVID-19 export bans for the food supply in importing countries using precrisis trade flows”. Agribusiness, 37(1), 25-43. This article received in 04/2022 the WILEY Publisher Award for “Top downloaded papers” for being one of the most read in Agribusiness.
Bozzola, M., S. Charles, T. Ferretti, E. Gerakari, H. Manson, N. Rosser, P. von der Goltz (2021). The Coffee Guide. International Trade Centre, Geneva, Switzerland. 327p.
Bozzola, M., and M. Smale (2020) “The welfare effects of crop biodiversity as an adaptation to climate shocks in Kenya” World Development 135, 105065
Bozzola, M., and R. Finger (2020) “Time variant risk preferences in agriculture: Evidences from Italy” European Review of Agricultural Economics 48(3), 477–501 doi:10.1093/erae/jbaa021
Möhring N., M. Bozzola, S. Hirsch and R. Finger (2020) “Are pesticides risk decreasing? The relevance of pesticide indicator choice in empirical analysis” Agricultural Economics 51, 429-444.
Iyer, P., M. Bozzola*, S. Hirsch, M. Meraner, R. Finger (2020) “Measuring Farmer Risk Preferences in Europe: A Systematic Review” Journal of Agricultural Economics 71:3-26. This article received in 04/2020 the WILEY Publisher Award for “Top downloaded papers” for being one of the most read in the Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Bozzola, M., E. Massetti, R. Mendelsohn and F. Capitanio (2018) “A Ricardian Analysis of the Impact of Climate Change on Italian Agriculture.” European Review of Agricultural Economics 45 (1), 57-79.
Bozzola, M., M. Smale and S. Di Falco (2018) “Maize Intensification among Smallholder Farmers in Kenya: Understanding the Impacts of Climate”. Book Chapter in: "Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa: Food Security in a Changing Environment." RFF Press/Routledge, London and New York.
Hanley, N., O. Sheremetd, M. Bozzola and D. MacMillan (2017) “The Allure of the Illegal: a choice modelling approach to understanding rhino horn consumption in Vietnam” Conservation Letters 11(3), 1-8.
Bozzola, M. and C. Ravetti (2017) “Gli impatti dei cambiamenti climatici sul valore dei terreni agricoli in Italia: modelli Ricardiani a confronto” AgriregioniEuropa 49
Bozzola, M. and T. Swanson (2014) “Policy implications of climate variability on agriculture: Water management in the Po river basin, Italy.” Environmental Science & Policy 43, 26–38.
Di Falco S., F. Adinolfi, M. Bozzola, F. Capitanio (2014) “Crop Insurance as a Strategy to Adapt to Climate Change.” Journal of Agricultural Economics 65 (2), 485–504.
