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Dr.Place is the leader of land
and people theme.He conducts research on policy
issues and impact assessment,
primarily in the eastern and
southern Africa.His policy work
has focused principally on
property rights and their
effects on tree management at
farm and landscape levels. He is
also working on local policy
initiatives and collective
action. He has undertaken
several studies on adoption and
diffusion processes of agroforestry systems and their
impacts on profitability and
human welfare.
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Dr Place has a PhD degree in
economics from the University of
Wisconsin. He initially came to
the World Agroforestry Centre on
secondment from that
university's Land Tenure Center
where he conducted studies on
the role of tenure on the
adoption of agroforestry in
Uganda, Burundi, Zambia and
Malawi. Before joining the World
Agroforestry Centre he was a
consultant with the World Bank
for three years where he was
involved in agricultural
research and policy analysis in
Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda, Madagascar
and Mexico.
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