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Krista Jacobs
Economist
Bio: 

Krista Jacobs is an economist at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). In this role, Jacobs develops capacity building and monitoring and evaluation tools that bring a gender lens to issues related to land, property, agriculture and food security.

Jacobs has more than six years of experience researching the interaction of gender, poverty, health and agricultural development. Jacobs measures the social and economic circumstances of girls and women through surveys and impact analyses. Before joining ICRW in 2008, she was as a fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Global AIDS Program. She also served as a research collaborator at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and as a research manager at a food and nutrition project in Ghana, lead by IFPRI and the United Nations Children’s Fund.

Expertise: 

Property Rights, Agriculture and Food Security, Economic Empowerment, HIV and AIDS

Languages Spoken: 

English (native), Spanish (proficient), Portuguese (basic)

Education: 

Jacobs holds a doctorate in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Davis, and a bachelor’s in economics from Harvard University.

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