Kamara, Abdul
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Abdul B. Kamara is a published researcher and Manager of the Research Division of the African Development Bank (ADB). As research manager, Kamara is part of a team that is entrusted with identifying strategic priorities for Bank-led research on African economic and social development, and takes responsibility for supervising senior research professionals and publishing the Bank’s key flagship publications. Before becoming research manager in 2007, Kamara served as a senior agricultural economist in the Bank’s Operations Department, where he managed the Bank’s entire agricultural investment portfolio in The Gambia during 2004-2006.
Before joining the Bank, he served as a Research Scientist at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), and a joint Research Associate of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and worked extensively on water policy and agricultural development issues in Southern, Eastern and West Africa. He also taught applied production economics at the University of Göttingen in Germany, and holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics and Rural Development from the same University.
In recognition of his research work at ILRI/IFPRI, Kamara was awarded with Germany’s prestigious Josef G. Knoll Science Award 2002, making him the 1st Sierra Leonean (and 4th African) Laureate of this distinctive honour; and in 2006 he received the ADB’s Sector Operations Vice Presidency Merit Award for contributions to the Bank’s Agricultural Sector Operations in Africa for that year. His research interests include agricultural transformation and productivity growth in Africa; food security, market access and economic growth; and recently financial sector development in Africa. Kamara has authored books, book chapters and several articles in reputed journals, including the Oxford Journal on African Economies (UK), Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture (Germany), Development Southern Africa (S. Africa), Journal of Sustainable Agriculture (USA) and Development Policy Review (UK).
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20/09/2011 - China-Africa Relations Scrutinized in AfDB’s New Book
