Arouna ASSOUMA is an Agricultural Economist with a Ph.D. in Natural Resource Economics. Dr. Arouna ASSOUMA holds a Master’s Degree in Agricultural Economics. He has over ten years of experience developing projects, designing development, climate change, and the Impact evaluation of projects/programs. He also works as a climate change mitigation project advisor in Benin, providing meteorology information to smallholders. Dr. ASSOUMA is a member of AfricClimActiv Research project for climate change.

Dr. Arouna ASSOUMA has experience as a Business and Digital Coach over 5 years supporting Small and Medium Enterprises. Dr. ASSOUMA is a data scientist. He conducts data collection, data analysis, and reports. He also monitors and evaluates projects/programs. He masters data collection and analysis tools such as Kobotoolbox, R, Stata, SPSS, and Power BI very well. Data analysis methods such as linear regression, logit, probit, probit, propensity score matching, and Best-Worst Scaling are often used to reach his goal.

His thesis research topic is Agribusiness Clusters’ impact evaluation on performance economics. Given this topic and his professional experiences, Dr. ASSOUMA has a solid background in impact evaluation and climate change in the Agricultural field. 

Dr. ASSOUMA has a wide range of knowledge in several fields, including Agribusiness Clusters, Climate change, environment economics, agro-pastoral economy, marketing circuits, agricultural value chains, SME Loop business coaching, and business plan writing for entrepreneurs.