Samuel Elias Kayamo is an agricultural economist and Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Land Use Economics at the University of Hohenheim, Germany.
Samuel is interested in understanding how climate variability and change affect smallholder farmers’ decision-making, risk exposure, and adaptation strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. He is particularly interested in the role of seasonal climate forecasts, land-use decisions, and risk management in building resilient farming systems. His work aims to generate insights that support the design of sustainable and climate-resilient agricultural landscapes that benefit both farmers and the environment.
He addresses these questions by combining farm-level economic analysis, simulation modelling (including agent-based modeling), and behavioral economic experiments, particularly framed field experiments.
In his academic role, he teaches courses on Farm System Modeling, Farm Risk Analysis, and Land Use Economics for MSc and PhD students.
Samuel holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences (Dr.sc.agr.) from the University of Hohenheim (2025), a Master’s degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, India (2014), and a second Master’s degree in Environmental Sciences (Major: Environmental Economics) from Wageningen University & Research (2019). Prior to his current position, he served as a Lecturer in Agricultural and Natural Resources Economics at Hawassa University and Dilla University in Ethiopia.
