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Graduate Research Assistant
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Henriette Gitungwa, who is originally from Rwanda, is a 4th year PhD Candidate in Agricultural Economics at University of Nebraska-Lincoln(UNL).
Her three research essays are on implications of incomplete consideration of consumer products valuation; relationship between consumers’ beliefs about product price, taste, and health and product consideration; and effect of accurate health information on consumers’ product consideration and choice. She holds a Master of Science Degree in Agricultural Economics from UNL under Fulbright Exchange Scholarship. Her puplished masters' thesis paper is "Female and male-controlled livestock holdings impact pastoralist food security and women’s dietary diversity." Before coming to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, she competed her Bachelor of Science Degree in Rural Development and Agribusiness at University of Rwanda. Growing up in one of the Sub-Saharan African countries, her intellectual curiosity and passion for research grew from a realization that many developing countries are still largely dependent on subsistence agriculture and are experiencing food insecurity and malnutrition that primarily affects women and children in households. This led her to pursue my Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics so that she can learn how to apply economic principles to solve agricultural challenges, but also to gain skills in formulating more sustainable solutions to reduce food insecurity, malnutrition, poverty, and other challenges that especially consumers face.