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Miet Maertens

Professor at the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at KU Leuven

KU Leuven

About me

Miet Maertens is professor in agricultural and development economics and head of the Division of Bioeconomics at KU Leuven. She holds a PhD in agricultural economics from the Georg-August University in Goettingen and MSc. degrees in Economics and in Bioscience Engineering from KU Leuven.

Her research focuses on food trade, supply chain coordination, food standards, and sustainable agricultural intensification – she studies these issues from the perspective of how they affect low- and middle- income countries and the rural development process in these countries, with specific attention to food security, labor market developments, gender and empowerment.