Staff Profile

Qualifications

1. PhD Agricultural Economics

Dissertation Title:  An Analysis of the Smallholder Irrigation-Poverty Nexus in Rural Zimbabwe: Implications for Poverty Alleviation. 

2. MSc Agricultural and Applied Economics 

3. BSc Special Honours in Monitoring and Evaluation

4. BSc (Honours) Agriculture (Agricultural Economics Major)

5. Postgraduate Diploma in Tertiary Education 

 Research Interests

• Smallholder irrigation and water resources management
• Agricultural and rural development
• Food security and livelihoods analysis
• Poverty and income distribution analysis
• Food and commodity markets

Publications Journal Papers

1. Mupaso, N., Makombe, G., Mugandani, R., Mafongya, P.L. 2024. Assessing the contribution of smallholder irrigation to household food security in Zimbabwe. Agriculture 2024, 14, 617. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14040617
2. Mupaso, N., Makombe, G., Mugandani, R., Mafongoya, P.L. 2024. Socioeconomic determinants of poverty reduction among irrigating farmers in Mberengwa district, Zimbabwe. Sustainability 2024, 16, 3580. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16093580
3. Manyere, S. H., Mapfumo, A., Katema, T., Hanyani-Mlambo, B., Mhaka, N. P., Mupaso, N., Wiri, M., & Muberekwa, J. (2024). Consumer Willingness to Pay (WTP) for organic cabbage in Chegutu, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe Journal of Business, Economics and Management, 3(2). ISBN: 978-1-777939-24-4 (Print), ISSN: 2791-0156 (Online).
4. Chivizhe, J.B. and Mupaso, N. 2023. Technical efficiency among smallholder irrigators: Trends from Zimbabwe. Asian Journal of Agriculture and Allied Sciences, 6 (1), 85-94. https://ikpress.org/index.php/AJAAS/article/view/8644
5. Abel S., Mupaso, N., Mukarati, J and Le Roux, P. 2023. Effects of Covid-19 on smallholder tobacco farmers in Zimbabwe, African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and development, 23 (5)
6. Mupaso N., Makombe, G and Mugandani, R. 2023. Smallholder irrigation and poverty reduction in developing countries: a review, HELIYON, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e13341.
7. Ability Mufunda, Norman Mupaso, Tendai Maparara and Nyasha Chipunza. 2021. Evaluation of financial performance of Center Pivot versus Furrow irrigation systems in sugarcane production at Green Fuel Estate in Chipinge, Zimbabwe. Big Data in Water Resources Engineering, 2 (1)
8. Mauswa, C and Mupaso, N. 2021. Sustainable intensification among smallholder tobacco (Nicotiana Tabacum) farms in Karoi, Zimbabwe. Asian Journal of Advances in Agricultural Research, 15 (1)
9. Masunda, S and Mupaso, N. 2019. A microeconometric analysis of factors affecting global value chain participation in Zimbabwe. Cogent Economics and Finance, 7 (1)
10. Mupaso N., Nyamutowa C., Masunda S., Chipunza N and Mugabe D. 2014. Characterisation of smallholder irrigation schemes in Chirumanzu district, Zimbabwe. Journal of Agricultural Science. 6 (2)
11. Mupaso N., Manzungu E., Mutambara J and Hanyani-Mlambo B. 2014. The impact of irrigation technology on financial and economic performance of smallholder irrigation in Zimbabwe. Irrigation and Drainage.
12. Mugabe D., Chipunza N., Munyati V. T., Mupaso N and Makarudze F. 2014. Estimation of optimal land use allocation among smallholder (A1) farmer households in Zimbabwe. A Case Study of Long Croft farm, in Mazowe District. Journal of Agricultural Science. 6 (2)
13. Nyamutowa C, Masunda S and Mupaso N. 2014. A review paper: Assessing the readiness of Zimbabwe in the adoption of an agricultural commodity market. MSUJSAT

Community Engagement and Strategic Partnership

• Consultant on smallholder irrigation, value-chain analysis and agricultural project evaluations