- Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2014
- M.S., Cornell University, 2009

Kurt Waldman
Assistant Professor, Geography
Assistant Professor, Geography
Agricultural and environmental decision making
Behavioral science and food security
Consumer preferences and food policy
Food system sustainability
Sustainable intensification and farmer preferences for crop system attributes: evidence from Malawi’s central and southern regions (2016)
David L Ortega, Kurt B Waldman, Robert B Richardson, Daniel C Clay and Sieglinde Snapp
World Development, 87 139-151
Limitations of certification and supply chain standards for environmental protection in commodity crop production (2014)
Kurt B Waldman and John M Kerr
Annual Review of Resource Economics, 6 429-449
Estimating demand for perennial pigeon pea in Malawi using choice experiments (2017)
Kurt B Waldman, David L Ortega, Robert B Richardson and Sieglinde S Snapp
Ecological economics, 131 222-230
Combining participatory crop trials and experimental auctions to estimate farmer preferences for improved common bean in Rwanda (2014)
Kurt B Waldman, John M Kerr and Krista B Isaacs
Food Policy, 46 183-192
Is Food and Drug Administration policy governing artisan cheese consistent with consumers’ preferences? (2015)
Kurt B Waldman and John M Kerr
Food Policy, 55 71-80
Does safety information influence consumers’ preferences for controversial food products? (2018)
Kurt B Waldman and John M Kerr
Food quality and preference, 64 56-65
Preferences for legume attributes in maize-legume cropping systems in Malawi (2016)
Kurt B Waldman, David L Ortega, Robert B Richardson, Daniel C Clay and Sieglinde Snapp
Food security, 8 (6), 1087-1099
Maize seed choice and perceptions of climate variability among smallholder farmers (2017)
Kurt B Waldman, Jordan P Blekking, Shahzeen Z Attari and Tom P Evans
Global environmental change, 47 51-63
Confronting tradeoffs between agricultural ecosystem services and adaptation to climate change in Mali (2018)
Kurt B Waldman and Robert B Richardson
Ecological Economics, 150 184-193
Cognitive biases about climate variability in smallholder farming systems in Zambia (2019)
Kurt B Waldman, Noemi Vergopolan, Shahzeen Z Attari, Justin Sheffield, Lyndon D Estes, Kelly K Caylor ...
Weather, Climate, and Society, 11 (2), 369-383
The salience of climate change in farmer decision-making within smallholder semi-arid agroecosystems (2019)
KB Waldman, SZ Attari, DB Gower, SA Giroux, KK Caylor and TP Evans
Climatic Change, 156 (4), 527-543