Valentino Marini Govigli

Valentino Marini Govigli is Junior assistant professor (fixed term) at the Department of Agri-Food Sciences and Technologies, University of Bologna (Italy). He holds a PhD in Forest and Cultural ecology, a MRes in Ecology and Environmental Management, and a BAE in Economics. His fields of expertise are socioeconomics of agro-forest goods and services, consumer behaviour and stakeholder preferences, intangible ecosystem services assessment, social innovation brokerage and multi-actor engagement.

Valentino has more than eight year of experience in applied agro-forestry research. Currently he works in the H2020 Project FOODLAND and LOWINFOOD, exploring best practices for food nutrition and sustainable farming in African food value chains through behavioural and experimental economics.