Rate My Professor David Hadley

Dr. David Hadley serves as Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of New England's UNE Business School, part of the Faculty of Science, Agriculture, Business and Law. He earned his BSc (Hons) in Agricultural Economics from the University of Reading in 1993 and his PhD from the same institution in 1997. In addition to his teaching and research roles, he acts as Course Coordinator for Agribusiness and Economics (ECON) and Convener of the Agriculture and Environment research theme. Hadley teaches a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including ECON121/221 Food Security and Environmental Scarcity, ECON326/526 Benefit-Cost Analysis, and ECON329/429 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics.

Hadley is an applied environmental and agricultural economist whose principal research interests focus on environmental valuation methodologies, the valuation of ecosystem goods and services, and economic assessment techniques such as cost-benefit analysis, particularly for wetlands, river water quality, marine, and coastal environments. His work also encompasses efficiency and productivity analysis in agricultural production, incorporating environmental externalities, with recent emphasis on agricultural efficiency in Africa and the adoption of new techniques by smallholder farmers. Key publications include Bateman et al. (2013), 'Bringing Ecosystem Services into Economic Decision-Making: Land Use in the United Kingdom,' published in Science; Koomson, Villano, and Hadley (2020), 'Effect of Financial Inclusion on Poverty and Vulnerability to Poverty,' in Social Indicators Research; Temoso, Hadley, and Villano (2018), 'Sources of efficiency, productivity and output growth in Botswanan agriculture,' in Review of Development Economics; Hadley, Fleming, and Villano (2013), 'Is Input Mix Inefficiency Neglected in Agriculture? A Case Study of Pig-based Farming Systems in England and Wales,' in Journal of Agricultural Economics; and Nchinda et al. (2020), 'Assessing the impact of adoption of improved seed yam technology in Cameroon,' in Journal of Developing Areas. He supervises higher degree research students on topics including agricultural productivity and growth, integrating aquaculture with social-ecological systems, economics of improved seed yam production, and farmers' adaptive responses to climate change in the rubber sector.