Dr Daniel Chrisendo BSc (Bogor, Indonesia), MSc (Ghent & HU Berlin), PhD (Göttingen)

Assistant Professor in Rural and Agricultural Economics at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. Daniel conducts research on sustainable agriculture and rural development from the perspectives of socioeconomic feasibility, inclusivity, and resilience. He is an interdisciplinary scientist, having been awarded a BSc in Applied Meteorology, an MSc in Rural Development, and a PhD in Agricultural and Development Economics.

He has been researching a wide range of topics, including land-use change in Sumatra's tropical rainforest, the Javanese rice cropping calendar following Pacific Ocean temperatures, water scarcity in Jordanian villages hosting Syrian refugees, and livelihood resilience in the mountainous region of Tuscany. He conducted his postdoctoral research on global sustainable food systems at Aalto University (Finland), where he studied inequality and gender discrimination in agriculture.

Daniel has extensive fieldwork experience, especially in Asia and Africa, and has also worked as a consultant for Oxfam, the World Bank, and UNIDO. As part of academic services, he delivered public lectures at the University of Jambi (Indonesia), Egerton University (Kenya), the University of Zambia, Copperbelt University (Zambia), and Mulungushi University (Zambia).

Peer-reviewed scientific articles:

• Chrisendo, D., Heikonen, S., Piipponen, S., et al. (in press). Socioeconomic pathways toward sustainable food systems. Nature Food.
• Chrisendo, D., Niva, V., Hoffman, R., et al. (in press). Income inequality has increased for over two-thirds of the global population. Nature Sustainability.
• Hendrawan, D., Chrisendo, D., Mußhoff, O. (2024). Strengthening oil palm smallholder farmers’ resilience to future industrial challenges. Scientific Reports 14(1), 12105. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-62426-z
• Chrisendo, D., Piipponen, J., Heino, M., Kummu, M. (2023). Socioeconomic factors of global food loss. Agriculture & Food Security, Vol. 12, No. 23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-023-00426-4
• Ahvo, A., Heino, M., Sandström, V., Chrisendo, D., Jalava, M., Kummu, M. Agricultural input shocks affect crop yields more in the high-yielding areas of the world. (2023). Nature Food. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00873-z
• Chrisendo, D., Siregar, H., Qaim, M. (2022). Oil palm cultivation improves living standards and human capital formation in smallholder farm households. World Development, Vol. 159, 106034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106034
• Ruml, A., Chrisendo, D., Iddrisu, A., Karakara, A. A., Nuryartono, N., Osabuohien, E., Lay, J. (2022). Smallholders in agro-industrial production: Lessons for rural development from a comparative analysis of Ghana’s and Indonesia’s oil palm sectors. Land Use Policy, Vol. 119, 106196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106196
• Chrisendo, D., Siregar, H., Qaim, M. (2021). Oil palm and structural transformation of agriculture in Indonesia. Agricultural Economics, 52, pp. 849-862. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12658
• Chrisendo, D., Krishna, V. V., Siregar, H., Qaim, M. (2020). Land-use change, nutrition, and gender roles in Indonesian farm households. Forest Policy and Economics, Vol. 118, 102245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2020.102245
• Hidayati, R., Chrisendo, D. (2010).  Prediction of planting date and growing period using sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in Nino 3.4 for Indramayu district. Agromet, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.29244/j.agromet.24.2.1-8

Non-refereed scientific articles (datasets, method articles, books, teaching materials):

• Kummu, M., Niva, V., Chrisendo, D., et al. (2024). Global subnational GINI coefficient (income inequality) and gross national income (GNI) per capita PPP Datasets for 1990-2021. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14056855
• Shulist, P., Gingrich, S., Mufungwe, J., Chrisendo, D. (2024). Capital breeders: Finding a use for agricultural waste. Teaching materials. https://www.iveypublishing.ca/s/product/capital-breeders-finding-a-use-for-agricultural-waste/01tOF000005ltarYAA
• Chrisendo, D., Jalava, M., Deryng, D., Heino, M., Kummu, M. (2022). Screening protocol: Feasible socioeconomic measures to create sustainable food systems – A systematic review. Nature Protocol Exchange. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.pex-1863/v1
• Hofmann-Souki, S., Stupak, N., Turjman, J., [et al., including Chrisendo, D] (2017). Social aspects of water supply management in Jordan – Potential for participation of rural communities and implication for process design. https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/19484

Scientific blog articles:

• Chrisendo, D. (2025). Six reasons why every researcher should write blog posts. https://wdrg.aalto.fi/six-reasons-why-every-researcher-should-write-blog-posts/
• Chrisendo, D. (2024). To protect or to discriminate? Women’s participation in dirty, hard, and dangerous jobs. https://wdrg.aalto.fi/to-protect-or-to-discriminate-womens-participation-in-dirty-hard-and-dangerous-jobs/
• Chrisendo, D. (2023). When your value clash with your work: Teach something that does not convince you. https://wdrg.aalto.fi/when-your-values-clash-with-your-work-how-to-teach-something-that-does-not-convince-you/
• Chrisendo, D. (2022). The devil is in the details: Opportunities & harms of water hyacinth around Lake Victoria. https://wdrg.aalto.fi/the-devil-is-in-the-details-opportunities-and-harms-of-water-hyacinth-around-lake-victoria/