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YBHG. PROFESOR DATIN PADUKA DR. FATIMAH BINTI MOHAMED ARSHAD
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INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY (ITAFOS)
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Fatimah Mohamed Arshad is a research fellow at the Laboratory of Agricultural and Food Policy Studies, ITAFoS, Universiti Putra Malaysia specializing in agricultural marketing and policy analyses. She is a member of the country?~@~Ys National Agriculture Advisory Council, Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry (later Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security renamed in 2023), since 2018. Her research areas include; agricultural marketing and economics issues, policy analyses, and agricultural market structure, conduct and performance. She has done various policy studies particularly on the role of agricultural subsidies and incentives in the paddy and rice industry, food security, agricultural cooperatives, food supply chain and marketing, price analyses and forecasting and commodity and agricultural sector modelling. She has developed a vintage model for estimating oil palm production, an econometric model of the Malaysian agriculture, system dynamics analyses on pertinent issues in agriculture such as food security, industrial commodity issues and modelling of the paddy and rice sector in Malaysia.

She believes that the role of the smallholders in agriculture can be further enhanced through knowledge empowerment and treading the path of collaborative commons particularly cooperatives for sustainability, equity and growth.

Further details:
https://sites.google.com/upm.edu.my/fatimahma
23 July 2023