Faculty

Shemaiah Gail Placencia

Shemaiah Gail P. Placencia

Assistant Professor 1,
BS ABE Program Coordinator

spplacencia@up.edu.ph

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ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

MS Agricultural Economics, University of the Philippines Los Baños

BS Agribusiness Economics, University of the Philippines Mindanao

SPECIALIZATION/AREAS OF INTEREST

Natural Resource Economics, Sustainable Value Chains

RESEARCH INTERESTS

SELECTED RESEARCH ENGAGEMENTS

  • Project Staff, Assessment of Nutrition and Development of of Appropriate Food Product Intervention Among Children in Flood Prone and Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas (GIDA) in Davao De Oro, Philippines, DOST-PCHRD, (ongoing)
  • Project Staff of the Agri-Aqua Value Chain Laboratory, a DOST-PCAARRD funded program (2023- Present)
  • Research Assistant, Sustainable Philippine Cavendish Banana Value Chain: Exploring Local Markets and Processed Product Development, September- December 2018
  • Research Assistant, Understanding constraints and opportunities to maximize contribution of seed quality to the goal of rice self-sufficiency in Region XI, December 2016- July 2017
  • Research Assistant, Sustainable Development of the Philippine Tuna Value Chain, Higher Education Regional Research Centre XI of the Commission on Higher Education, July –August 2016

SELECTED PUBLIC SERVICE ENGAGEMENTS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Loquias, M., Placencia, S. G., & Digal, L. (2025). Choice of Agri-credit Source Among Cavendish Banana Farmers: Evidence from Southern Philippines. Southeastern Philippines Journal of Research and Development, 30(1), 153-171.
  • Loquias, M.P., Digal, L.N., Placencia, S.G., et al. 2022. Factors affecting participation in contract farming of smallholder Cavendish banana farmers in the Philippines. Agricultural Research, 11: 146–154. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40003-021-00544-0.
  • Orbeta, M.G., Digal, L.N., Astronomo, I.J.T., Balgos, C.Q., Placencia, S.G.P., Loquias, M.P., Codog, P.E. 2021. Analyzing factors affecting the technical efficiency of small-scale seaweed farms using a two-stage double bootstrap DEA approach. Journal of Applied Aquaculture. DOI: 10.1080/10454438.2021.1945520.
  • Digal, L.N., Placencia, S.G.P. 2019. Retail demand estimation of organic rice and other rice variants in the Philippines and its implications to sustainability and self-sufficiency. Organic Agriculture. DOI: 10.1007/s13165-019-00259-1.
  • Digal, L.N., Placencia, S.G.P. 2019. Factors affecting the adoption of hybrid and high-yielding rice varieties in the Philippines. Agricultural Research. DOI: 10.1007/s40003-019-00403-z.
  • Digal, L.N., Placencia, S.G.P. 2018. Factors affecting the adoption of organic rice farming: The case of farmers in M’lang, North Cotabato, Philippines. Organic Agriculture, 9(2): 199-210.
  • Digal, L.N., Placencia, S.G.P. 2017. Factors affecting the adoption of sustainable tuna fishing practices: The case of municipal fishers in Maasim, Sarangani Province, Region 12, Philippines. Marine Policy, 77: 30-36.
  • Digal, L.N., Placencia, S.G.P., Balgos, C.Q. 2017. Market assessment on the incentives and disincentives for the adoption of sustainable practices along the tuna value chain in Region 12, Philippines. Marine Policy, 86: 39-46.
  • Digal, L.N., Ramil, H.S.I., Placencia, S.G.P., Balgos, C.Q. 2017. Technical efficiency of municipal fisherfolk in Maasim, Sarangani Province: A stochastic frontier and data envelopment approach. Asian Fisheries Science, 30: 169-184.
  • Digal, L.N., Astronomo, I.J.T., Placencia, S.G.P., Balgos, C.Q. 2017. Technical efficiency of handline fishers in Region 12, Philippines: Application of data envelopment analysis. Asian Fisheries Science, 30: 215-226.

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