• Ph.D. Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, 2006.
• Master of Environmental Management, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, 2001.
• Diploma in International Development, Institute of Developing Economies Advanced School, 1999.
• Bachelor of Law, Keio University, 1995.
  

Dr. Uchida’s research interest is in understanding the microeconomic decisions in supply and demand for ecosystem services and how producers and consumers respond to market-based mechanisms for ecosystem services, especially in developing economies. She is conducting research in both China and the U.S. and utilizes household surveys, spatial data, econometric and numerical methods. Her recent research includes 1) understanding demand for farmland ecosystem services and designing a market for ecosystem services; 2) examining the cost-effectiveness of China's incentive mechanism to provide ecosystem services and its impact on poverty; and 3) finding efficient management of multiple forest stands when they jointly produce ecosystem services.

• Uchida, Emi, Jintao Xu, Zhigang Xu, and Scott Rozelle. “Are the Poor Benefiting from China's Land Conservation Program?” Environmental and Development Economics, Forthcoming.
• Xiangzheng Deng, Huang, Jikun, Scott Rozelle, and Emi Uchida. “Cultivated Land Conversion and Bioproductivity in China.” Journal of Land Use Policy, Forthcoming.
• Zhigang Xu, Jintao Xu, Xiangzheng Deng, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, Emi Uchida. (2006) “Grain for Green and Grain: A Case Study of the Conflict between Food Security and the Environment in China.” World Development, 34(1): 130-48.
• Uchida, Emi, Jintao Xu, and Scott Rozelle. (2005) “Grain for Green: Assessing the Cost-effectiveness and Sustainability of China's Conservation Set-aside Program.” Land Economics, 81(2): 247-264.
• Xiangzheng Deng, Huang, Jikun, Scott Rozelle, and Emi Uchida. (2005) “Cultivated Land Conversion and Bio-productivity in China,” In China's Agricultural and Rural Development in the Early 21st Century. Sonntag, Bernard H. et al. eds. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research. Canberra, Australia. Pp.453-468.
• Uchida, Emi, Scott Rozelle, Jikun Huang, and Xiangzheng Deng. (2004) “Changes in Cultivated Land Due to Urbanization: China in an International Perspective.” Policy report presented at the Second Expert Meeting of Agricultural and Rural Development, China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED).
• Yoda, Emi. (2001) Economic Benefits of Coral Reefs to Small-scale Fishers: A Case Study in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Unpublished Master's Project, Duke University, Durham, NC. Randall Kramer, Advisor.
• Yoda, Emi. (1999) Policy-based finance for pollution abatement in Japan. Unpublished thesis. Institute of Developing Economies Advanced School, Tokyo, Japan.