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Dr Huiyi Yang
  • Qualifications: BSc, PhD
  • Biography:

    Huiyi Yang joined  NRI in May 2020. His research focuses on using modelling approaches to understand climate change and air pollution impacts on crop production and food security, especially for those regions most vulnerable to climate change.  He also has interests in assessing uncertainty and adaptation approaches to climate change.

    Huiyi obtained his BSc and PhD from the University of Leeds. He initially trained in climate and atmospheric science and then expanded his research into climate change impacts on agriculture through his work at the University of Exeter and Rothamsted Research. This broadening of expertise has made  his work more interdisciplinary and has positioned him well for  contributing substantively to this growing area of research.

    Huiyi has extensive experience in numerical modelling. He developed a new crop (i.e. winter wheat) within the Met Office Land Surface Model (LSM) JULES/JULES-Crop and evaluated the air pollution impacts on crop yield/production and the regional carbon cycle. He used the GLAM crop model to access the crop yield and failure rates for the East Asian Monsoon region under a geoengineered climate. He also used the SPACSYS model to simulate the crop rotation system for the Loess region.

    Huiyi began his career studying radiation effects on the atmosphere using an LEM model focusing on evaluating the response of the atmosphere to using observed ice particle shapes in radiation rather than the often-used idealised shapes.   Huiyi has been involved in many international modelling projects, including developing a case study for a model inter-comparison project on cirrus clouds (GCSS WG2).
  • Selected Publications:
    • Yang, Huiyi, Dobbie, Steven, Ramirez-Villegas, Julian, Chen, Bing, Qiu, Shaojun, Ghosh, Sat and Challinor, Andy (2020) ‘South India projected to be susceptible to high future groundnut failure rates for future climate change and geo-engineered scenarios’, Science of The Total Environment. Elsevier, 747, p. 141240. doi: 10.1016/J.SCITOTENV.2020.141240. GALA Link: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/28992/
    • Chen, Changqing, van Groenigen, Kees Jan, Yang, Huiyi, Hungate, Bruce A., Yang, Bing, Tian, Yunlu, Chen, Jin, Dong, Wenjun, Huang, Shan, Deng, Aixing, Jiang, Yu and Zhang, Weijian (2020) ‘Global warming and shifts in cropping systems together reduce China’s rice production’, Global Food Security. Elsevier, 24, p. 100359. doi: 10.1016/J.GFS.2020.100359. GALA Link: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/28847/
    • Chen, Bing, Wu, Chenglai, Liu, Xiaohong, Chen, Liangfu, Wu, Jian, Yang, H., Luo, Tao, Wu, Xue, Jiang, Yiquan, Jiang, Lei, Brown, Hunter Y., Lu, Zheng, Fan, Wenxuan, Lin, Guo, Sun, Bo and Wu, Mingxuan (2019) ‘Seasonal climatic effects and feedbacks of anthropogenic heat release due to global energy consumption with CAM5’, Climate Dynamics. Springer, 52(11), pp. 6377–6390. doi: 10.1007/s00382-018-4528-1.GALA Link: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/28848/
    • Chen, Ji, Luo, Yiqi, García-Palacios, Pablo, Cao, Junji, Dacal, Marina, Zhou, Xuhui, Li, Jianwei, Xia, Jianyang, Niu, Shuli, Yang, Huiyi, Shelton, Shelby, Guo, Wei and van Groenigen, Kees Jan (2018) ‘Differential responses of carbon-degrading enzyme activities to warming: Implications for soil respiration’, Global Change Biology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 24(10), pp. 4816–4826. doi: 10.1111/gcb.14394.GALA Link: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/28849/
    • Gao, Yao, Markkanen, Tiina, Aurela, Mika, Mammarella, Ivan, Thum, Tea, Tsuruta, Aki, Yang, Huiyi and Aalto, Tuula (2017) ‘Response of water use efficiency to summer drought in a boreal Scots pine forest in Finland’, Biogeosciences, 14(18), pp. 4409–4422. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-4409-2017.GALA Link: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/28868/
    • Yang, Huiyi, Dobbie, Steven, Ramirez-Villegas, Julian, Feng, Kuishuang, Challinor, Andrew J., Chen, Bing, Gao, Yao, Lee, Lindsay, Yin, Yan, Sun, Laixiang, Watson, James, Koehler, Ann-Kristin, Fan, Tingting and Ghosh, Sat (2016) ‘Potential negative consequences of geoengineering on crop production: A study of Indian groundnut’, Geophysical Research Letters. doi: 10.1002/2016GL071209.GALA Link: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/28850/
    • Butt, E. W., Rap, A., Schmidt, A., Scott, C. E., Pringle, K. J., Reddington, C. L., Richards, N. A. D., Woodhouse, M. T., Ramirez-Villegas, J., Yang, H., Vakkari, V., Stone, E. A., Rupakheti, M., S. Praveen, P., G. van Zyl, P., P. Beukes, J., Josipovic, M., Mitchell, E. J. S., Sallu, S. M., Forster, P. M., and Spracklen, D. V.: The impact of residential combustion emissions on atmospheric aerosol, human health, and climate, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 873–905, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-873-2016, 2016.GALA Link: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/28865/
    • Yang, Huiyi, Dobbie, Steven, Herbert, Ross, Connolly, Paul, Gallagher, Martin, Ghosh, Sat, Al-Jumur, Sardar M. R. K. and Clayton, James (2012) ‘The effect of observed vertical structure, habits, and size distributions on the solar radiative properties and cloud evolution of cirrus clouds’, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 138(666), pp. 1221–1232. doi: 10.1002/qj.973. GALA Link: under review
    • Yang, H., Dobbie, S., Mace, G. G., Ross, A. and Quante, M. (2012) ‘GEWEX Cloud System Study (GCSS) cirrus cloud working group: development of an observation-based case study for model evaluation’, Geoscientific Model Development. Copernicus GmbH, 5(3), pp. 829–843. doi: 10.5194/gmd-5-829-2012. GALA Link: under review
  • Research / Scholarly Interests:

    Huiyi’s research interests focus on interaction between agriculture, climate and humans. He is interested in developing a better understanding of:

    • Development and evaluation of LSM and crop models by using observational data from field experiments.
    • The impact of climate (e.g CMIP, GeoMIP etc) and environmental factors (ozone, aerosol, etc) on crop yield/production, and the consequent social-economic impacts.
    • Evaluating the feasibility of adaptations under different weather conditions especially brought about by climate change, such as drought or high temperature.
    • Regional and global impacts on water, carbon, and the nitrogen cycle due to climate change.

    Field experimental science is fundamental and of vital importance for underpinning modelling work. This is still the key challenge for modelling communities to understand the impact of climate and environmental changes on agriculture and human societies properly. To fulfil the gap, Huiyi has collaborated closely with field scientists to develop and evaluate models. Huiyi is also interested in combining statistics with LSM and crop models to improve model predictions.
  • Teaching Programmes:

    Huiyi has past experience contributing to the following teaching at the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds:

    • Computer Systems and Programming (SOEE2240)
    • Intermediate Mathematics for Env Scientists (SOEE1300)
    • Advanced Mathematics for Env Scientitsts (SOEE1310)
    • Advanced Mathematics for Scientists (SOEE2340)
  • Research Projects:
    • 2018-2021: Rothamsted Research. Research grant, The critical zone ecosystem service integrated system model of the Loess Plateau (CZIMLP)
    • 2017-2019: University of Exeter. Research grant, The Climate Science for Service Partnership China (CSSP-China) Air pollution risk to agriculture and forest health in China.
    • 2012-2015: Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. Research grant, Parameterization of ice habit vertical structure in GCM (PI).
  • Greenwich Academic Literature Archive (GALA) link: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/user/8216
  • Awards:

    Organising committee of UK-China Oversea Scholar Conference (UCOS), Leeds, UK, (2015).
  • External Profiles:

    ORCID

    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2825-3750
Fellow in Agri-environmental Modelling
Dr June Y T Po
  • Qualifications: BSc, MSc, PhD
  • Biography:

    June joined NRI in January 2020. Before joining NRI, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Laval University (Canada). Her postdoctoral research focused on the rural livelihoods of ethnic minorities who produce traditionally distilled rice and maize alcohol in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands.

    June uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore issues regarding social-ecological resilience, gender and development, social norms and values, adaptive capacity, and resource governance that are integral to the livelihoods of marginalised communities. She has research experience in sustainable rural livelihoods, food and nutritional security, inter-institutional dynamics in natural resource governance, biomass cooking fuel use and population health. She has field experience from Bangladesh, India, Kenya, and Vietnam.

    June graduated from the University of British Columbia in 2008 with a double degree in Biochemistry and Psychology. She worked on mRNA turnover in African Trypanosomes at the Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie Heidelberg, bioluminescence imaging of Toxoplasma gondii infection at CIHR-UBC Translational Research in Infectious Diseases, and Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation as an undergraduate research assistant. She gained a MSc in Global Health and Population in 2010, mentored by Prof. Richard Levins and Prof. S V Subramanian, at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. After the MSc completion, she worked at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies as an analyst. She contributed to the development of an estimation of household permanent income from physical assets ownership in LMIC and an index of reproductive health laws from 1960 to 2009 in 186 countries. In 2017, she gained a PhD in social-ecological systems and food security, supervised by Prof. Gordon Hickey at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
  • Selected Publications:
    • Picchioni, F, Po, JYT, Forsythe, L. (2021). Strengthening resilience in response to COVID-19: a call to integrate social reproduction in sustainable food systems. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 42(1-2): 28-36.
    • Jellason, NP, Robinson, EJZ, Chapman, ASA, Neina, D, Devenish, AJM, Po, JYT, Adolph, B. (2021). A systematic review of drivers and constraints on agricultural expansion in sub-Saharan Africa. Land, 10(3):332.
    • Po, JYT and Hickey, GM. (2020). Cross-scale relationships between social capital and women's participation in decision-making on the farm: A multilevel study in semi-arid Kenya. Journal of Rural Studies, 78: 333-349.
    • Po, JYT, Langill, J, Turner, S and Michaud, J. (2020). Distilling culture into commodity? The emergent homemade alcohol trade and gendered livelihoods in upland northern Vietnam. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 21(5): 397-415.
    • Po, JYT, Saint Ville, A, Rahman, HMT, and Hickey, GM. (Eds.) (2019) On Institutional diversity and interplay in natural resource governance. Society and Natural Resources. DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2019.1667463
    • Po, JYT, Bukania, Z, Muhammad, L, and Hickey, GM. (2019) Associations between women’s agricultural decision-making and child nutritional status in semi-arid Kenya: an empirical study. Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition. DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2019.1617214
    • Saint Ville, A., Po, JYT, Sen, A, Bui, A, and Melgar Quiñonez, H. (Eds.) (2019) Special section: Food security and Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES): Ensuring progress by 2030. Food Security. DOI: 10.1007/s12571-019-00936-9
    • Rahman, HMT, Po, JYT, Saint Ville, AS, Brunet, ND, Clare, S, Pigford, A, Darling, S, and Hickey, GM. (2019) Legitimacy of different knowledge types in natural resource governance and their functions in inter-institutional gaps. Society and Natural Resources. DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2019.1658140
    • Po, JYT, and Hickey, GM. (2018) Local institutions and smallholder women’s access to land resources in semi-arid Kenya. Land Use Policy, 76: 252-263. DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.03.055
    • Rahman, HMT, Saint Ville, AS, Song, AM, Po, JYT, Berthet, E, Brammer, JR, Brunet, ND, Jayaprakash, G,  Lowitt KN, Rastogi, A, Reed, G, and Hickey, GM. (2017) Inter-institutional Gap Framework: Addressing the challenges of multi-level rules for governance in social-ecological systems. International Journal of the Commons, 11(2): 823–853. DOI: 10.18352/ijc.758
    • Po, JYT, Finlay, JE, Brewster, MB and Canning, D. (2012) Estimating Household Permanent Income from Ownership of Physical Assets. Program of Global Demography of Aging Working Paper Series, #97.
    •  Finlay, JE, Canning, D, and Po, JYT. (2012). Reproductive Health Laws Around the World. Harvard University Program of Global Demography of Aging Working Paper Series #96.
    • Po, JYT, and Subramanian, SV. (2011) Mortality burden and socioeconomic status in India. PLoS ONE 6(2): e16844. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016844
    • Po, JYT, FitzGerald, JM, and Carlsten, C. (2011) Respiratory disease associated with solid biomass fuel exposure in rural women and children: systematic review and meta-analysis. Thorax, 66(3):232-239. DOI: 10.1136/thx.2010.147884.
    • Wurst, M, Robles, A, Po, J, Luu, VD, Brems, S, Marentije, M, … Clayton, C. (2009) An RNAi screen of the RRM-domain proteins of Trypanosoma brucei. Molecular Biochemical Parasitology, 163(1):61-65.
    • Clayton, C, Schwede, A, Stewart, M, Robles, A, Benz, C, Po, J, … Archer, S. (2008) Control of mRNA degradation in trypanosomes. Biochemical Society Transactions, 36(3):520-521.

    Book Section

    • Quan, J, Forsythe, L, Po, JYT. (2021) Advancing women’s position by recognizing and strengthening customary land rights: Lessons from community-based land interventions in Mozambique. In U.E. Chigbu (Ed.), Land Governance and Gender: The Tenure-Gender Nexus in Land Management and Land Policy (pp. ). CABI (in press)
    • Saint-Ville, A, Po, JYT, Sanatan, A. (2021) RastafarI and the formal state in their struggles for food sovereignty: A case of Jamaica in the English-speaking Caribbean. In A Pigford & HMT Rahman (Eds.), Institutional Diversity and Environmental Sustainability. CRC Press. (under review)
    • Po, JYT, and Bukania, Z. (2016) Land to feed my grand-children: grand-mothers’ challenge to access land resources in dryland Kenya. In L. Brownhill, et al. (Eds.), Food Security, Gender and Resilience: Improving Smallholder and Subsistence Farming (pp. 55-72). London, UK: Earthscan.
    • James, C, and Po, JYT. (2016) Banking on change: an ethnographic exploration into rural finance as a gendered resilience practice among smallholders. In: L. Brownhill, et al. (Eds.), Food Security, Gender and Resilience: Improving Smallholder and Subsistence Farming (pp. 90-104). London, UK: Earthscan.
  • Research / Scholarly Interests:

    Dr June Po has a keen interest in understanding feedbacks and dynamics of social-ecological resilience. In particular, topics on:

    • transformations to sustainability
    • agency, power, and gender dynamics
    • sustainable food systems
    • planetary boundaries and health
    • institutional interplay in natural resource governance
    • diverse and hybrid knowledge systems

    She is also interested in operationalising action research on conservation/ regenerative agriculture and climate change, incorporating insights from soil science, agroecology, development geography, political ecology, and co-construction of knowledge between technical experts and other societal groups.
  • Teaching Programmes:

    MSc course, guest lecturer, NRI:

    • Agricultural and Natural Resources Innovation for Development, Agriculture for Sustainable Development and Global Environmental Change programme

    BSc course, guest lecturer, Faculty of Education, Health and Human Sciences:

    • Introduction to Public Health and Health Promotion
    • Community Development and Engagement

    Workshop: three-day qualitative research methods seminar in collaboration with colleagues from NRI, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and University of Reading. The research seminar is tailored towards the research proposals and methodological needs of African doctoral students among the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM).
  • Research Projects:

    2021-2026: UK Food Systems Centre for Doctoral Training

    Funding: UKRI Strategic Priority Fund

    Led by Professor Andrew Westby with a consortium of 9 partner institutions, I contributed as PhD Programme Lead and CDT co-manager.

    2020-2022: SENTINEL: Social and Environmental Trade-Offs in African Agriculture

    Funding: Global Challenge Research Fund

    I collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of researchers from the UK, Ghana, Zambia, and Ethiopia to examine the trade-offs of forest conservation and agricultural expansion.

    2021-2022: African Agriculture Knowledge Transfer Partnership

    Funding: Innovate UK - co-Investigator

    This partnership between NRI, Egerton University, and Anolei Women Camel Milk Co-operative aims to expand camel milk commodity value chain in East Africa through improved production, processing, storage and novel product development, such as a semi-soft cheese called “Camelbert”, with a focus on knowledge and technology adoption, and women’s entrepreneurial empowerment to the proposed research.

    2018-2019: Distilling livelihoods: traditional alcohol and livelihood diversification among ethnic minorities in the uplands of northern Vietnam

    Funding: Fonds de recherche du Québec Société et culture – Postdoctoral Fellowship

    In the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands, the growing middle class of Kinh lowlanders and the expansion of the tourism industry in the uplands has increased the demand for traditionally distilled alcohol produced by ethnic minority communities. This research explores how traditional ecological knowledge of local alcohol within Hmong and Yao ethnic minority communities is changing under the context of state cultural preservation policy and development goals.

    2015-2019: Developing a framework to address the challenges of multi-level rules of governance in social-ecological systems

    Funding: Québec Centre for Biodiversity Science

    Building on Elinor Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development framework, a group of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows at the Sustainable Futures Research Laboratory developed and applied the Inter-Institutional Gap framework on four cases of natural resource governance in Bangladesh, Canada, India, and South Korea. This research has resulted in a peer-reviewed article in the International Journal of the Commons and a special issue in Society & Natural Resources.

    2012-2016: Innovating for Resilient Farming Systems in Semi-arid Kenya

    Funding: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Global Affairs Canada (previously named Canadian International Development Agency) (2011-14), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2012-15), Réseau de recherche en santé des populations du Québec (2015), and Margaret A. Gilliam Fellowship in Food Security (2016).

    As a doctoral researcher, June examined the relationships between Kamba women’s access to land resources and child growth, focusing on local, gendered institutions on land allocation, women’s agricultural decision-making, and social capital. She also acquired external funding to disseminate research findings to local participants, primarily Kamba women and farmers, after project completion.
  • Greenwich Academic Literature Archive (GALA) link: https://gala.gre.ac.uk/view/authors/7834.html
  • Responsibilities:

    Staff Mental Health Champion
  • Awards:
    • 2018 – 2019 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Fonds de recherche du Québec société et culture
    • 2015 – 2016 Margaret A. Gilliam Fellowship in Food Security
    • 2015 Seed Grant, Québec Centre for Biodiversity Science (Team applicant)
    • 2015 Research Dissemination Grant, Concours Regroupement Stratégique en Santé Mondiale du Réseau de Recherche en Santé des Populations du Québec
    • 2012-2015 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Doctoral Scholarship
    • 2009 World Bank Grant Competition South Asia Regional Development Marketplace on Nutrition (Team applicant)

    Membership

    • Member American Association of Geographers
  • External Profiles:

    ORCID

    https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6124-8235

    LinkedIn

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/june-po-05aa058/

    Google Scholar

    https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=xOmJv8YAAAAJ&hl=en
Phone: +44 (0)1634 88 3644
Senior Lecturer in Gender and Diversity in Food Systems
Dr Kate Wellard
  • Qualifications: BA, MSc, PhD
  • Biography:

    Dr Kate Wellard is Principal Research Fellow at the Natural Resources Institute in the Livelihoods and Institutions Department. She joined NRI in 2012, having previously worked for the Institute in 1996-7. Kate has held positions at various UK and African universities and development organisations, including: Lecturer at the University of Malawi (1992-6; 2006-9); Social Development Advisor at ITAD Ltd (2004-6); Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) (1989-92); and ODI Fellow in Tanzania (1986-9).

    She has an MSc in Agricultural Economics from the University of Reading, and a PhD in Development Studies from the University of East Anglia for a thesis on the interactions of policies, farmer practices and environmental factors in southern Malawi.

    Her research centres on the social, institutional and policy aspects of agricultural innovation and smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has led research and development programmes with governments, national and regional agricultural research organisations, universities and non-governmental organisations. Funders include: the World Bank, Department for International Development, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, Flanders International Cooperation Agency, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, McKnight Foundation, Self Help Africa and Action Aid.

    Kate has worked in more than ten countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and in India. She has long-term overseas experience in Tanzania as an ODI Fellow with the Ministry of Agriculture, Zanzibar, and Malawi, carrying out PhD research and long-term research on local institutions and integrated soil fertility management and teaching with Bunda College, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (formerly University of Malawi).

    Kate teaches a Masters-level course on Agricultural Innovation and Development with NRI’s Masters degree courses.
  • Selected Publications:
    • Wellard, K., Kambewa, D. and Snapp, S. (2012) 'Farmers on the Frontline: Adaptation to Climate Change in Malawi' in Brokensha, D., Castro, P. and Taylor D. (eds) Climate Change and Threatened Communities. Rugby: Practical Action, Ch. 4
    • Wellard, K., Rafanomezana, J., Nyirenda, M., Okotel, M. and Subbey, V. (2012) 'A Review of Community Extension approaches to innovation for improved livelihoods in Ghana, Uganda and Malawi' Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension 19:1, 21-35
    • Sumberg, J., Anyidoho, N., Leavy, J., te Lintelo, D and K. Wellard (2012) 'Introduction: The Young People and Agriculture 'Problem' in Africa' IDS Bulletin 43: 6, 1-8
    • Kanyama Phiri, G. and Wellard, K. (2008) 'An Introduction to Agricultural Systems' Chapter 1 in Snapp, S. and Pound, B. (eds) Agricultural Systems: Agroecology and Rural Innovation for Development. Amsterdam: Elseiver Science Academic Press.
    • Snapp, S., Kanyama Phiri, G., Kamanga, B., Gilbert, R. and Wellard, K. (2002) 'Farmer and researcher partnerships in Malawi: Developing soil fertility technologies for the near-term and far-term' Experimental Agriculture 38: 411-431
    • Grimble, R. and Wellard, K. (1997) 'Stakeholder Methodologies in Natural Resource Management: A Review of Principles, Contexts, Experiences and Opportunities'. Journal of Agricultural Systems 55(2):173-193 Special Issue on Socioeconomic Methodologies in Renewable Natural Resources Research.
    • Wellard, K. and Copestake, J. (eds.) (1993) Non-governmental Organisations and the State in Africa: Rethinking Roles in Sustainable Agricultural Development. London: Routledge.
    • Farrington, J. and Bebbington, A. with Wellard, K. and Lewis, D. (1993) Reluctant Partners: Non-Governmental Organisations, the State and Sustainable Agricultural Development. London: Routledge
    • de Boef, W., Amanor, K. and Wellard, K. with Bebbington, A. (eds.) (1993) Cultivating Knowledge: Small Farmers, Researchers and Local Crop Development. London: IT Pubs.
  • Research / Scholarly Interests:

    Kate Wellard’s main research interests and areas of expertise include:

    • Social, economic and institutional analysis of agricultural innovation systems
    • Analysis and support of agricultural policy processes
    • Design and implementation of monitoring, evaluation and learning in agricultural and rural development programmes
    • Development of participatory methodologies, training and capacity building for rural and urban livelihoods analysis
    • Participatory, multi-disciplinary approaches to smallholder agroecological intensification
    • Agriculture-climate change interactions at farmer and community levels
    • Agriculture-nutrition nexus, from household gender relations to global policy
  • Research Projects:

    Kate has led several recent research programmes:

    Benchmarking legume policies in Malawi, Tanzania and Mozambique. Funded by McKnight Foundation (2011-12). The research analysed national and regional policies and policy processes impacting on grain legume development. It identified issues, actors and narratives around key policy areas - including seed systems, soil fertility and nutrition – as well as policy spaces for engagement. Research findings have been edited as policy briefings and used in on-going debates, particularly on soil fertility and nutrition policies, with parliamentarians and civil society in southern Africa.

    Scaling-up Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM): An Assessment of Economic, Extension and Policy Strategies to Improve Human Nutrition and Soil Fertility. Funded by McKnight Foundation (2009-11).The research studied local innovation systems in Malawi and revealed important farmer and community responses to, and adaptation of, grain legume inter-cropping technologies under uncertainty. Findings have informed academic debate (published as a book chapter in Castro et al. (2012) eds. Climate Change and Threatened Communities) and wider ISFM scaling-up initiatives and policies as an alternative to the dominant prevailing farm input-subsidy narrative.

    Assessment of community extension roles in increasing food security in Ghana, Uganda and Malawi. Funded by Self-Help Africa (2010-11). The research examined the operation and impact of community-based extension and presented new insights into a widely promoted, but hitherto under-studied, concept. Research findings have informed research (in an Award-winning article in the Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension) and design of development programmes by government and NGOs.
  • Greenwich Academic Literature Archive (GALA) link: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/view/authors/5963.html
  • Awards:

    Award for Best Article 2013, Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension for: ‘A Review of community-based extension approaches to innovation for improved livelihoods’.
  • External Profiles:

    ORCID

    https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4397-5361
Phone: +44 (0)1634 88 3015
Principal Research Fellow - Natural Resource Management and Innovations
Dr Laxmi Prasad Pant Phone: +44 (0)1634 88 3651
Senior Lecturer/Researcher Human Geography/Food Systems
Dr Lora Forsythe
  • Qualifications: BA (Hons), MSc, PhD
  • Biography:

    Lora is lead of the Gender and Social Difference programme and research group, and specialises in inequalities in relation to agriculture, food systems and natural resource-based livelihoods. Lora's expertise in gender and social difference research and project implementation lies in agricultural livelihoods and market participation; food, nutrition and health systems; climate change; food cultures; land and natural resources rights and gender-based violence. Her core skills include mixed-method and interdisciplinary research (e.g. longitudinal interviewing, in-depth case studies, gender analysis); participatory methodologies and action research (e.g. social auditing, participatory video, transect walks, needs-assessments); capacity strengthening, and monitoring, evaluation, learning (MEL) and impact methodologies. Lora has long term experience in India, Canada, and the United Kingdom, and short-term projects throughout Africa, Central and South America.

    Lora also contributes her expertise to teaching and learning activities at the Institute within the UK and internationally, including Master's programmes, facilitating departmental contributions to the NRI seminar series, delivery of short courses, Training of Trainers, and supervision of post-graduate students.

    Lora was also awarded the University of Greenwich’s Outstanding Achievement in Research Award in 2018.
  • Selected Publications:
    • Bulungu ALS, Palla L, Priebe J, Forsythe L, Katic P, Varley G, Galinda BD, Sarah N, Nambooze J, Wellard K, Ferguson EL. (2022) Validation of an Automated Wearable Camera-Based Image-Assisted Recall Method and the 24-h Recall Method for Assessing Women’s Time Allocation in a Nutritionally Vulnerable Population: The Case of Rural Uganda. Nutrients 14(9):1833. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14091833
    • Quan, J., Forsythe, L., Po, J. (2021). Advancing women’s position by recognising and strengthening customary land rights in Land Governance and Gender. Namibia: CABI. DOI: 10.1079/9781789247664.0006
    • Bulungu, A.L.S., Palla, L., Priebe, J., Forsythe, L., Katic, P., Varley. G., Galinda, B.D. Sarah, N., Nambooze, J., Wellard, K., Ferguson, E.L. (2021) Validation of a life-logging wearable camera method and the 24-hour diet recall method for assessing maternal and child dietary diversity. British Journal of Nutrition. DOI: 10.1017/S0007114520003530
    • Picchioni, F., Po, J. Forsythe, L (2021). Strengthening resilience in response to COVID-19: A call to integrate social reproduction in sustainable food systems Canadian Journal of Development Studies. DOI: 10.1080/02255189.2020.1858761 
    • Forsythe, L., Tufan, H., Bouniol, A., Kleih, U., and Fliedel, G. (2021). An interdisciplinary and participatory methodology to improve user acceptability of root, tuber and banana varieties through development of food product profiles quality characteristics. International Journal of Food Science and Technology, 56:1. (Online) DOI: 10.1111/ijfs.14680
    • Aurélie Bechoff, Lora Forsythe, Maria Njau, Adrienne Martin, Gaspar Audifas, Adebayo Abass & Keith Tomlins (2020) Women Eat More Rice and Banana: The Influence of Gender and Migration on Staple Food Choice in East Africa, Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 59:5, 506-524, DOI: 10.1080/03670244.2020.1755278
    • Kawarazuka, N., Prain, N., Forsythe, L., Mayanja, S., Mudege, N., Babini, C. and Polar, V. (2018) Gender in Agricultural Mechanization: key guiding questions.
    • Forsythe, L., Njau, M., Martin, A., Bechoff, A. and Tomlins, K. (2017) Staple food cultures: a case study of cassava ugali preferences in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Natural Resources Institute and CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB). RTB Working Paper.
    • Forsythe, L., Posthumus, H. and Martin, A. (2016) A crop of one's own? Women's experiences of cassava commercialization in Nigeria and Malawi. Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security, 1 (2):2. pp. 110-128. ISSN 2413-922X (Online)
    • Forsythe, L., Martin, A.M. and Posthumus, H. (2015) Cassava market development: a path to women's empowerment or business as usual? Food Chain, 5 (1-2). pp. 11-27. ISSN 2046-1879 (Print), 2046-1887 (Online) (doi:10.3362/2046-1887.2015.003)
    • Gender and Drylands Development - Empowering Women for Change Series:
      • Nelson, V., Forsythe, L., and Morton, J. (2015) Synthesis of thematic papers from the series 'Women's empowerment in the drylands. UNCCD and UNDP, Greenwich.
      • Forsythe, L., Morton, J., Nelson, V., Quan, J., Martin, A. and Hartog, M. (2015) Strengthening dryland women's land rights: local contexts, global change. UNCCD, UNDP, Greenwich.
      • Forsythe, L., Morton, J., Nelson, V., Martin, A. and Hartog, M. (2015) Gender and drylands governance: Empowering women for change. UNDP, UNCCD, Greenwich.
      • Nelson, V., Morton, J., Forsythe, L., Martin, A. and Hartog, M. (2015) Achieving dryland women's empowerment: environmental resilience and social transformation. UNCCD, UNDP, Greenwich.
    • Forsythe, L., Manda, M. N., Mwangwela, A.M. and Bennett, B. (2015) Beliefs, taboos and minor crop value chains: the case of Bambara Groundnut in Malawi. Food, Culture and Society, 18 (3). pp. 501-517. ISSN 1552-8014 (Print), 1751-7443 (Online) (doi:10.1080/15528014.2015.1043112).
    • Forsythe, L. and Wellard, K. (2014) Final Evaluation for Women's Right to Land Project for ActionAid.
    • Forsythe, L., and Willoughby, R. (2011) Farming for Impact: A case study of Smallholder agriculture in Rwanda. Concern Worldwide.
    • Forsythe, L., Kaitano, V. and A.M. Martin (2010) Gender and Diversity Audit Malawi.
    • Forsythe, L., Mangheni, N. and Martin, A.M. (2010) Women in Higher Agricultural Education, RUFORUM.
    • Forsythe, L., Martin, A.M. and Stathers, T. (2010) Gender and Diversity summary recommendations for the Great Lakes Cassava Initiative.
    • Forsythe, L., Martin, A.M. and Stathers, T. (2010) Gender and Diversity summary report for the Great Lakes Cassava Initiative.
    • Forsythe, L., Shayo, R. and Martin, A.M. (2010) Gender and Diversity Audit, Tanzania. C:AVA and GLCI Projects.
    • Kopiyo, G. and Forsythe, L. (2010) Great Lakes Cassava Initiative Gender and Diversity Audit Kenya.
    • Mangheni, M., Ekirikubinza- Tibatemwa, L. and Forsythe, L. (2010) Gender issues in agricultural education within African universities. Gender Background Paper for the Ministerial Conference on Higher Education in Agriculture in Africa.
    • Mukasa, B. Forsythe, L. and Martin, A.M. (2010) Gender and Diversity Audit Report for Great Lakes Cassava Initiative and Cassava: Adding Value for Africa. Uganda.
    • Forsythe, L., Abdulsalam-Saghir, P. and Martin, A.M. (2009) Gender and Diversity Audit Nigeria.
    • Forsythe, L., Quartey, Q., and Martin, A.M. (2009) Gender and Diversity Audit Ghana.
  • Research / Scholarly Interests:

    Lora's main research interests are in relation to the socio-economic, cultural and gender dynamics of rural livelihoods. This encompasses developing rights-based methodologies and mixed methods to understand and address inequitable social norms and power relations in a number of different development contexts, in particular value chain development and land and natural resources rights.

    Lora is also interested in using her expertise for monitoring and evaluation and impact assessments, in order to help foster learning-oriented, equitable, accountable and transparent organisational cultures.
  • Research Projects:

    Leader of Work Package on understanding the drivers of trait preferences and the development of multi-user Root Tuber and Banana (RTB) product profiles, as part of the RTB Products for End User Preferences (RTBfoods) Project (2017 - present). The work package involves interdisciplinary teams of food technologists, economists and gender specialists in conducting innovative research along RTB value chains to help inform breeding priorities. The project scope includes the study of cassava, yam, sweet potato, plantain and tropical potato value chains across Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Uganda. Profiling the preferences of value chain actors with their gender-differentiated trait and product preferences, in addition to examining household decision making in relation to varietal preferences, is expected to support breeding programmes in improving the adoption of new varieties and to help ensure food security and income generation across sub-Saharan Africa.

    Using Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) to understand the relationships between labour-saving agricultural innovations, women’s time use and maternal and child nutrition outcomes in Uganda (2016 – present). Gender Lead for the study of the impact of labour-saving technology on women’s time use and nutrition outcomes, and the effectiveness of different ICTs in measuring time use and lifestyle data in the context of agri-nutrition interventions. Two inter-disciplinary digital tools, GPS wearable cameras and interactive voice response diaries will be trialled for use in Uganda. The research is being conducted in partnership with the London School of Health and Tropical Medicine.

    Evaluation of Oxfam’s Female Food Hero project in Ethiopia (2016 – 2017). Designed and led an advocacy evaluation of Oxfam's Female Food Hero project in Ethiopia. The evaluation involved interviews with female food heroes, policy makers and local stakeholders. A contribution tracing approach was used for the methodology. A paper and blog about conducting advocacy work in closed-political contexts is under development and will be presented at the American Evaluation Association Annual Conference in late 2017.

    Gender-Responsive Researchers Equipped for Agricultural Transformation (GREAT) programme (2016-2017). Trainer, lecturer and mentor for conducting gender-responsive research in agriculture, in order to improve the outcomes for smallholder women farmers, entrepreneurs and farmer organisations.

    Gender and Livelihoods Researcher, Optimising Cassava Processing Technology, in partnership with CIAT, IITA and CIRAD (2014-present). Qualitative research on the socio-economic and gender impacts of enhancing cassava processing technology conducted under the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) in Nigeria. This work complements research undertaken in Cassava Growth Markets and C:AVA projects (described below).

    Work Package Leader (Gender and Livelihoods), European Commission, Cassava Growth Markets (2012 - 2017), Nigeria, Malawi, Uganda. Work Package leader on 'maximising gender and livelihood impacts of value chain development of cassava'. Country focus: Nigeria, Uganda and Malawi. This work package will provide insights into possible shifts in power relations and access to resources as market-led innovations enter the value chain. This work also aims to collect good practice on making markets work for the poor. Research is mixed-method.

    Lead researcher (land rights and governance papers), Researcher (resilience) on Gender and Drylands Development: Empowering Women for Change series (2015), UNDP and UNCCD. The UNDP Global Policy Centre on Resilient Ecosystems and Desertification and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) commissioned an extensive review of research on three key topics relating to dryland women's empowerment, namely land rights, governance and resilience. The findings were presented at the UNCCD Conference of Parties (COP) 12 in Ankara, Three thematic papers were produced, as well as accompanying policy briefs and an overall synthesis paper.

    Gender and Diversity Specialist, Yam Improvement for Income and Food Security in West Africa (YIIFSWA) Project, Nigeria and Ghana (2013-2014). Providing expertise and backstopping support for a comprehensive gender and social difference situational analysis in Nigeria and Ghana, and contributing to strategy development for yam value chains in the two countries.

    Gender and Diversity Specialist, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Cassava: Adding Value for Agriculture (C:AVA) Project (2008 - 2014), Nigeria, Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana. Delivered the gender and diversity component of the C:AVA funded by the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation. Work included the development of research methodologies, conducting gender and diversity audits of implementing partner organisations and delivery of capacity-strengthening to partners.

    Gender and Diversity Specialist, FCDO/ combined European donors and MCA / MCC, Community Land Initiative (2008-2014), Mozambique. Technical assistance in gender and community engagement, including development of a gender and diversity strategy, delivery of community engagement training, and development and management of a cascading training of trainers programme for service providers and communities.

    Evaluation Team Leader, ActionAid, Evaluation of Women's Rights to Land Project (2013), India, Sierra Leone and Guatemala. The programme aimed to support women's movements from marginalised communities, including indigenous women in Guatemala, Dalit women in India, and women living with HIV/AIDS in Sierra Leone, to improve their access and control over land. The programme ran from 2010 to 2013 was funded by the EC.

    Evaluator, IDRC and CIDA, Mid-term evaluation of the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF) (2012). One of three team members undertaking an evaluation of CIFSRF, providing funding to Canadian and Southern partners to develop projects in research for food security and nutrition in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The mid-term evaluation examines programme strategy, programme management and project progress.

    Lead Researcher, McKnight Foundation, Beliefs and taboos of bambara groundnut (2012), Malawi. Study on the beliefs and taboos of bambara groundnut and gender issues in Malawi to inform bambara value chain project interventions in Southern Africa, including the collection of data on the uses of bambara, local recipes, and developing a community engagement strategy.

    Project leader, Concern Worldwide, Farming for Impact (2011), Rwanda. Project leader and led researcher on a study on promising practices supporting resource-poor and vulnerable smallholder farmers to improve food security and reduce poverty in Rwanda. Resulting in publication and a presentation in UK parliament.

    Project leader, FCDO, Women's Participation in Higher Education for SCARDA (2010-2011). Work for Strengthening Capacity for Agricultural Research and Development in Africa (SCARDA) also included a gender and diversity mainstreaming review of project activities.
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Associate Professor in Gender, Inequalities and Food Systems
Dr M. Mofakkarul Islam
  • Qualifications: BScAg, MSAgExtEd, PhD, FHEA
  • Biography:

    Mofa has joined the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) in July 2020 after having worked as a Senior Lecturer in Global Food Security & Development at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) for over seven years (2013-2020). Prior to that Mofa held (during 2009-2013) various research positions at the Open University (UK) and Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), following the completion of his PhD from Massey University (New Zealand) in 2008. Mofa also worked for over six years (1997-2003) as an Assistant Professor at Bangladesh Agricultural University after completing his BSc in Agriculture and MS in Agricultural Extension degrees from the same institution.

    At the University of Greenwich, Mofa leads the ‘Global Sustainable Development’ MSc programme and co-leads the ‘Climate Change Research Group’. Mofa is an interdisciplinary social scientist with interest in the broad areas of food security, environment, and development. Systems thinking and approaches as well as theoretical and methodological pluralism often underpin his works. Mofa’s research has been published in renowned journals like: Global Environmental Change, World Development, Land Use Policy, Food Security, Ecological Indicators, Journal of Rural Studies, Journal of Environmental Psychology, Applied Geography, and Journal of Flood Risk Management. He has served as an editor of a special issue (September 2024) of the prestigious ‘Agricultural Systems’ journal on inclusive agrifood innovations. To date, Mofa has supervised six doctoral students to successful completion and is currently supervising several others.

    During his career Mofa has been involved as a Principal and Co-Investigator in a range of international development projects funded by the ERA-NET, FCDO, World Bank, JSPS, and industry. He has worked as a consultant (Subject Matter Expert) for the CGIAR, which is the world’s largest agricultural innovation network. Mofa continues to serve the wider academic community also through other involvements, such as conference presentations, external examiner of doctoral students, reviewer to many international journals, member of the Development Studies Association (DSA), and academic adviser to the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission.
  • Selected Publications:
    • Beaudreault, A.R., Meinke, H., & Islam, M.M. (2024). From Emerging Theories to Messy Realities: Inclusive Innovation in Agriculture and Food Systems. Agricultural Systems (corrected proof in press). Available online 10 September 2024, 104121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2024.104121
    • De Pinto, A., Islam, M.M., & Katic, P. (2023). Food security under a changing climate: exploring the integration of resilience in research and practice. In C. Bene & S. Deveraux (Eds.) Resilience and Food Security in a Food Systems Context. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23535-1_7.
    • Islam, M.M. (2022). Distributive Justice in Global Climate Finance – Recipients’ Climate Vulnerability and the Allocation of Climate Funds. Global Environmental Change, 73 (102475), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102475
    • Islam, M.M., Sarker, M.A., Al Mamun, M.A., Mamun-ur-Rashid, M., & Roy, D. (2021). Stepping Up versus Stepping Out: On the outcomes and drivers of two alternative climate change adaptation strategies of smallholders. World Development, 148(105671), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105671
    • Nadaraja, D., Lu, C., & Islam, M.M. (2021). The Sustainability Assessment of Plantation Agriculture – A Systematic Review of Sustainability Indicators. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 26, 892-910. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2020.12.042
    • Islam, M. M. & Mamun, A.A. (2020). Beyond the risks to food availability – linking climatic hazard vulnerability with the food access of delta-dwelling households. Food Security, 12 (1), 37-58.
    • Grace, I. & Islam, M.M. (2020). Youth Motivations to Study Agricultural Courses in Tertiary Institutions. Journal of Agricultural Education & Extension. DOI: 10.1080/1389224X.2020.1773285.
    • Swesi, R. M., El-Anis, I., & Islam, M. M. (2020). Food insecurity coping strategies in conflict-affected Libya. Development in Practice, 30 (3), 394-408.
    • Wells, J., Labadz, J., Smith, A., & Islam, M. M. (2019). Barriers to the uptake and implementation of natural flood management: a social-ecological analysis. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 2019, e12561, 1-12.
    • Mahon, N., Crute, I., Di Bonitto, M., Simmons, E., & Islam, M.M. (2018). Towards a broad-based and holistic framework of sustainable intensification indicators. Land Use Policy, 77, 576-597.
    • Mahon, N., Crute, I., Simmons, E., & Islam, M.M. (2017). Sustainable intensification-"oxymoron" or "third-way"? A systematic review. Ecological Indicators, 74, 73-97.
    • Mahon, N., McGuire, S., & Islam, M.M. (2016). Why bother with Bere? An investigation into the drivers behind the cultivation of a landrace barley. Journal of Rural Studies, 45, 54-65.
    • Islam, M. M., Barnes, A. & Toma, L. (2013). An Investigation into Climate Change Scepticism among Farmers. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 34, 137-150.
    • Barnes, A., Islam, M. M. & Toma, L. (2013). Heterogeneity in Climate Change Risk Perceptions Amongst Dairy Farmers: A Latent Class Clustering Analysis. Applied Geography, 41, 105-115.
    • Islam M. M., Renwick A., Lamprinopoulou C., & Klerkx, L. (2013). Innovation in livestock genetic improvement. EuroChoices, 12 (1), 42-46.
    • Renwick, A., Islam, M. M., & Thomson, S. (2012). Power in Global Agriculture: Economics, Politics, and Natural Resources. International Journal of Agricultural Management, 2(1), 31-48.
    • Islam, M. M., Renwick, A., Lamprinopouloy, C., & Klerkx, L. (2012). Dynamics of Innovation in Livestock Genetics in Scotland: An Agricultural Innovation Systems Perspective. Proceedings of the 21st International Scientific Conference in association with 131st EAAE seminar (pp. 301-318). Prague: Czech University of Life Sciences.
    • Lamprinopouloy, C., Renwick, A., Klerkx, L., Hermans, F., Islam, M. M., & Roep, D. (2012). A Systemic Policy Framework: The Cases of Scottish and Dutch Agrifood Innovation Systems – Preliminary Results. Proceedings of the 21st International Scientific Conference in association with 131st EAAE seminar (pp. 281-300). Prague: Czech University of Life Sciences.
    • Islam, M.M, Gray, D., Reid, J. & Kemp, P. (2011). Developing Sustainable Farmer-Led Extension Groups: Lessons from a Bangladeshi Case Study. Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 17 (5), 425-443.
    • Islam, M.M., Gray, D., Reid, J., Kelly, T. & Kemp, P. (2011). Beyond Recurrent Costs: An Institutional Analysis of the Unsustainability of Donor-Supported Reforms in Agricultural Extension. Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education, 18 (3), 5-18.
    • Khan, S.A.K., Islam, M.N., Kabir, M.Y., & Islam, M.M. (2003). Problem confrontation by the onion growers in the South-West coastal areas of Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Extension Education, 15(1&2), 89-93.
    • Akhter, M.S., Islam, M.N., Islam, M.M., & Hossain, M.A. (2001). Participation of the Women Beneficiaries in the Population Education and Family Planning Activities of the RDRS. Bangladesh Journal of Extension Education, 13(1&2), 63-75.
    • Kashem, M.A., & Islam, M. M. (2000). Comparative Analysis of Bangladeshi and Japanese Farmers’ Perception of the Benefits of Using Indigenous Farm Technologies. Bangladesh Journal of Extension Education, 11&12 (1&2), 23-31.
    • Kashem, M.A., & Islam, M. M. (1999). Use of Indigenous Agricultural Technologies by the Rural Men and Women Farmers in Bangladesh. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 14 (2/3), 27-43.
    • Islam, M.M., & Kashem, M.A. (1999). Farmers’ Use of Ethno-Veterinary Medicine (EVM) in the Rearing and Management of Livestock: An Empirical Study in Bangladesh. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 13 (4), 39-56.
    • Islam, M.M., Kashem, M.A., & Anwar, A.B.M.N. (1999). Attitude of Farmers towards the Use of Agrochemicals. Bangladesh Journal of Training and Development, 10 (1&2), 23-31.
    • Kashem, M.A., Anwar, A.B.M.N., Islam, M.M., & Hossain, M.A. (1999). Attitude of Farmers towards the Use of Indigenous Technical Knowledge in Agriculture. Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 26 (1), 105-109.
    • Islam, M. M., Hamid, M.A., Hoque, M. M., & Hossain, M.A. (1999, June) Farmer Field School (FFS) Paradigm: Empowering Farmers for Sustainable Agricultural Development. In A. Halim, A. Hossain, A. Kashem, M. M. Islam, M. A. M. Miah, M. A. Hamid, et al. (Eds.). Proceedings of the Symposium on Agricultural Extension Services in the 21st Century: Needs and Challenges (pp. 167-179). Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh: Bangladesh Agricultural Extension Society (BAES).
  • Research / Scholarly Interests:

    Mofa is the Co-Leader of the Climate Change Research Group at NRI. Further details can be found at: https://www.nri.org/research/centre-for-society-environment-development/climate-change/overview

    Mofa’s key research interests fall within the following cross-cutting thematic areas.

    • Food and nutrition security
    • Climate change adaptation, vulnerability, and resilience
    • Climate change, conflict and development
    • Agri-food innovations
    • Attitudes and behaviour in relation to agri-food and environmental issues
    • Sustainable agricultural intensification
    • Agricultural extension/communication

    Mofa is a member of the Livelihoods and Institutions department within NRI. He works closely with a number of research groups within the institute.
  • Teaching Programmes:
    • Programme Leader, MSc Global Sustainable Development.
    • Module Leader, AGRI1337 (Transformative Change – Concepts, Theories, and Case Studies)
    • Module Contributor, AGRI1335 (Agricultural and Natural Resources Innovation for Development)
    • Module Contributor, AGRI1048 (Independent Research Project)
  • Research Projects:
  • The key funded research projects in which Mofa has been involved include the following.
    • 2021-present: Climate smart food innovation using plant and seaweed proteins from upcycled sources (IPSUS)
      • Funded by the SUSFOOD2 ERA-Net Cofund programme, the IPSUS project aims to exploit opportunities for extracting upcycled plant and seaweed proteins from raw materials otherwise destined to join the ~1.6 billion tonnes of annual global food loss and waste (FLW). Six protein-rich sources (pumpkin, hazelnut, grape, potato, brewers' spent grain, seaweeds) have been selected for study across partner countries (UK, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Morocco). As a Co-Investigator, Dr Islam is responsible for the “Market, Consumers and Policy” Work Package of IPSUS. Further details can be found at: https://ipsus.org/en/.
    • March 2019 – 2020: Climate change adaptation strategies and wellbeing of farmers in risk-prone coastal areas of Bangladesh. Research project being implemented in collaboration with three Bangladeshi universities. Fieldwork in nine Bangladeshi coastal districts. Funded by a Nottingham Trent University (NTU) grant. Principal Investigator.
    • October 2017 – 2020: Developing a Sustainability Assessment Toolkit for Abaca (Musa textilis) Plantation Agriculture. Action research aims to develop a sustainability assessment toolkit for Abaca plantation agriculture through bottom-up and participatory processes. Fieldwork is being conducted in Indonesia. Funded jointly by NTU and a multinational company. Principal Investigator.
    • 2016-2019: Household resilience against food insecurity in areas of protracted conflicts – A Libyan study. Project funded by the Libyan Ministry of Education. Research Supervisor.
    • 2015-18: Developing indicators of sustainable intensification for UK agriculture. Funded by NTU. Research Supervisor.
    • March 2013-June 2014: Farm as Power Station. Research project aimed to gather evidence for influencing on-farm renewable energy policies in England. Collaboration involved NTU, Farmers Weekly, and Forum for the Future. Funded jointly by Ashden Trust and NTU. Researcher Adviser & Analyst.
    • September 2011-March 2013: Enhancing SRUC’s Impacts on the Rural Sector: Applying the Agricultural Innovation Systems Perspective. Policy research project aimed to identify options for promoting innovation capacity in rural Scotland. Funded by the Scottish Funding Council. Researcher.
    • July 2011-Jan 2012: Global Power in Agriculture: Resources, Economics and Politics. Policy-oriented research aimed to gather evidence as to who has the power in global agriculture in terms of economics, politics, and possession of natural resources. The research was funded by the Oxford Funding Conference (OFC). Co-Investigator & Researcher.
    • December 2008-December 2009: English-in-Action. An educational development project aimed to promote ICT-based pedagogical innovation in Bangladeshi schools. Funded by the UK-DFID. Researcher.
  • Research Students:

    Mofa has been involved with the supervision of a number of PhD students, with four successful completions to date.

    • Md. Rafiqul Islam (start October 2024): Navigating Socio-Ecological Trade-Offs in Hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha) Conservation in Bangladesh. (Lead/Main Supervisor; student has won the prestigious UBLE doctoral scholarship).
    • Jean Claude Dusabumuremyi (ongoing): Impact of Quinoa Production on Food and Nutrition Security among Smallholder Farmers in Rwanda (RCIF-PASET Lead/Main Supervisor at NRI)
    • Rejoice Papka (ongoing): Climate Change, Peace, and Prosperity nexus in the Lake Chad Basin (Co-Supervisor)
    • Fenet Belay (submitted, 2024): Smallholders’ Climate Change Adaptation Strategies and Food Security in Ethiopia (RCIF-PASET student; Lead Supervisor at NRI)
    • Dinish Nadaraja (completed, 2021): Developing a Sustainability Assessment Toolkit for Abaca (Musa textilis) Plantation Agriculture (Director of Studies or Main Supervisor at NTU)
    • Rashd Swesi (completed in July 2020): Household Resilience against Food Insecurity in Areas of Protracted Conflicts – A Libyan Study (Director of Studies)
    • Joshua Wells (completed in April 2020): Natural Flood Management: Assessing the Barriers to Wider Uptake and Implementation (Co-Supervisor)
    • Niamh Elizabeth Mahon (completed in Feb 2019): The Development of Stakeholder-sensitive Indicators of Sustainable Intensification for UK Agriculture (Director of Studies)
    • Oluseun Akinsorotan (completed in 2017): Status and Dynamics of Large Mammal Occupancy in a Nigerian National Park (Co-Supervisor)

    In addition, Mofa has supervised over 20 MSc and MRes research projects to successful completion involving students from various African and Asian countries as well as the UK.

    Mofa would welcome postgraduate students interested in research on behavioural/social dimensions of sustainable agriculture, food security, and environment.
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  • Responsibilities:
    • 2024 – present: Subject Matter Expert, Independent Science for Development Council (ISDC), CGIAR. Reviewer of one large multi-country proposal on food security and frontier food systems in developing countries.
    • 2021 – 22: Subject Matter Expert, Independent Science for Development Council (ISDC), CGIAR. Reviewer of one large proposal on sustainable intensification of mixed farming systems in multiple developing countries.
    • Research and related duties
    • Teaching and related duties
    • External engagement and consultancy
  • Awards:
    • Guest Editor (2023-2024), Agricultural Systems (Elsevier), special issue on inclusive innovation
    • Academic Adviser (2021-present), Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC), UK
    • PhD Examiner (external), Wageningen University (Netherlands) and Massey University (NZ)
    • External PhD Supervisor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana; and Centre for Dryland Agriculture, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria
    • Reviewer to many journals (e.g., Global Food Security, Nature Climate Change, Nature Sustainability, Climate Policy), and grant applications (e.g., UK ESRC and Newton Fund)
    • Member, Development Studies Association (DSA), UK
    • Life Member, Bangladesh Agricultural Extension Society (BAES)
    • Invited speaker on various topics related to agriculture, food, and environment in China (April 2018), USA (October 2017), Canada (May 2014), and UK (March 2016 and April 2022)
    • Scholar, NZAID doctoral scholarship, 2003-2007
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Associate Professor of Food Security, Environment and Development
Dr Pamela G Katic
  • Qualifications: BA Hons, MsC., PhD
  • Biography:

    Dr Pamela Katic has a first degree in Economics from the Universidad de San Andres (Argentina), a Masters in Environmental and Resource Economics and PhD in Economics from the Australian National University. Her PhD thesis was developed under the ANU-UNESCO Chair in Water Economics & Transboundary Water Governance and it entailed applications of optimal groundwater management in the Guarani Aquifer System in South America. In 2011, she joined the West Africa Office of the International Water Management Institute, a CGIAR institution, as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics. In this position and later as a Research Fellow in Economics in the same institution, she gained considerable experience assessing the constraints and opportunities of innovative agricultural investments and policies in developing countries. She joined NRI in August 2017 as a Social Scientist focusing on quantitative socio-economic methods.

    Pamela has led and participated in over twenty innovative interdisciplinary research projects and has been active in public forums such as agricultural sector working groups and teams advising the implementation of agricultural, water and food systems research for development programs. Pamela’s research has been translated into high-quality articles in some of the world’s leading water, environmental and economics journals and she has presented her work in a variety of regional and high-profile international conferences. She has also taken an active role in international networks and platforms such as the Food, Water, Energy and Environment network, Future Earth’s Water-Food-Energy Global Project, the Water Justice Hub and the FAO’s Global Hub on Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems.

    Pamela has field experience in numerous African countries  and Latin America. She is fluent in Spanish (mother tongue), English, and speaks some French and Portuguese. She has strong analytical skills in the following methods: econometrics; Bayesian models; cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis; policy analysis matrices, SAM/CGE modelling; hydro-economic modelling; dynamic optimisation; and mathematical programming.
  • Selected Publications:
    1. Katic, P., Cerretelli, S., Haggar, J., Santika, T. and Walsh, C. (2022). Mainstreaming biodiversity in business decisions: taking stock of tools and gaps. Biological Conservation (Revised and resubmitted)
    2. Jellason, N. P., Robinson, E., Katic, P., Davies, J.E., Devenish, A., Po, J., Martin, A., Adanu, S., Gebrehiwot, T., Teklewold, H., Franks, P. and Adolph, B. (2022). Winners and losers: Exploring the differential impacts of agricultural expansion in Ethiopia and Ghana. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, 4, 100176.
    3. Katic, P.G. (2021). Climate change governance in agroforestry systems: A systematic review. Journal of the British Academy, 9 (11).
    4. Millbank, C., Burlingame, B., Hunter, D., Brunel, A., Fernandez de Larrimoa, Y., Martinez, T., Katic, P.G., Aboubacrine, M., Roy, P., Rosado-, F., and Dounias, E., (2021). Rethinking hierarchies of evidence for sustainable food systems. Nature Food.
    5. FAO, (2021) (Katic P.G. contributed as a member of the Global Hub on Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems) The White/Wiphala Paper on Indigenous Peoples' food systems. Rome.
    6. Bulungu A.L.S., Palla L, Priebe J, Forsythe L, Katic, P.G., Varley G, Galinda BD, Sarah N, Nambooze  J, Wellard K, Ferguson EL (2021). Validation of a life-logging wearable camera method and the 24-h diet recall method for assessing maternal and child dietary diversity. Br J Nutr.;125(11):1299-1309. doi: 10.1017/S0007114520003530. Epub 2020 Sep 11. PMID: 32912365.
    7. De Pinto, A., Islam, M., and Katic, P.G., Food security under a changing climate: exploring the integration of resilience in research and practice, in Devereux, S., Bene, C. (Eds.) Resilience and food security in a food systems context.
    8. Qi, J., Katic, P.G., Mukherji, A., Ruhweza, A. and M. Spierenburg, (2020), Food: Rethinking Global Security, in Future Earth. Our Future on Earth 2020, PP.  74-81.
    9. Grafton, R. Q., ..., Katic, P.G., .... and Wyrwoll, P. (2019). Realizing resilience for decision making, Nature Sustainability, 2, 907-913.
    10. Katic, P.G. and Ellis, T. (2018). Risk aversion in agricultural water management investments in Northern Ghana: Experimental evidence, Agricultural Economics, 49(5), 575-586.
    11. Ayantude, A., Katic, P.G., Cofie, O. and Abban, E. (2016). Improving agriculture and food security in the Volta Basin, in Williams, T., Mul, M., Biney, C., Smakhtin, V. (Eds.) The Volta River Basin: Water for Food, Economic Growth and Environment, Abingdon: Routledge.
    12. Grafton, R. Q., McLindin, M., Hussey, K., Wyrwoll, P., Wichelns, D., Ringler, C., Garrick,  D., Pittock, J., Wheeler, S., Orr, S., Matthews, N., Ansink, E., Aureli, A., Connell, D., De Stefano, L., Dowsley, K., Farolfi, S., Hall, J., Katic, P.G., Lankford, B., Leckie, H., McCartney, M., Pohlner, H., Ratna, N., Rubarenzya, M., Raman, S., Wheeler, K. and Williams, J. (2016). Responding to Global Challenges in Food, Energy, Environment and Water: Risks and Options Assessment for Decision‐Making, Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 3(2), 275-299.
    13. Katic, P.G. and Morris, J. (2016). Targeting investments in small-scale groundwater irrigation using Bayesian networks for a data-scarce river basin in Sub-Saharan Africa, Environmental Modelling & Software, 82, 44-72.
    14. Katic, P.G. (2015). Groundwater spatial dynamics and endogenous well location. Water Resources Management, 29(1), 181-196.
    15. Katic, P.G., J. Lautze and Namara, R. (2014). Impacts of Small Built Infrastructure in inland valleys in Burkina Faso and Mali: Rationale for a systems approach that thinks beyond rice? Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 76–78, 83-97.
    16. Katic P.G. (2014). Improving West African rice production with agricultural water management strategies. in Grafton R., Wyrwoll P., White C., Allendes, D. eds. Global Water: Issues and Insights, Canberra: Australian National University Press, 27-32.
    17. Katic, P.G., Namara, R.E., Hope, L., Owusu, E. and Fujii, H. (2013). Rice and irrigation in West Africa: achieving food security with agricultural water management strategies. Water Resources and Economics, 1, 75-92.
    18. Katic, P.G. and R.Q. Grafton. (2012). Economic and spatial modelling of groundwater extraction. Hydrogeology journal, (5), 831-834.
    19. Katic, P.G. and R.Q. Grafton. (2011). Optimal groundwater extraction under uncertainty: Resilience versus economic payoffs. Journal of Hydrology, 406 (3–4), 215-224.
  • Research / Scholarly Interests:
    • Agricultural and environmental/resource economics, particularly in relation to land and water resources.
    • Poverty, livelihoods and sustainability.
    • Design and evaluation of economic policy instruments.
    • Values of nature and economics of biodiversity.
    • Impact evaluations of agricultural and water interventions..
    • Water governance and water justice.
    • Indigenous Peoples’ food systems.
    • Knowledge co-production methods; Indigenous and non-Indigenous research partnerships.
  • Teaching Programmes:
    • 2022-present   Module Leader of “Sustainable Development Research Methods” (MsC. Transformative Change for Sustainable Development, Faculty of Engineering & Science, University of Greenwich).
    • 2019-present   Module Leader of “Adaptation to Environmental Change” (MsC Global Environmental Change and MsC. Transformative Change for Sustainable Development, Faculty of Engineering & Science, University of Greenwich).
    • 2018-present   Module Leader of “Water Resources Management” (BsC Environmental Science, Faculty of Engineering & Science, University of Greenwich).
  • Research Projects:

    As Principal Investigator:

    • 2022 “Synthesis and critical assessment of management tools to mainstream biodiversity in decision-making in the private sector”. Funded by NERC. (£50,342).
    • 2019-current “Enhancing value added products and nutritional benefits from agroforestry systems”. Funded by the British Academy. (£49,500).
    • 2019-current “Intercultural models to improve nutrition and health of indigenous populations through gender-sensitive agroforestry practices in Peru”. Funded by the Newton Fund. (£ 721,964 GBP).
    • 2019-2021 “Diverseafood: Evaluating the potential of multi-trophic aquaculture to improve nutrition and ecosystem sustainability in the UK”. Funded by UKRI’s Global Food Security Programme. (£148,261 GBP).
    • 2015-2016 “Giving ‘latecomers’ a head start: Reorienting agricultural water management interventions to improve livelihoods of women and youth”. Funded by the Water, Land and Ecosystems Program (WLE-CGIAR).
    • 2014-2015 “Targeting investments in groundwater irrigation”. Funded by the Water, Land and Ecosystems Program (WLE-CGIAR).
    • 2012-2013 “Enhancing uptake and socio-economic benefits of shallow groundwater irrigation in the White Volta Basin”. Funded by the CGIAR Challenge Program in Water and Food.

    As Co-Investigator:

    • 2022-current “Indigenous biocultural landscapes for livelihoods and connectivity in Verapaces, Guatemala”, funded by the Darwin Initiative.
    • 2022-current “Transformative change for biodiversity and equity”, funded by Horizon 2020.
    • 2018-current “Social and environmental trade-offs in African agriculture” (SENTINEL), funded by GCRF.
    • 2019-2021 “Sustainability-Intensification Trade-offs in Coffee Agroforestry in Central America”, funded by GCRF.
    • 2018-2019 “Understanding how dynamic relationships among maternal agency, maternal workload and the food environment affect food choices”. Funded by Drivers of Food Choice.
    • 2016-2017 “Participatory Planning for More Inclusive and Sustainable Water Management in rural Burkina Faso (PP4MIS)”, funded by the Austrian Development Cooperation.
    • 2015-2016 “Targeting agricultural innovation in the Northern Volta Basin”, funded by the Water, Land and Ecosystems Program (WLE-CGIAR).
    • 2015-2016 “Innovation lab for small-scale irrigation (ILSSI)”, funded by USAID (Feed the Future).
    • 2013-2016 “Africa Research in sustainable intensification for the next generation Africa (Africa RISING)”, funded by USAID.
    • 2013-2014 “Analysis of the economics and impacts of intensive irrigation development projects in West Africa: Lessons for food security policies”, funded by the Howard Buffet Foundation.
  • Greenwich Academic Literature Archive (GALA) link: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/view/authors/6389.html
  • Awards:
    • 2022-current European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiative: Member of the Executive Committee
    • 2020-current Water Justice Hub (https://www.waterjusticehub.org/): Member
    • 2019-current FAO’s Global Hub on Indigenous Peoples Food Systems: Member
    • 2019-current UK Future Earth National Committee: Member
    • 2018-current Future Earth’s Water-Food-Energy Knowledge-Action Network: Vice-Chair of the Steering Committee
    • 2015-current Food, Energy, Environment and Water (FE2W) Network: Volta Basin Chair
  • External Profiles:

    ORCID

    https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7594-1081

    LinkedIn

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamela-katic-981b157/

    Google Scholar

    https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yjJd_DoAAAAJ&hl=en

    Research Gate

    https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pamela_Katic

    Academia

    https://gre.academia.edu/PKatic
Phone: +44 (0)1634 88 3884
Associate Professor in Economics
Dr Uche Okpara
  • Qualifications: BSc, MSc, PhD
  • Biography:

    Dr Uche Okpara is a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow at the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich. Before joining NRI, he taught and conducted research at both the University of Leeds and the University of Nigeria.

    Dr Uche has a diverse research interest around a central theme of climate security and its link with sustainable peace and inclusive development. His work uses theories and methods from both the natural and social sciences. Several philosophical paradigms (such as post-positivism, social constructivism, pragmatism and critical realism) offer Dr Uche’s research a firm footing. He is well-versed in using mixed methods approaches and forward-thinking transdisciplinary research techniques (such as solutions-orientated, systems-based tools) that recognise the complexity of the world's climate, conflict and peace challenges, and the synergies, trade-offs and opportunities created by change.

    Dr Uche recently completed a GCERF (Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund) funded research project which provides an authoritative analysis of past, ongoing and required responses to prevent and counter violent extremism (P/CVE) in Northwest Nigeria, identifying areas and activities with greatest potential for impact in long term P/CVE programming. He has also examined how the COVID-19 pandemic hinders efforts to address shocks from climate change and violent extremism in fragile regions.

    Currently, he is working to advance transformative pathways towards sustainable peace and equitable prosperity in transnational territories of the watershed of the Lake Chad basin – areas that crosscut communities facing interrelated risks of violent conflict and climate change. He does this by using innovative tools that are inclusive, participatory and deliberative, such as Young Citizens Panels, Consensus Conferences, Local Citizens Labs and a Conflict and Environment Observatory. Local Citizens Labs in Chad, Niger and Nigeria, for example, serve both as a hub for experiential and experimental learning and knowledge innovation, and a one-stop-shop for operationalising the Sustainable Development Goals related to peace and prosperity at a local scale.

    Dr Uche has been a module/course leader for various undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, teaching diverse groups of students in developed and developing countries. He has presented his work and travelled in Africa, Europe and the Americas. His recognition as a researcher is evidenced by a range of scholarly awards (such as the Next Generation Africa Scholar Award and the Elsevier outstanding reviewer award), and interviews granted to journalists working with different media (the BBC World Services and UK Sunday Times) on climate, conflict and fragility themes.

    In 2013, he won a Doctoral Research Fellowship Award from the US Social Science Research Council which enabled him to complete his PhD research on the nexus of climate shocks, water scarcity and violent conflict in the Boko Haram-affected Lake Chad riparian zones in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger Republic. One of the published articles from his PhD research won a Postgraduate Research Commendation Prize from the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds. In 2018, he was invited by the Government of Nigeria and UNESCO to help advance debates on new strategies for climate conflict mitigation, peacebuilding and sustainable development in the African Lake Chad region during the International Conference on Lake Chad.

    Dr Uche regularly reviews research grant proposals for a couple of funding organisations, including the UKRI and the Partnerships for Innovative Research in Africa Grant Programme Scheme. He also reviews articles for several international journals advancing environment, security and global development subjects. He speaks regularly at international conferences around the world.

    Dr Uche holds a PhD degree in Environmental Sustainability (University of Leeds) and an MSc in Natural Resources and Sustainable Environmental Management (University of Greenwich). His first degree is in Agricultural Economics (First Class Honours, University of Nigeria).
  • Selected Publications:

    Journal articles

    • Nkiaka, E., Okpara, U. T., Okumah, M. (2021). Food-energy-water security in sub-Saharan Africa: Quantitative and spatial assessments using an indicator-based approach, Journal of Environmental Development, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2021.100655.
    • Okpara, U.T., Fleskens, L., Stringer, L.C., Hessel, R., Bachmann, F., Daliakopoulos, I., Berglund, K., Velazquez, F.J., Dal Ferro, N., Keizer, J., Kohnova, S., Lemann, T., Quinn, C., Schwilch, G., Siebielec, G., Skaalsveen, K., Tibbett, M., and Zoumides, C (2020) Helping stakeholders select and apply appraisal tools to mitigate soil threats: Researchers' experiences from across Europe. Journal of Environmental Management, 257 (110005), pp. 1-10. https://doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.110005
    • Okpara, U.T., Stringer, L.C., and Akhtar-Schuster, M. (2019) Gender and land degradation neutrality: a cross-country analysis to support more equitable practices. Land Degradation and Development, 30(11), pp. 1368-1378. https://doi:10.1002/ldr.3326
    • Okpara, U.T., Stringer, L.C., Akhtar-Schuster, M., Metternicht, G.I., Dallimer. M., and Requier-Desjardins M.A (2018) social-ecological systems approach is necessary to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality. Environmental Science and Policy, 89, pp. 59-66. https://doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2018.07.003
    • Okpara, U.T., Stringer, L.C., and Dougill, A.J (2018) Integrating climate adaptation, water governance and conflict management policies in lake riparian zones: insights from African drylands. Environmental Science and Policy, 79, pp. 36-44. https://doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2017.10.002
    • Okpara, U.T., Stringer, L.C, and Dougill, A.J (2017) Using a novel climate-water conflict vulnerability index to capture double exposures in Lake Chad. Regional Environmental Change, 17(2), pp 351-366. https://doi: 10.1007/s10113-016-1003-6
    • Okpara, U.T., Stringer, L.C., and Dougill, A.J (2016) Perspectives on contextual vulnerability in discourses of climate conflict. Earth System Dynamics, 6, pp. 2543-2576. https://doi: 10.5194/esdd-6-2543-2015
    • Okpara, U.T., Stringer, L.C., and Dougill, A.J (2016) Lake drying and livelihood dynamics in Lake Chad: Unravelling the mechanisms, contexts and responses. Ambio - A Journal of the Human Environment, 45(7), pp. 781-795. Htpps://doi: 10.1007/s13280-016-0805-6
    • Okpara, U.T., Stringer, L.C., Dougill, A.J, and Mohammed, B (2015) Conflicts about water in Lake Chad: Are environmental, vulnerability and security issues linked? Progress in Development Studies, 15(4), pp. 308 – 325. https://doi: 10.1177/1464993415592738

    Science-policy briefs/reports

    • Okpara, U.T., Stringer, L.C., and Akhtar-Schuster, M. (2020) Shifting power for a gender-equitable land degradation-neutral world. [Online] New instalment of UNCCD science-policy report. Available at: <bit.ly/2ORUhg4> [Accessed 2 March 2020]
    • Chinseu, E., Leventon, J., Stringer, L., Okpara, U.T, and Fleskens, L (2018) Barriers to adoption of measures for addressing soil threats across Europe: Insights from the RECARE Project. Sustainability Research Institute [University of Leeds] Briefing Note Series 19. Available at < https://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/fileadmin/Documents/research/sri/briefingnotes/SRIBNs-19.pdf> [Accessed 5 April 2020]

    Opinion pieces/blog posts/internet publications

    PhD Thesis

    • Okpara, U.T (2016) Characterising the relationships between climate shocks, lake drying and conflict in the Lake Chad basin. [Online] Uche’s PhD thesis, available at: <http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15394/> [Accessed 12 December 2019]
  • Research / Scholarly Interests:

    Uche’s research/scholarly interests are varied, broadly cross-cutting the realms of environment, human security, peace and development, and key themes such as:

    • Climate-conflict-fragility nexus
    • Peace-prosperity dimensions and pathways
    • Conflict economies
    • Gender equality and land degradation neutrality
    • Climate adaptation, vulnerability and resilience
    • Water, land, energy and food security
    • Preventing and countering violent extremism
    • Climate security, peacebuilding and conflict prevention  

    At the core of these themes, Uche is interested in understanding:

    • How everyday lives and ordinary livelihood expectations are being significantly altered by violent conflict and ecological disasters.
    • The transnational nature and spillover effects of climate conflict, especially in transboundary river basin territories.
    • What locally led climate security governance looks like in places where climate change is exacerbating terrorism and organised crime.
    • What food security and environmental management pathways can balance competing social-ecological priorities and human welfare needs in violent environments.
    • How violent conflict undermines environmental stewardship.
    • How anticipations of future shocks and stresses feed into modes of socio-ecological systems governance to prevent a compounding cycle of fragility and emergency.
  • Teaching Programmes:

    Dr Uche supports teaching across two MSc programmes in Agriculture for Sustainable Development, and Global Environmental Change.
  • Research Projects:

    Dr Uche is leading or has been associated with several recent funded research projects:

    • Principal Investigator on a UKRI-funded project ‘In defence of lives and livelihoods: co-creating pathways towards peace and prosperity for the Lake Chad region’ (October 2021 – September 2025). This project: (i) explores the politics of knowledge around peace and prosperity using creative mixed methods; (ii) unpacks peace-prosperity dimensions, nexus and pathways using scenario-based forecasting and backcasting approaches; and (iii) advances interdisciplinary knowledge co-creation on peace-conducive economic development using local citizens labs and a conflict and environment observatory.
    • Co-Investigator on a GCERF (Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund) funded project on ‘Preventing and countering violent extremism in Nigeria – a needs assessment’ (June to August 2021). This project provides an authoritative analysis of existing/ongoing and required responses (including regional/national/local strategies/policies) to prevent and counter violent extremism (P/CVE) in Nigeria, identifying areas and activities with greatest potential for impact in long term P/CVE programming.
    • EU FP7 RECARE Project: Preventing and remediating degradation of soils in Europe through land care. As a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Leeds (in 2017/2018), Uche worked (on this project) with a multidisciplinary team of researchers from 18 organisations across Europe to assess the barriers to adoption of measures for addressing soil threats. The work stream he led delivered comprehensive guidelines for identifying and choosing tools for appraising soil remediation and restoration measures from across Europe (outputs from this work are useful to researchers and practitioners embarking on soil improvement trials and programmes where priorities are driven by practical end-user needs).
    • British Council /Newton Institutional Links project in the MENA countries: Developing a sustainable, multi-trophic off grid unit of integrated fish and crop production for smallholder farmers in arid and non-fertile regions. Uche led the economic and social aspects of this project (at the University of Leeds, 2017/2018), delivering an integrated framework for agricultural innovation uptake in drylands; and advancing understanding of the ways in which innovations in agriculture can become part of the efforts to support sustainable livelihoods in drylands facing climate extremes.
    • Gender equality and Land Degradation Neutrality [research links between the University of Leeds and UNCCD]: In this project, Uche led assessments of (i) how a socioecological systems approach to land degradation neutrality (LDN) can help identify trade-offs, appreciate dynamics, improve monitoring and inclusivity and create a new culture for achieving LDN; and (ii) the changing dynamics of gender in land management. Through a cross-country analysis of the various ways in which women and men can interact with and care for land resources in more equal and non-hierarchical ways, the project advanced the ground work required for interdisciplinary research on gender equality and land restoration/rehabilitation practices in regions with deeply entrenched patriarchal sociocultural norms.
    • Climate Change, Lake Drying and Violent Conflict (funded under the US Social Science Research Council Fellowship Scheme): Focusing on the Lake Chad region in Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria, this project examined how increased warming, longer dry seasons, water and food scarcities, and socio-political exclusion amplify violence and insurgency. Uche’s contributions here include offering: (i) the first  transboundary, locally-comprehensive and theoretically consistent analysis of the ways in which climate change, state fragility and conflict are contextually-bound and interrelated; (ii) a novel diagnostic tool for exploring how different portrayals of vulnerability influence the discursive formation of climate conflict; and (iii) a ground work for interdisciplinary research on cross-thematic integrative modes of policy planning across vital climate adaptation, conflict management and water governance issues in fragile, food insecure settings.

    Dr Uche Okpara welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in working on topics that crosscut climate conflict/security, climate resilience/vulnerability, natural resources management, peacebuilding and sustainable development.
  • Research Students:

    Dr Uche is currently supervising two PhD students:

    • Betty Flora Nakiru, “Exploring Linkages between Climate Change, Conflict and Food Security in Karamoja, Uganda” – https://www.nri.org/people/nakiru-flora-betty - Funded through NRI’s Food and Nutrition Initiative (FaNSI) Scholarship.
    • Abubakar Ibrahim, “Comparative Vulnerability Assessment for Strengthening Adaptive Capacity and Food Security of Rural Communities in Kebbi State, Northern Nigeria” - https://www.nri.org/people/ibrahim-abubakar - Funded through NRI’s Food and Nutrition Initiative (FaNSI) Scholarship
  • Greenwich Academic Literature Archive (GALA) link: https://gala.gre.ac.uk/view/authors/7944.html
  • Responsibilities:
  • Awards:
  • External Profiles:

    ORCID

    https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0851-0024

    Google Scholar

    https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=J8wC9iYAAAAJ&hl=en

    Research Gate

    https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Uche_Okpara

     
Phone: +44 (0)1634 88 3693
Senior Lecturer in Climate Change, State Fragility and Conflict, and UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow
Dr Olusegun Fadare
  • Qualifications: B.Agric, MSc, PhD
  • Biography:

    Dr. Olusegun (Segun) Fadare is a Lecturer in Development Economics in the Livelihoods and Institutions Department at  NRI. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, and an MSc and a PhD in Agricultural and Food Economics from the University of Reading. He conducts interdisciplinary research, primarily focusing on conflict and fragility, food and nutrition security, agriculture and rural livelihoods, relational and interpersonal violence, and governance and institutions.

    Following his doctoral research on the impact of conflicts on agricultural livelihoods outcomes and resilience, he joined NRI as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in October 2023, contributing to the ESRC-funded research project titled “Causal Pathways from Violent Conflict to Violence Against Children: Evidence from Multi-Country Secondary Data,” led by Professor Tilman Brück. On the project, he is actively involved in investigating the causal pathways linking political violence to violence against children in Africa, using multi-country household surveys data from the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys (VACS) and global georeferenced conflict data from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED).

    Prior to joining NRI, Segun was an Associate Lecturer in the Agri-Food Economics and Marketing Department, University of Reading, where he also held a Research Assistant role on several UKRI-funded projects, contributing to research on agriculture-nutrition in India and Nepal, and computational text analysis of soybean supply chain policies in Brazil under the Trade Hub Initiative. He was also previously a Research Analyst at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Nigeria for six years, where he led major research projects, coordinated fieldwork, supervised IFPRI-Nigeria interns and local collaborators, and was involved in knowledge dissemination and capacity building.

    He has also previously served as a co-investigator in collaborative research under the Agricultural and Food Policy Analysis for Nutrition Outcomes in Africa (AFPON) Project, supported by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2018.

    Through teaching and research, he aims to advance knowledge and policy measures that improve economic conditions and well-being for people in vulnerable locations.
  • Selected Publications:

    Journal articles

    • Akerele, D., Fadare, O., Ogunniyi, A., Adeyemi, O., and Rufai, M. (2024). Effects of Food Price Changes on Child Undernutrition among Agricultural Households in Nigeria. World Development Sustainability, 100158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100158
    • Fadare, O., Srinivasan, C., and Zanello, G. (2024). Livestock diversification mitigates the impact of farmer-herder conflicts on animal-source foods consumption in Nigeria. Food Policy, 122, 102586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102586
    • Begho, T., and Fadare, O. (2023). Does household food waste prevention and reduction depend on bundled motivation and food management practices?. Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, 11, 100142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clrc.2023.100142.
    • Cassimon, D., Fadare, O., and Mavrotas, G. (2023) The impact of food aid and governance on food and nutrition security in sub-Saharan Africa. Sustainability, 15 (2), pp. 1417. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15021417
    • Fadare, O., Zanello, G., and Srinivasan, C. (2023) Stressor or succour? Examining the association between conflict, livestock assets, and farmers’ mental health in Nigeria. Economics & Human Biology, 49, pp. 101234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101234 
    • Fadare, O., Zanello, G., and Srinivasan, C. (2022) The joint effects of terrorism and land access on livestock production decisions: Evidence from northern Nigeria. World Development Perspectives, 27, pp. 100447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2022.100447
    • Begho, T., Odeniyi, K., and Fadare, O. (2022) Toward acceptance of future foods: the role of trust and perception in consumption intentions of plant-based meat alternatives. British Food Journal. 125 (7), pp. 2392-2406. https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-07-2022-0583
    • Cassimon, D., Fadare, O., and Mavrotas, G. (2022) The combined effect of institutional quality and capital flows on food and nutrition security and undernourishment in sub-Saharan Africa. PLoS ONE 17 (10), pp. e0275345. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275345
    • Cassimon, D., Fadare, O., and Mavrotas, G. (2021) Development finance, governance quality and their impact on food and nutrition security in sub-Saharan Africa. Review of Development Finance, 11 (2), pp. 1-17. https://hdl.handle.net/10067/1859590151162165141
    • Ogunniyi, A.I., Mavrotas, G., Olagunju, K.O., Fadare, O., and Adedoyin, R. (2020). Governance quality, remittances and their implications for food and nutrition security in Sub-Saharan Africa. World Development, 127, pp. 104752. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.10475
    • Fadare, O., Amare, M., Mavrotas, G., Akerele, D., and Ogunniyi, A. (2019) Mother’s nutrition-related knowledge and child nutrition outcomes: Empirical evidence from Nigeria. PLoS ONE, 14 (2), pp. e0212775. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212775
    • Fadare, O., Mavrotas, G., Akerele, D., and Oyeyemi, M. (2019) Micronutrient-rich food consumption, intra-household food allocation and child stunting in rural Nigeria. Public Health Nutrition, 22 (3), pp. 444-454. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980018003075
    • Amare, M., Benson, T., Fadare, O., and Oyeyemi, M. (2018) Study of the determinants of chronic malnutrition in northern Nigeria: Evidence from the Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys. Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 39 (2), pp. 296-314.  https://doi.org/10.1177/0379572118768568
    • Akerele, D., Sanusi, R.A., Fadare, O., and Ashaolu, O.F. (2017) Factors influencing nutritional adequacy among rural households in Nigeria: how does dietary diversity stand among influencers? Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 56 (2), pp. 187-203. https://doi.org/10.1080/03670244.2017.1281127

    Book Chapter

    • Adebayo, O., Mistura, R., Mavrotas, G., Olagunju, K., Kabir, S.K., and Fadare, O. (2020) Delving Deeper into Child Poverty and its Drivers in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Multidimensional Approach for Nigeria. In: Lawson, D., Angemi, D., and Kasirye, I. (eds.) What Works for Africa’s Poorest Children: From Measurement to Action. Rugby, UK: Practical Action Publishing, pp. 95-115. http://dx.doi.org/10.3362/9781780448572.

    Working papers
  • Research / Scholarly Interests:

    Dr. Fadare’s research interests and expertise lie at the intersection of agricultural and development economics, particularly as they relate to the welfare of women and children in areas vulnerable to conflict and climate change. He works extensively with both macro and micro data, including administrative and geospatial data, to investigate complex development issues.

    His research is situated within the Climate Change, Gender & Social Differences research groups, where he is involved in various research initiatives. Segun’s recent research provides empirical evidence from longitudinal studies on adapting livestock-based livelihoods to enhance food security, nutrition, and mental health in conflict-affected communities. Currently, as part of a UKRI-funded project at NRI, he is investigating the causal pathways linking political violence to violence against children using multi-country secondary data. This project underscores the potential for long-term impact by informing policies that address the ripple effects of conflict on children and young people.

    His future work will further explore the following key research themes:

    • Food and nutrition security
    • Agriculture and rural livelihoods
    • Relational and interpersonal violence
    • Governance and institutions
    • Conflict and fragility
    • Impact analysis
  • Research Projects:

    2023-2025. Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) - Secondary Data Initiative. Project Title: Causal pathways from violent conflict to violence against children: Evidence from multi-country secondary data.

    This research examines the mechanisms linking political violence to violence against children (VAC) using high-quality data from ten countries across sub-Saharan Africa. It will develop conceptual models, identify risk factors, and simulate policy interventions to inform effective prevention strategies. The project will also engage in research dissemination and knowledge exchange activities, involving key stakeholders such as UNICEF, CDC, SVRI, Together for Girls, and Amnesty International to maximize policy impact.

     

    2018-2020. Collaborative research of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) for the Agricultural and Food Policy Analysis for Nutrition Outcomes in Africa (AFPON) Project, supported by the Bill & Milinda Gates Foundation. Project Title: Effects of food price shocks on child undernutrition among agricultural households in Nigeria.

    This project produced a working paper for the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) and a journal article in World Development Sustainability.
  • External Profiles:

    LinkedIn

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/olusegun-fadare-phd-a2336259/?originalSubdomain=uk

    ORCID

    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0647-7438

    Google Scholar

    https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=T3g62yIAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

    Research Gate

    https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Olusegun-Fadare
Lecturer in Development Economics
Professor John F Morton
  • Qualifications: BA (Hons), PhD
  • Biography:

    Professor John Morton has a first degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD from the University of Hull for a thesis on the social organisation of the Northern Beja, a group of semi-nomadic pastoralists in north-eastern Sudan. After working for Oxfam in north-eastern Sudan during the famine of 1985-86, he worked as a consultant for a variety of NGOs, UN agencies, etc., including three years as a freelance consultant based in Pakistan. He joined NRI in 1993. He has been Professor of Development Anthropology since 2004 and Co-Lead of the Centre for Society, Environment and Development since 2022. He was Associate Research Director (Social Sciences) 2001-10 and Head of the Livelihoods and Institutions Department 2010-18.

    John has led significant projects within two key research fields. One of these is the social, institutional and policy aspects of livestock development, particularly among pastoralist peoples. Since 2017 John has acted as the social sector specialist in three interdisciplinary studies of value chains for livestock products: beef in Eswatini, milk in Burundi, and cashmere in Mongolia. Earlier in his career he made important contributions to the study of drought management among pastoralists in Northern Kenya.

    John also researches the impacts of climate change on smallholders, pastoralists and other categories of the rural poor, and their prospects for adaptation. He designed and led a research project on Climate Learning for African Agriculture (2011-13), investigating the actual and potential policies and practices of agricultural research and extension services in the face of climate change. He also worked as leader of the Quality Support Component of DFID’s CIRCLE (Climate Impacts Research Capacity and Leadership Enhancement) Programme between 2015 and 2019.

    John has published in a variety of high impact journals, including World Development, Global Environmental Change, Climate and Development, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, Disasters, and the European Journal of Development Research.

    John has also carried out high-level consultancies for FCDO, The European Commission, the World Bank, UNDP and several NGOs within his specialist research areas. He has field experience in numerous African countries (especially in the Horn of Africa), South Asia and Mongolia. He is fluent in French, and speaks some Arabic.

    John served as a Lead Author on smallholder and subsistence agriculture within the chapter on Food, Forests and Fibre of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and as such he was recognised as contributing to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC. He has subsequently served as Coordinating Lead Author on Rural Areas for the Fifth Assessment Report of 2014 and as Lead Author on Risk Management and Decision Making in Relation to Sustainable Development for the Special Report on Climate Change and Land.
  • Selected Publications:
  • Research / Scholarly Interests:

    John has two overlapping sets of research interests:

    • The social, institutional and political context for livestock development, and for the development of pastoralist communities. He has worked on appropriate methodologies for livestock research among small-scale communities, on factors influencing uptake of tsetse control activities and ways to disseminate those technologies. He has led innovative research projects on the relations of pastoralist communities with elected parliamentarians in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, and on the engagement of the Ethiopian private sector (particularly meat and livestock exporters) in pastoral development. His work on livestock product value chains has highlighted the importance of the multifunctionality of livestock systems for small-scale farmers and pastoralists in the Global South, and of the importance of the political-economic context, including land tenure, for livestock production.
    • Impacts of climate change and prospects for adaptation: Through work on droughts and other forms of climate variability in pastoral areas John developed an interest in the impacts of climate change on pastoralists, smallholders and other categories of the rural poor, and their prospects for adaptation. This has been expressed through his work for the IPCC, through his leadership of the project Climate Learning for African Agriculture, and his engagement with African climate change researchers at doctoral and post-doctoral level.

    John is currently developing research interests in the anthropology of scientific knowledge, particularly as it relates to questions of livestock and climate change (e.g. the use of science on livestock emissions in climate advocacy, and the development of alternative protein foods). He is also interested in concepts and perceptions of risk.
  • Teaching Programmes:
    • Course Tutor for module on Adaptation to Environmental Change, MSc in Global Environmental Change, NRI.
    • Guest Lecturer for module on Transformative Change – Concepts, Theories, and Case Studies, and module on Climate Change, Food Security and Sustainable Development, both for MSc in Global Sustainable Development, NRI.
    • Occasional lecturer on Qualitative Research, Case-Studies and Ethnography for PhD students.
  • Research Projects:

    Value Chain Analysis for Development (VCA4D): Within this EU-funded programme, implemented by Agrinatura, I have served (2017 - ) as social sector specialist in three interdisciplinary studies of value chains for livestock products: beef in Eswatini, milk in Burundi and cashmere in Mongolia (for which I was also Team Leader). In each case I was responsible for reporting on the social sustainability of the value chain, including working conditions, access to land, gender equality, food security, social capital and living conditions, using a mixture of rural fieldwork, interviews with stakeholders, and review of existing documents and data (in Burundi also inputs to design and analysis of a major structured survey), while collaborating with economic and environmental specialists. Each study has contributed to programme planning for EU Delegations. My involvement with VCA4D has also resulted in two journal papers under review, comparing themes of land tenure and livestock across published VCA4D studies.

    Livestock State of Play (2021): I researched and wrote this major public-facing document, including an original horizon-scanning of the major issues in livestock development across the Global South, an analysis of major trends in EU cooperation in the livestock, and selected project case-studies. The document was approved as a publication of the EU and is available at https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/5dbb472e-d42b-11ed-a05c-01aa75ed71a1/language-en

    Support to the Moroccan National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA) on Climate Change (2020)

    This FCDO-funded project aimed to identity capacity-building needs and form a basis for further support to INRA in the field of climate change. With Professor Hans Dobson of NRI, I visited Morocco, holding meetings with INRA staff at HQ and running workshops for research staff at four regional centres, making recommendations for longer term training and capacity-building. Following Covid-related lockdowns in both UK and Morocco, I led the design and delivery of an agreed programme of support to be delivered remotely, comprising training activities (virtual lectures and one-to-one support) in three areas: a) socio-economic aspects of climate change, particularly as they relate to smallholders, and the roles of agricultural research in climate adaptation; b) agri-climate modelling; and c) bioinformatics, a key skill gap for INRA for its work on the genomics of climate-resilient crops and climate-related plant diseases. I personally delivered the first of these. One-to-one mentoring of Moroccan researchers also produced three journal articles co-authored by NRI staff.

    CIRCLE (Climate Impacts Research Capacity and Leadership Enhancement) Programme (2015-2019): I worked as leader of the Quality Support Component of this DFID-funded programme, led by the Association of Commonwealth Universities, between 2015 and 2019. CIRCLE supported 100 African early-career researchers in climate-related fields to spend a year in another African institution. The Quality Support Component, which was awarded through competitive bidding, identified and contracted an international specialist adviser to work with each Fellow. These were drawn from NRI staff, from our partners UCL and LSHTM, but also from other UK institutions, Norway, Sweden, Turkey and India. I also facilitated workshops for Fellows, their supervisors and senior management of the participating African universities, and acted myself as advisor to ten Fellows, leading in several cases to highly-cited publications.
  • Research Students:

    for University of Greenwich)

    • Menyene Nelson
    • Betty Nakiru
    • Mohammed Aman Ogeto
    • Abubakar Ibrahim
    • Molly Foster
    • Catherine Onyenso

    (for Royal Veterinary College)

    • Amber Lawes-Johnson

    (for Bayero University Kano)

    • Ursula Tumamo Djuidja
  • Greenwich Academic Literature Archive (GALA) link: https://gala.gre.ac.uk/view/authors/105.html
  • Responsibilities:
    • Co-Lead, Centre for Society, Environment and Development
    • Co-Leader, Climate Change Research Group
    • University of Greenwich Institutional Lead and Board Member, UBEL (UCL, Bloomsbury and East London) Doctoral Training Partnership
    • NRI Institutional Lead, FCDO Expert Advisory Call Down Services: Climate Change, Nature, and Global Health
    • Member, Faculty of Engineering and Science Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee.
  • Awards:
    • Recognised as contributing to the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC, 2007.
    • Member of the Peer Review College of the UK Economic and Social Research Council.
    • Member of the Scientific Advisory Panel for the Commonwealth Scholarships Commission for the UK (2009-15).
    • Invited to give the Ralph Melville Memorial Lecture for the Tropical Agricultural Association, 2022.
    • Council Member of the Development Studies Association (2003-09).
    • Trustee of the Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa (1999-2018) and Chair of Trustees (2007-09)
    • Consultant Scientific Editor for Tropical Animal Health and Production (2010-2022).
  • External Profiles:

    ORCID

    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8013-5794

    Google Scholar

    https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=g8tgE9oAAAAJ&hl=en
Phone: +44 (0)1634 88 3064
Professor of Development Anthropology

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