Researchers
FAC’s network of researchers come from a range of research and policy institutions across Africa.
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Abdi Hussein
May 18, 2010 / Researchers Abdi Hussein is a development practitioner with over 25 years experience managing projects in pastoralist areas of Ethiopia and Somalia for international NGOs, UN agencies and national pastoralist groups. This year he will complete his MA in Development Studies at
Hussein Mahmoud
May 18, 2010 / Researchers Hussein Mahmoud is Lecturer in the Department of Geography at Egerton University in Nakuru, Kenya. His research interests include livestock marketing in pastoralist areas, pastoralist livelihoods, natural resource management in drylands, and the dynamics of conflicts in the Horn of
Abdirizak Nunow
May 18, 2010 / Researchers Abdirizak Nunow is a Lecturer in the School of Environmental Studies at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya, where he teaches a range of graduate and undergraduate courses on environmental science, human ecology, and arid lands. His main research interests relate
Judith Good
March 10, 2010 / Researchers Judith Good is a Senior Lecturer in Informatics at the Universitt of Sussex, Brighton, UK. She is also Director of the IDEAs Lab, which is part of the Human Centred Technology Group (along with the Interact Lab).
Lorenzo Cotula
March 10, 2010 / Researchers Lorenzo Cotula has extensive experience in legal and social science research, capacity building and policy advocacy on the role of law in sustainable development, focusing on land rights and on natural resource investment (agriculture, extractive industries). He is currently working
Ruth Hall
March 10, 2010 / Researchers Ruth Hall holds a Masters degree in Development Studies from the University of Oxford and an Honours degree in Political Studies from UCT. She is currently registered for a doctoral degree in Politics at Oxford. She joined the Institute for
Thomas Tanner
March 10, 2010 / Researchers Tomas Tanner is a social scientist specialising in the policy and practice of adaptation to climate change, particularly in linking approaches to development, disasters and climate change. He is currently a Research Fellow on the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction Team
Jeremy Lind
March 10, 2010 / Researchers Jeremy Lind is a development geographer with over 10 years research and advisory experience on livelihoods in conflict areas and the difficulties of aid delivery in such contexts, including one year researching the impacts of armed violence on pastoralist livelihoods
Dawit Alemu
February 26, 2010 / Researchers Dawi Alemu is Coordinator of Agricultural Economics, Research Extension and Farmers linkage at the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR). He has been associated with EIAR since 1999 as a Senior Researcher and Coordinator. His research focuses on agricultural marketing
Mirriam Muhome-Matita
February 26, 2010 / Researchers Mirriam Muhome-Matita specialises in Agriculture and Environmental Economics. She holds a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Malawi. She has a keen research interest in poverty dynamics, food security, agriculture systems' performance and growth.
John Thompson
February 26, 2010 / Researchers John Thompson has worked on power, policy and sustainability issues in food and agriculture, water resource management and rural development for nearly 25 years, in both developing and industrialised countries.
Ian Scoones
February 26, 2010 / Researchers Ian Scoones is co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre at the University of Sussex and joint convenor of the IDS-hosted Future Agricultures Consortium. He is an agricultural ecologist by original training whose interdisciplinary research links the natural and social sciences
Kojo Amanor
February 26, 2010 / Researchers Kojo Amanor is an Associate Professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. He joined the Institute in 1993. From 1988 to 1990 he was Research Associate at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London – Pastoral Development
Rachel Sabates-Wheeler
February 26, 2010 / Researchers Rachel Sabates-Wheeler is a Development Economist with extensive experience in rural development, institutional analysis and social protection, including 2.5 years leading research on Land Policy in Albania. Since 2001, she has been a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development
Stephen Devereux
February 26, 2010 / Researchers Stephen Devereux is a development economist with 20 years experience working predominantly on food security, rural livelihoods, social protection and poverty reduction issues. His research experience has mainly been in Africa, especially Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi and Namibia.
Eva Ludi
February 26, 2010 / Researchers Eva Ludi is a geographer with a diverse portfolio. Currently she is a member of the Protected Livelihoods and Agricultural Growth (PLAG) Programme and the Water Policy Programme (WPP) at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI).
Jennifer Leavy
February 26, 2010 / Researchers Jennifer Leavy is an Agricultural Economist working as a Research Officer at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex. She has research and consultancy experience in sub-Saharan Africa, South and South-East Asia.
Sally Smith
February 26, 2010 / Researchers Sally Smith is a Research Officer at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex working on international trade, corporate social responsibility, poverty and rural development.
Steve Wiggins
February 26, 2010 / Researchers Steve Wiggins is a Research Fellow and Programme Leader at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). He has been studying and working on agricultural and rural development in Africa and Latin America since 1972.
Colin Poulton
February 26, 2010 / Researchers Colin Poulton is a Research Fellow at at the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy (CeDEP) at SOAS as well as a members of the SOAS Food Studies Centre. Colin has worked in Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
Samuel Gebreselassie
February 26, 2010 / Researchers Samuel Gebreselassie is a Researcher in Agricultural and Rural Development and Environmental Economics at the Ethiopian Economic Policy Research Institute (EEPRI). He holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Bonn.
Amdissa Teshome
February 26, 2010 / Researchers Amdissa Teshome currently runs the consultancy firm, A-Z Consult in Addis Ababa. He holds a MSc in Agricultural Economics from Wye College, a PhD from University of London as well as being a graduate in Economics from Addis Ababa University.
Hannington Odame
February 26, 2010 / Researchers Hannington Odame is a founding member and its interim Executive Director of the Centre for African Bio-Entrepreneurship (CABE). He has a keen interest in agricultural innovation systems as well as biotechnology, food security and smallholder innovations.
Lydia Ndirangu
February 26, 2010 / Researchers Lydia Ndirangu is a Policy Analyst in the Productive Sector Division at the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), were she focuses on agriculture and rural development policies with a special focus on food security.
Andrew Dorward
February 26, 2010 / Researchers Andrew Dorward is the Economic Director at the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy (CeDEP) at SOAS as well as a members of the SOAS Food Studies Centre where he focuses on problems associated with risk, market access, institutions, and
Jim Sumberg
February 26, 2010 / Researchers Jim Sumberg is an agriculturalist by training and has over 25 years experience working on small-scale farming systems and agricultural research policy in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. A key research interest has been the dynamics of change within agricultural
Michael Loevinsohn
February 26, 2010 / Researchers Michael Loevinsohn is an ecologist and epidemiologist. He has worked for many years at the interface between environment, rural society and health, seeking to throw light on the dynamics of systems undergoing rapid change. Often this has involved making use
Lidia Cabral
February 26, 2010 / Researchers Lidia Carbral is an economist and social scientist. She currently works as a Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Lidia has experience in public policy formulation and implementation (PRSP, MTEF & State Budgets), budget system analysis (Public Expenditure
Blessings Chinsinga
January 25, 2010 / Researchers {jcomments off} Blessings Chinsinga is a Senior Lecturer teaching Development Administration, Public Policy Analysis and Institutions and Development at the Department of Political and Administrative Studies,Chancellor College, University of Malawi. He holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University
Gem Argwings-Kodhek
January 25, 2010 / Researchers Gem Argwings-Kodhek is a Senior Research Fellow at Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development, Egerton University.
John Omiti
January 25, 2010 / Researchers John Omiti is a Senior Policy Analyst and Head of Productive Sector Division at the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA). He holds a PhD in agricultural economics from the University of New England.