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.

For the past ten years, Colin’s work has involved the application of new institutional economics to a range of issues related to agricultural markets and pro-poor economic growth in rural Africa. Specific interests include the organisation and performance of African cotton systems, the challenge of providing seasonal finance to agricultural households, the development of input markets in Africa, and the requirements for, and livelihood impacts of, sustainable intensification of smallholder agriculture.
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