{jathumbnail off} Liz Adams has recently received her MSc in Science and Technology for Sustainability from the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex in which she focussed on Biosafety Policy in Kenya. She has a first degree in Biotechnology from the University of Nottingham. She has previous experience in Sustainable Agriculture in Arid Regions of Namibia, and the political economy of seed systems in Africa.

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{jathumbnail off}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 Network and Research and Extension Network.

{jathumbnail off}Gem Argwings-Kodhek is a Senior Research Fellow at Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development, Egerton University.

 {jathumbnail off} Oliver Burch is the Team Administrative Coordinator for the KNOTS team at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and Administrative Coordinator for the Future Agricultures Consortium.

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 Reviews) and aid management (SWAPs), with strong focus on south-eastern Africa and agriculture and rural development.

{jathumbnail 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 of Mainz. His research interests include agricultural production and HIV/ADS, and rural development.

{jathumbnail off}Ephraim Chirwa is an Associate Professor of Economics at Chancellor College, University of Malawi. He holds an MPhil from Cambridge University and PhD in Privatization and Efficiency in Malawi from the University of East Anglia.

{jathumbnail off} 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 at International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) on land rights, contributing to the investment work (especially on investment law and contracts). He is also conducting research on large-scale land acquisitions for agricultural investment in Africa (agrifood, biofuels).

{jathumbnail off} 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.

{jathumbnail off}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 the interactions of agricultural and other activities in rural economies.

{jathumbnail off} 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.

{jathumbnail off} 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).

{jathumbnail off}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 Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) in 2002 to work on an evaluation of land and agrarian reform in South Africa.

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 IDS.

{jathumbnail off}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.

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 in northern Kenya. He is currently Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex and a Research Associate of the Centre for Civil Society at the London School of Economics. {jathumbnail off}

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 of natural experiments. In each case, the work has suggested opportunities for multiple benefits from more equitable and durable environmental management.

{jathumbnail off} 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).

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 Africa.

{jathumbnail off}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.

 

 

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Lars Otto Naess is a Research Fellow on the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction Team, at the Institute of Development Studies. He has conducted research on various aspects of climate change for over ten years. His previous affiliations include Center for International Climate and Environmental Research-Oslo (CICERO), Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and FAO. Current research interests include social and institutional dimensions of adaptation to climate change at local and national levels, as well as climate change considerations in international development. {jathumbnail off}

{jathumbnail off}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.

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 to the governance and use of resources in drylands.

{jathumbnail off}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.

{jathumbnail off}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.

{jathumbnail off}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.

{jathumbnail off}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 Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex and a Director of the Centre for Social Protection since 2006.

{jathumbnail off}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 and focuses on the relationships between science and technology, local knowledge and livelihoods and the politics of policy processes in the context of international agricultural, environment and development issues.

{jathumbnail off}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.

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 systems.

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 at the Institute of Development Studies. His research interests include climate risk management, child-centred development, social protection, knowledge management, organisational change, and linking science with policy processes.{jathumbnail off}

{jathumbnail off}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.

{jathumbnail off}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.

{jathumbnail off}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.