Notes on Contributors

Nana Akua Anyidoho is a Senior Research Fellow Asrat Ayalew Gella holds a postgraduate diploma at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic in International Development from the University Research (ISSER) at the University of and of Bath, UK, and is currently a graduate student is co-convener of the Young People and Agri-Food at the University of Bergen studying towards an theme of the Future Agricultures Consortium. MPhil degree in Gender and Development. He Nana Akua has a PhD in Human Development has also been working with Getnet Tadele as an and Social Policy from Northwestern University. assistant researcher and co-investigator on a She is interested in the intersection of policy number of research projects focusing on processes with the everyday lives of people. Her livelihoods, HIV/AIDS and young people. recent research focuses on the pathways of economic empowerment for young people; the Michael Chasukwa is a lecturer at the University career aspirations of university students; and the of based at Chancellor College in the informalisation of women’s work. Department of Political and Administrative Studies. He holds an MA in Political Science and a Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere is the Director of the BA in Public Administration from the University Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office of of Malawi. His research interests include the International Food Policy Research Institute governance, local government, decentralisation, (IFPRI). He holds a BSc (Honours) degree from the politics of development, public policy, and the , an MSc from the political economy. Currently, Michael is involved University of Guelph, Canada, and a PhD from in a research study hosted by the Institute for the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. He Poverty, Land, and Agrarian Studies and the was a Professor and Director of the Institute of Future Agricultures Consortium under the theme Statistical, Social and Economic Research ‘Transnational Commercial Land Deals in Africa’. (ISSER), University of Ghana, and later became Vice Chancellor of the University. His other work Blessings Chinsinga is based at the Department of experiences include a stint with the World Bank, Political and Administrative Studies, Chancellor the Ghana Ministry of Food and Agriculture, and College, as an Associate the Ghana Cocoa Board. Professor. He specialises in public policy, the political economy of development processes, Joseph Ayodele Ariyo is an educator who began institutional analysis, rural livelihoods and local his career in 1970 as an education officer in the level politics. He is a member of the Future former Northeastern State of . He joined Agricultures Consortium (FAC) coordinated by (ABU) in 1974 and IDS, University of Sussex. Within the FAC, completed his postgraduate studies in Canada at Blessings focuses primarily on the politics of policy York University, Toronto and the University of processes in the agricultural sector. Waterloo. Joseph has remained with ABU ever since, except for leave of absence as Provost and Jennifer Leavy is an economist whose research CEO of Kwara Sate College of Education at Oro focuses on the intersection of economic, social and as a consultant to the National Planning and cultural life in the context of rural Commission to develop Nigeria’s Vision 2020. livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa, drawing on His teaching and research interests are rural anthropological and sociological approaches. She development, land use planning and resource has 20 years’ experience in research, consultancy management. and advisory work in environment, agriculture

IDS Bulletin Volume 43 Number 6 November 2012 iii and development. Her research encompasses: small-scale farming systems and agricultural work and labour; youth aspirations; social research policy in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin networks; poverty, inequality and vulnerability; America. He joined IDS as a Research Fellow in markets and institutions. Her recent work October 2009 and co-convenes the Future examines the impact of food price volatility on Agricultures Consortium’s ‘Young People and youth aspirations in relation to farming. Jennifer Agri-Food’ theme. Previously he was Programme is a Research Officer in the Vulnerability and Director at the New Economics Foundation and Poverty Reduction Team at IDS. She co-convenes Senior Lecturer in Natural Resource Management the FAC ‘Young People and Agri-Food’ theme. in the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia. He has also held research positions Luis Tomás Montilla Fernández is a doctoral at WADRA – the Africa Rice Centre, the researcher at the Graduate School in Law and International Livestock Centre for Africa, CARE Economics at the University of Hamburg, International and the Gambian Livestock Germany. He is a licensed Venezuelan lawyer from Department. the Fermin Toro’s University (Barquisimeto), having a master’s degree in International Law Getnet Tadele received BA, MSc and PhD from the University of Freiburg in Breisgau, degrees from Addis Ababa, Newcastle (Australia) Germany. He is currently working on papers and Amsterdam Universities respectively. He is related to the social impacts of large-scale an Associate Professor at the Department of investments in sub-Saharan Africa, the effects of Sociology, , . He foreign agricultural investment in Africa on local has been researching and publishing extensively farmers, philosophical aspects of investment law, on children, adolescent and youth health issues the promotion of human rights in arbitration such as family violence against children, PMTCT cases, and international mechanisms to tackle and sexuality and HIV/AIDS. Getnet is currently opportunistic behaviour in agricultural trade. teaching at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand as an Erskine fellow and previously Michael Mortimore researched and taught in taught at the Royal Tropical Institute of the northern Nigerian universities for 25 years before Netherlands as an Erasmus Mundus Scholar for moving to the UK and taking up consulting and the European Master of Science Programme in research projects with the Overseas Development International Health. He is currently finalising Institute, Cambridge University, the World the co-editing of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: Bank, UNEP, IUCN and other collaborators. His Vulnerabilities, Impacts and Responses, to be interest is in the development of Drylands, published by Palgrave. especially those in sub-Saharan Africa. Dolf J.H. te Lintelo is a Research Fellow in the Christine Okali is a sociologist whose research Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction Team at focuses on people–technology relations, and the IDS, University of Sussex. His research focuses long-term livelihood strategies of individuals and on the dynamics and outcomes of the politics of households, especially in the context of rural regulatory and social policy processes, including sub-Saharan Africa. She has research and policy the role of non-state actors representing the experience in the crop, forestry, livestock, and poor. Dolf has a particular interest in issues fisheries sectors with a particular interest in concerning urban informality, young people, and linking social, economic and technical in social protection and other policy measures understandings of decision-making in small-scale that can address hunger and malnutrition. He family farming. She has taught agriculture and has worked extensively in India, and increasingly development studies in universities in West conducts research, advisory work and trainings in Africa and the UK, and has worked with national sub-Saharan Africa. governments in West Africa and Asia, in the CGIAR international research centres, and more Kate Wellard works on livelihoods and institutions recently with the Food and Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa, and is now based at the Organization. Natural Resources Institute (NRI), UK. She has a long association with Bunda College, the James Sumberg is an agriculturalist by training University of Malawi and has worked on issues and has over 25 years’ experience working on around family and child labour on tobacco estates

iv Sumberg and Wellard Young People and Agriculture in Africa and the involvement of young people in small- history of childhood and youth, particularly in scale irrigated agriculture in Malawi. She is Indonesia. He is a founder member of the Land currently producing a series of policy briefs based Deal Politics Initiative. Recent publications on the Future Agricultures Consortium’s research include ‘Gendered Experiences of Dispossession: for CAADP policymakers, including one on Young Oil Palm Expansion in a Dayak Hibun People and Agriculture in Africa. Community in West Kalimantan’ (Journal of Peasant Studies 39.3–4, 2012), ‘Changing Ben White is Emeritus Professor of Rural Childhoods: Javanese Village Children in Three Sociology at the International Institute of Social Generations’ (Journal of Agrarian Change 12.1, Studies, The Hague. He has worked mainly on 2012), Rights and Wrongs of Children’s Work agrarian change and the anthropology and (Rutgers University Press, 2010).

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