Short Articles and Blog Posts
Behavioural Nudges: Mildly Paternalistic or a Threat to Economic Justice for the Poor? Next Billion, 21 May 2018
Philanthrocapitalists meet the world’s poor: International Development in the fintech era, Critical Macro Finance, 19 January 2017
What can we learn from distance learners?, Devex, 4 April 2016
Trade, sustainability and global governance, Wicked Issues, 4 April 2016
Private finance and the post-2015 development agenda, Development Finance Agenda, 1(3) 24-27 (January 2016)
GM crops and the developing world: opposing sides miss the bigger picture, The Conversation, 12 November 2015
Financing the sustainable development goals: reflections on FfD3, Wicked Issues, 17 August 2015
Private finance and the post-2015 development agenda, Open Democracy, 23 May 2015
Investing in Food Security? Philanthropcapitalism, biotechnology and development, Open Democracy, 18 July 2013
‘Golden Rice’ and the GM Crop debate , The Crossing, 24 June 2013
‘Golden Rice’: a golden opportunity?, The Crossing, 20 April 2011
Film
Video: Seeds and sustainability
STEPS Centre, University of Sussex
Between 2007 and 2011 I was member of a research team that explored alternative pathways for maize-based farming systems in Kenya in the context of climate change. We produced this short film on our findings:
Seeds and sustainability: Maize Pathways in Kenya from STEPS Centre on Vimeo.
I research and write about international aid and development, and food and agriculture