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Sacramento, California Area United States
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Research Officer at Queenland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI)
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Agriculture / Forests / Fisheries
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Research and capacity building to promote seed sector development in rural East Africa. My research focus is on seed security dynamics and the impact of seed sector development interventions (e.g. participatory breeding activities) on household-level adoption, market participation and crop genetic structure and diversity among smallholder farmers in Eastern Africa. I consider the impact of seed sector development initiatives by drawing from methods spanning crop-centric and social sciences including basic population genomics analysis and econometric methods. I am particularly interested in participatory breeding activities and market assessments that incorporate producer and consumer fee...
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farming system
eastern africa
diversity
typology
equitability
food availability
modelling
resilience
smallholder
farming
seed systems
dissertation
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