Current research projects
Community-Based Forestry and the Modernization of Smallholder Farming: The case of Ethiopia
In this project, we investigate the impact of Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM), devolving extraction rights to local communities, on the modernization of farming, rural livelihoods and forest conservation using experimental methods.
Rural households, Agriculture, and Climate change – why and how farmers (do not) adapt in Ethiopia (RACE)
In this project, we investigate why and how rural households in Ethiopia (do not) adapt through a combination of qualitative, quantitative, and experimental methods, using an integrated watershed management lens (Read here for more details).
Climate-smart Futures in Rural Tanzania (CliFT)
In this project, we investigate the role of farmer organizations on climate change adaptation of smallholder farmers through a combination of qualitative, quantitative, and experimental methods (Read here for more details).
Breeding for coffee and cocoa root resilience in low input farming systems based on improved rootstocks (BOLERO)
As part of a larger EU-funded project, we investigate the perceived risks, adoption and productivity of grafted coffee using qualitative and quantitative methods.
Recently completed projects
Environmental public goods From Farming through Effective Contract Targeting (EFFECT)
As part of a larger EU-funded project, we tested alternative contractual arrangements, which reduce potential barriers to collective action and improve coordination in improving water quality using field experiments with farmers in catchments that are selected based on environmental constraints, types of agricultural holdings and measures of social capital in the farming community (Read here for more details).