Laura Sicili

Researcher, Agro-ecology

Languages: English, English, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese

Expertise

Social capital and sustainable natural resource management; Agricultural Innovation; Conservation farming; Private equity agribusiness investments in Africa

Long-term work experience in Mozambique and Lesotho

Before IIED

Post-doc research fellow at Future Agricultures Consortium

Research consultant to Curtis Research, IFAD and FAO

UNV/FAO Specialist in Food Security and Sustainable Livelihoods

Blogs

Workshop participants in Mozambique discuss results from group work on how to make farming more sustainable (Photo: Lynn Boyd, ADRA Mozambique)

Five ways to make farming more sustainable

Blog, 20 May 2015

A farmer near Bagré dam in Burkina Faso dries paddy rice (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)

Seven papers unpick debates on African agriculture and rural development

Blog, 15 October 2014

Delegates at the international symposium on agroecology (Photo: John Choptiany/FAO)

Agroecology offers FAO a 'new window' on agriculture

Blog, 02 October 2014

An example of crops grown through no-till farming in Western Australia (Photo: Bill Crabtree)

Spreading the word about the no-till agricultural revolution

Blog, 31 March 2014

Publications

Africa’s farmland in changing hands: A review of literature and case studies from sub-Saharan Africa

01 March 2017

Access to farmland gets quick and dirty in sub-Saharan Africa

01 January 2017

Growing sustainable agriculture in Mozambique

01 April 2015

Sustainable intensification revisited

01 March 2015

Sustainable intensification revisited

01 March 2015

Sustainable agriculture for small-scale farmers in Mozambique - A scoping report

01 March 2015

Agroecology - What it is and what it has to offer

01 June 2014

Access to land and the future of farming in Africa

01 April 2014