Barbara Adolph
Principal researcher, Natural Resources
Agricultural knowledge systems, research uptake and use, research and advisory services management, aid effectiveness and donor harmonisation for agricultural research and rural development, monitoring and evaluation of agricultural projects and programmes, organisational development support to agricultural research organisations.
Setting up of a “food and agriculture” forum in IIED; research on agricultural knowledge systems and research uptake
Senior consultant in Triple Line Consulting Ltd; senior scientist at the Natural Resources Institute; research fellow at the University of Hohenheim, Germany and ICRISAT, India.
Education: MBA, Open University, UK; PhD, Hohenheim University, Germany; MSc Geography, University of Bonn, Germany.
German, English and French (fluent), Spanish (intermediate), Hindi and Bahasa Indonesia (basic)
Barbara Adolph's blog posts
Sustainable landscapes are essential for our future. A major international gathering will this week look at how to speed up action for more resilient, equitable, productive and climate-friendly landscapes. IIED and partners have recently launched a new project that will use innovative ways of working to promote these outcomes in Africa.
Research in West Africa finds that smallholder farmers are not benefiting enough from investments in irrigation because they are not getting access to the agriculture services they need.
Returning from the second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development, Barbara Adolph says that while the concepts and language of smallholder farmer inclusion is right, researchers are still struggling to include smallholder farmers and non-governmental organisations in setting research objectives and in making decisions.