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> Natural Resources research group

Barbara Adolph

Principal researcher, Natural Resources

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Expertise

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.

Before IIED

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.

Current work

Setting up of a “food and agriculture” forum in IIED; research on agricultural knowledge systems and research uptake

Interviews

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Languages: English, German, English and French (fluent), Spanish (intermediate), Hindi and Bahasa Indonesia (basic)

Barbara Adolph's projects

View of a field and a farm.

Towards planet and people-positive agriculture in East Africa

Project, Nov 2020
A conservation agriculture demonstration at the Golden Valley Agricultural Research Trust, Zambia. Conservation agriculture can increase productivity and improve soil structure (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)

Social and environmental trade-offs in African agriculture

Project, Aug 2017
A woman using homemade compost in her garden in eastern Burkina Faso

Trade-offs in sustainable intensification

Project, Aug 2013
Agricultural biodiversity in a Peruvian market. Photo: Bioversity International/A. Camacho

Building resilient food systems

Project, Aug 2013
Farmer stands in her field of groundnuts boarded by maize in Malawi

Democratising food and agricultural research

Project, Aug 2012

Latest publications

Trade-offs in sustainable intensification: Malawi country report

Supporting smallholders’ decision making: managing trade-offs and synergies for sustainable agricultural intensification

Food and forests: understanding agriculture and conservation trade-offs in Ghana

Trade-offs in sustainable agricultural intensification: the farmers’ perspective

SENTINEL: Social and environmental trade-offs in African agriculture

Towards a shared vision: action plans for adapted advisory services in West Africa’s rice irrigation schemes

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Barbara Adolph's blog posts

Maize cultivation along the Kafue river in Kitwe, Zambia. Water levels in the river have decreased because of deforestation in the river’s catchment area (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)

Food, ecosystems, equality – can we have it all?

Blog, Dec 2017
A young rice farmer at Sélingué, Mali. A new report urges governments and development agencies to develop context-specific strategies and support systems for agricultural advisory services that meet the needs of local farmers (Photo: Mike Goldwater)

Growing rice needs more than soil and water

Blog, Sep 2016
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, Oct 2014
Farmers and extension workers jointly assessing an okra field in Balkh Province, Northern Afghanistan

Agricultural Research for Development: Are we moving in the right direction?

Blog, Nov 2012
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