Research fellows

The Central Research Team has recruited a team of research fellows with a diverse and complementary range of specialisms, who will help RIU to capture the learning:

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Ann Kingiri
Anna will be supporting the Africa Country Programmes in Rwanda and Tanzania. She will also be publishing papers which are looking at innovation and gender, and developments in the biotechnology sector such as genetically modified organisms.

RIUtv meets...
Ann Kingiri
...to talk about her research into gender and how research and development can be engendered
Ann Kingiri
...to talk about her research into bio-technology and GMOs

RIU discussion paper 06 October 2010 (PDF 350KB)

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Elias Madzudzo
Elias will be supporting the Africa Country Programmes in Malawi and Zambia. He will be publishing papers on innovation brokerage and the work of FIPS-Africa.

RIUtv meets...
Elias Madzudzo
...to talk about his research into innovation brokerage.

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Utiang P Ugbe
Utiang will be working with the Africa Country Programmes in Nigeria and Sierra Leone. He will be publishing papers on legumes storage, building the agriculture sector capacity through innovation and a case study of PAID.

RIUtv meets...
Utiang P Ugbe
...to talk about his research programmes in West Africa.

RIU discussion paper 05 October 2010 (PDF 300KB)

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TS Vamsidhar Reddy
Vamsi will support the Asia Programme. He will publish papers on opportunity-led development drawing on the Asia portfolio.

RIUtv meets...
TS Vamsidhar Reddy
...to talk about his research drawing on the RIU Asia portfolio.

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Andrew Adwera
Andrew will be working with the RIU Best Bets, supporting Norman Clark, RIU's senior advisor, to ensure that the learning from these private sector-led initiatives is captured.

RIUtv meets...
Andrew Adwera
...to hear about how he will review policy and practice lessons from the RIU Best Bets StopStriga and the armyworm forecasting and control programmes and how the private sector is taking roles traditionally taken by the public sector.

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Hemant Ojha
Hemant is compiling and editing a series of case studies exploring the evolution of adaptive collaborative approaches in agriculture and natural resources management.