Common
property resources
Land use planning
Common property resources
Email: J.F.Morton@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Development Anthropology, and Associate Research Director (Social Sciences). Over 25 years experience in applied social research and consultancy for rural development. Specialist in social, institutional and policy aspects of livestock and pastoralist development, including drought management. Lead Author on smallholder and subsistence agriculture for the 2007 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Field experience in numerous African countries (especially in the Horn of Africa), South Asia and Mongolia. Fluent in French, with some Arabic.
Email: V.J.Nelson@gre.ac.uk
Social development and environment specialist; member of NRI’s Livelihoods and Institutions Group. 16 years experience in research and consultancy relating to poverty, livelihoods and natural resources. Experience in community development, ethical and fair trade, climate-change adaptation, indigenous knowledge, land policy, agro-ecology. Skills in: project management; planning and evaluation; participation methodologies; gender analysis and impact assessment. Long-term experience in Mexico; short-term missions throughout Africa and Latin America. English mother tongue and good Spanish.
Email: J.F.Quan@gre.ac.uk
Social and political scientist. 27 years of development experience throughout Africa (especially Mozambique), in Latin America (especially Brazil), UK and elsewhere. Specialist expertise in land tenure and land reform; research focus on rural territorial development and rural governance under global economic and environmental change. From 1998 to 2003, seconded to DFID as specialist land adviser, playing a key role in strengthening harmonized global efforts to secure land access for the poor. Native English speaker; fluent Portuguese; good French and Spanish.
Land use planning
Email: R.B.Ridgway@gre.ac.uk
Land-use planner and land-tenure specialist with more than 40 years' experience in consultancy and training on participatory approaches to land development. Skills focus on project management and institutional strengthening of national land-administration agencies. Advice has been given through long-term and short-term assignments in Africa, Caribbean, South-East Asia and CIS countries. Based since 2005 in Namibia on long-term EC programme as land-reform adviser to Ministry of Lands and Resettlement.
Email: J.F.Quan@gre.ac.uk
Social and political scientist. 27 years of development experience throughout Africa (especially Mozambique), in Latin America (especially Brazil), UK and elsewhere. Specialist expertise in land tenure and land reform; research focus on rural territorial development and rural governance under global economic and environmental change. From 1998 to 2003, seconded to DFID as specialist land adviser, playing a key role in strengthening harmonized global efforts to secure land access for the poor. Native English speaker; fluent Portuguese; good French and Spanish.
Further Information
Prof Andrew Westby, Director, Food Technologist
a.westby@gre.ac.uk Work +44 (0)1634 88 3478 Fax +44 (0)1634 88 3386
