Dr Graham Clarkson
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Senior Research Fellow and PICSA Manager
Specialism
Promoting smallholder farmer adaptation and developing resilience to climate variability and changeAreas of interest
Extension and agricultural innovation systems, equitable climate services and adaptation, participatory methods, communication for development, decision-making in Smallholder farming systems.
Postgraduate supervision
I co-supervise a number of PhD students with interests in climate services, participatory methods, behaviour change.
Research centres and groups
- Walker Institute
Research projects
A selection of recent research projects are listed below:
Principal investigator
- Preparing for scale: E-PICSA in Zambia and Malawi (funded by GIZ; 2024-25; 拢465,598)
- PICSA in Haiti (funded by World Food Programme; 2023-24; 拢24,133)
- PICSA in Kyrgyzstan (funded by World Food Programme; 2022-25; 拢40,815)
- Agricultural Climate Resilience Enhancement Initiative (ICPAC; 2023-24; 拢17,365)
- PICSA in Mozambique (World Food Programme; 2019-ongoing)
- Digital Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (E-PICSA) (GIZ; 2022-24; 拢564,739)
- PICSA as part of the Integrated Climate Risk Management for Food Security and Livelihoods in Zimbabwe (World Food Programme; (2022-26; 拢239,868)
- Improving Food Security for Smallholder Farmers in Odisha using climate resilient services (World Food Programme; 2021-24; 拢28,897)
- Agrometeorology for Farmers & Extension Workers -鈥渋mplement trainings and radio programs on agrometeorology for farmers and extension workers鈥 (GIZ; 2021-22; 拢27,577)
Co-investigator
- Consultancy on participatory integrated climate services for agriculture (PICSA) under the intra-acp climate services and related applications programme (CLIMSA) (CIMH; 2022-25; 拢94,625)
- The potential for Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) in Dominica (UNDP; 2019-22; 拢43,168)
Background
Graham is a human geographer with more than ten years of post-doctoral experience. He completed his PhD, 'Land Use Intensification and Trees on Farms in Malawi', in 2010 at the University of Hull. He joined the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 as a Post doctoral Research Associate in 2012, working on the ESRC funded 鈥Innovation systems, agricultural growth and rural livelihoods in East Africa鈥. In 2017 Graham was appointed as Senior Research Fellow and PICSA manager. His primary research interests are based around rural livelihoods and rural change, small scale agriculture and innovation, participatory approaches and climate services.
Graham has a broad experience across different contexts, working in sub Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, Asia and Latin America on projects funded by the United Nations (World Food Programme, United Nations Development Programme and FAO), CGIAR centres (IFAD, ICRISAT and CCAFS), GIZ, USAID, UKAID and Economic and Social Research Council. Graham integrates both qualitative and quantitative research methods with expertise in participatory approaches for research and practical application. Graham's current research involves scaling and sustaining the PICSA approach in a range of different contexts, understanding the processes and effect of the approach on trained farmers and intermediaries, developing and scaling a digitalised PICSA approach and developing new ways to improve the effectiveness of PICSA.