As a postdoctoral researcher, I study how global value chains are governed, focusing on cocoa and coffee, voluntary sustainability standards and supply chain legislation, and living wages and incomes. I am also interested in sustainable farming and how it connects to labour and gender issues, and large-scale land investments. I use and guide students on the use of different theoretical frameworks, such as political economy, new institutional economics, and sustainable livelihoods, and combine impact evaluation techniques with qualitative and participatory methods and ethnography. My aim is to do research that is relevant to policy-making, with farmers, rural workers, and their organisations, and to explore complex governance systems and opportunities for innovation that are both effective, sustainable, inclusive, and equitable.
