Agroecological innovations; Critical pedagogy; Social movements; Participatory methodologies; Knowledge co-production; Low-tech soil testing

I am an agroecologist focussing on farmer and citizen participation in research as a transformative process. I have a background in the social sciences and environmental humanities, as well as professional experience and qualifications in agronomy, botany and organic horticulture. From this generalist base, I use agroecological practice - whether through soil testing or organisational development - as an entry point into collaborative actions towards agroecological transitions.

My research is also guided by a facilitation approach based in critical pedagogy and popular education. I take this approach as I believe many of the problems of modern food and agricultural systems are driven by an increasingly industrial, technical and exclusionary research and knowledge economy. For agroecological transitions to be successful we need to enact a radically open, collaborative and bottom-up knowledge production paradigm. In that spirit, do get in contact if you’d like to propose a collaboration!