Research projects

Imogen was investigating urban food systems in West Africa within the UrbanFoodPlus anthropology project. UrbanFoodPlus uses qualitative, quantitative and participatory approaches to investigate links between farmer practice and technology adoption in Ghana and Burkina Faso. The anthropology subproject draws upon Science and Technology Studies and Political Ecology, focusing on how identity and practice are linked and changed in the dynamic environment of contemporary African agriculture. Taking an agroecological systems approach, Imogen's personal interest within the project is on the inputs and markets associated with traditional and exotic, commercial and semi-subsistence vegetable crops.