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Research output per year
Development Experience
Having started my working life with ENDA-Zimbabwe (a Non-Governmental Organisation in Zimbabwe), I have spent the last 24 years researching, teaching and consulting in the field of Development Studies. The last 14 of these have been spent working as an academic here at the GDI where I am an a senior lecturer and deputy director of the Doctoral College. Over the years I have developed collaborative links with various organisations and have formed productive links with major development actors like DfID, BRAC International, Save the Children International, the UNECA, and The British Council.
Country Experience: Malawi, Mozambique; South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
BA (Hons), DipRUP, MScRUP Z'bwe PhD Manchester
Much of my academic career has been devoted to understanding the relationship between ‘place’ and ‘economy’ in Africa. I have sought to generate policy relevant knowledge on how changing agrarian structures transform and influence the way rural communities relate to natural resources (particularly land) and, how this relationship in turn shapes the way they make a living. Links between the rural and urban space economies also mean some of my work necessarily looks at how changes in agrarian structures affect the flows of commodities between the two space economies. Much of the research I do has a focus on smallholder livelihood production systems. I seek to understand global, national and local forces shaping the rural space economy in which smallholder farmers operate. I investigate their interactions with the state, markets, technology and the environment. In doing so I try to do what Doreen Masey describes as giving ‘process’ and ‘character’ to space by tracking rural social change both in the short term and, in what French historian Fernand Braudel has called the longue duree. On markets, I have a particular interest in understanding how rural commodity markets (especially land) work, the factors driving them and how they change social relations and reconfigure the rural space economy.
Recently I have worked on: Post Crisis Reconstruction in Zimbabwe; Venture Philanthropy. I am currently the principal investigator on an ESRC-GCRF funded Strategic Network looking at the re-emergence of National Development Planning in the global south. See more here
https://nationalplanning.wordpress.com/
To date I have supervised 14 PhD students to completion and am interested in students who want to do research in the areas related to:
Current Research: http://www.nationalplanning.org/ or watch a short video summary on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLicc5O5R68
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Deputy Chair Board of Directors, Trinity Church of England High School Academy
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Preprint/Working paper › Working paper
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Chimhowu, A. (PI) & Hulme, D. (CoI)
2/01/17 → 1/07/18
Project: Research
Lindley, S. (PI), Agnew, C. (CoI), Chimhowu, A. (CoI), Handley, J. (CoI), Hulme, D. (CoI), Moser, C. (CoI), Roy, M. (CoI), Stein Heinemann, A. (CoI) & Tippett, J. (CoI)
1/12/10 → 30/11/13
Project: Research
Chimhowu, A. (Participant)
Impact: Societal impacts
17/01/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert comment
24/11/17
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert comment