Knowledge Mobilization

It's been quite some time since I've had a chance to update this page. For those of you who might be interested in checking out my book on cotton, the introduction is available here. If you like what you see in the introduction to Governing Cotton: Globalization and Poverty in Africa, the book is available from the publisher and from sellers in the UK, the US, France, Germany and Canada. To disseminate the research and facilitate knowledge to action, I recently gave a talk at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and gave a copy of the book to Wits Department of International Relations. I subsequently moved on to conduct a seminar on my findings at Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA), a Dar es Salaam-based think tank. The Business Times published reports on this event in advance of the seminar and after it took place, and a copy of the book was donated to the REPOA library. After Tanzania I moved on to Cameroon to give a talk to over fifty students and faculty at the University of Buea, and donated a copy of the book to their library. I am currently revising an article that compares corporate social responsibility efforts in Africa's cotton and timber sectors, and will post a new update when that is out.