Mr Rodd Myers
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Research Student | Rodd dot Myers at uea dot ac dot uk |
Biography
I am an experienced results-based project manager and technical assistance provider with over 15 years of community economic development and private sector development experience in 18 countries with NGOs, multilateral organisations and governments. I have worked in project design, monitoring and evaluation, and as an advisor in institutional, agriculture, micro-enterprise and co-operative development. The bulk of my work was with low income Canadians for eight years, specifically with recent immigrants, youth, low income workers, and women surviving domestic violence. I worked for another seven years on international agriculture and co-operative development.
My areas of expertise include:
- livelihoods development
- value chain assessment and upgrading
- private sector development
- participatory data collection and analysis
- co-operatives
- institutional capacity-building
- organisational management
- agronomy
- micro-finance
- agricultural financing
- rural development
- gender dimensions of development
- environmental aspects of development
Academic Background
MSc Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (SARD)
The University of London (U.K.). The Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, T.H. Huxley School of Environment, Earth Sciences and Engineering at Wye. University of London.
BA Honours Development Studies, The University of Calgary (Canada).
Africa: Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Americas: Canada, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru
Asia: Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR
Languages
English and Indonesian
More information
For more information and a complete profile, please visit http://devex.com/roddmyers
Key Research Interests
My research is a comparative case study of the value chains of rattan and agarwood originating from the same restricted access forest in Indonesia and extending, through upgrading, to international consumption. I am particularly interested in by what mechanisms value chain actors benefit from the products. By examining the social network of actors, and the materiality of the resources and products, I look at how actors gain, maintain and control access and in what ways they are excluded from benefiting. This is a mixed-method, multi-scalar research project with implications for the consideration of access in conservation and development models and policy. I have the pleasure of being supervised by Prof Thomas Sikor and Dr Adrian Martin.
