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Dr Rebecca Sarku

  • Position: Research Fellow
  • Areas of expertise: Climate adaptation; Climate Information Services; Designing of Innovative Governance Arrangement; Adaptive Decision-making; and Digital Technologies for Agriculture and Sustainable Food Systems
  • Email: R.Sarku@leeds.ac.uk
  • Website: LinkedIn | Googlescholar | ORCID

Profile

I am a dedicated researcher committed to addressing poverty, food insecurity, and environmental challenges. My goal is to deliver innovative, multidisciplinary, and result-oriented solutions in complex and marginalized communities. With over 10 years of experience in academia and international organisations, I possess excellent skills in strategic and creative thinking, research, program design and management, stakeholder engagement, and policy analysis.

I earned her PhD degree from Wageningen University and have been a DAAD Climap Africa Postdoctoral Research Fellow as well as an Alexander von Humboldt/Bayer Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Currently, my research focuses on the CGIAR’s Climate Resilience (ClimBeR initiative) and iSPARK projects in Kenya and Zambia. Additionally, I analyse the politics on Agriculture and Food Security in the UNFCCC system. 

Responsibilities

  • Research Fellow in Climate Change and Food Systems
<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Any research projects I'm currently working on will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>

Qualifications

  • PhD, Climate Information Services,Public Administration and Policy Group, Wageningen University
  • Mphil. Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana
  • BA (Hons), Geography & Rural Development, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology