Natalie Lovell is a Senior Project Support Officer and works with researchers, knowledge and communications specialists across the institute.
Natalie is responsible for providing project support in both the Resource Politics and the Rural Futures Clusters. She earned her BA International Relations from the University of Leeds, and MA Gender Studies from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.
Changing rainfall patterns caused by climate change can increase the severity and frequency of both droughts and floods. This is a cause for concern when these historically new patterns occur in drought-prone areas. While local communities in arid rural areas may be used to adapting to the...
Forest carbon has been called a pseudo-commodity, meaning offsetting schemes such as REDD+ can increase the value of tropical forests gained from the developmental rent, even where integration into an imagined global carbon market is never achieved. Watch...
CDI webinar series on methods for theory-based evaluation
The private sector has become an important partner in development interventions that aim to make market systems more favourable for smallholder producers and low-income consumers of food. In these programmes, public funds support private ventures. Theory based evaluations are widely used to...
Recognising the importance of a robust procurement framework to attract private investment into the infrastructure sector, including energy, in 2017 the Government of Ethiopia introduced the Public–Private Partnerships policy. From 2018, several non-hydro renewable energy projects were...