Centre for Development, Environment and Policy

Professor Nigel Poole

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Roles: Professor of International Development Policy Food Studies Centre Member Centre for Development, Environment and Policy Member
Department: Centre for Development, Environment and Policy
Qualifications: BSc (Notts); MSc (Reading); MSc, PhD (London)
Email address: n.poole@soas.ac.uk

Biography

Nigel originally trained in natural sciences and agricultural extension.

He switched into socioeconomics and has experience in diverse countries in Latin America, the Mediterranean Basin, Sub-Saharan Africa and South and South-east Asia. His teaching is mainly in marketing, business and knowledge management. Since 2004 he has supervised 16 PhD students to completion and co-supervised a number of others.

His research interests are in agrifood systems organisation and performance, principally in developing economies, addressing issues of:

Value chain approaches to agricultural market development, nutrition and poverty reduction
Marketing, information, communication and market coordination
Management of natural resources and derived products
Livelihoods, small business development, producer organisations and capacity building

This work uses institutional concepts in agricultural economics and supply chain management, and also draws on other disciplines. He is currently completing analyses of dairy production and consumption as part of research on agrifood health and nutrition value chain linkages with the DFID-funded multi-institutional LANSA research programme in South Asia, covering Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

For this programme he led the Afghanistan Working Group and the work on value chains for nutrition. He has been a member of the Board of CATIE (Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza/Centre for Tropical Agricultural Research and Teaching), Costa Rica, since 2013 and was Chairman for two years till September 2019.

He is Chairman of a small charity supporting schooling in Delhi, India (Wye and Brook India Trust, registered charity number 288217).

Publications

Contact Nigel

Email: n.poole@soas.ac.uk

Centre for Development, Environment and Policy

The Centre for Development, Environment and Policy at SOAS University of London.

Department of Development Studies, Centre for Development, Environment and Policy & Centre for Water and Development

MSc Climate Change and Development

MSc/PGDip/PGCert Climate Change and Development (Online) at SOAS University of London

Centre for Development, Environment and Policy & Department of Development Studies

MSc Sustainable Development

MSc/PGDip/PGCert Sustainable Development (Online) at SOAS University of London

Professor Nigel Poole

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Biography

Publications

Authored Books Open

Smallholder Agriculture and Market Participation

A Global Review of Rural Community Enterprises: the long and winding road for creating viable businesses

Potato Industry in Ecuador: Production and Commercialisation

Market Systems Analysis

Economics for the Agrifood Industry

Agricultural and Food Marketing in Developing Countries

Articles Open

Flour blending can mitigate food insecurity and economic stress

Continuing cereals research for sustainable health and well-being

Sowing the wheat seeds of Afghanistan's future

Near- to long-term measures to stabilize global wheat supplies and food security.

Role of staple cereals in human nutrition: Separating the wheat from the chaff in the infodemics age

Viewpoint: Agri-nutrition research: Revisiting the contribution of maize and wheat to human nutrition and health

Being realistic about the contribution of private businesses to public nutrition objectives

Food production and consumption in Bamyan Province, Afghanistan: the challenges of sustainability and seasonality for dietary diversity

Buy or make? Agricultural production diversity, markets and dietary diversity in Afghanistan

Principles of innovation to build nutrition-sensitive food systems in South Asia

Agricultural inputs and nutrition in South Asia

Leveraging agriculture for nutrition in South Asia: What do we know, and what have we learned?

Are agriculture and nutrition policies and practice coherent? Stakeholder evidence from Afghanistan

Ambition meets reality: Lessons from the taro boom in Nicaragua

Building dairy value chains in Badakhshan, Afghanistan

Value chains for nutrition in South Asia: Who delivers nutritious foods, how and to whom?

Stuck in a rut: emerging cocoa cooperatives in Peru and the factors that influence their performance

Assessing food value chain pathways, linkages and impacts for better nutrition of vulnerable groups

Tree products, food security and livelihoods: a household study of Burkina Faso

Reducing Anemia Prevalence in Afghanistan: Socioeconomic Correlates and the Particular Role of Agricultural Assets

Emergent supply chains in the agrifood sector: insights from a whole chain approach

Governing the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Interactions, Infrastructures, and Institutions

Facilitating entry into shea processing: a study of two interventions in northern Ghana

Changing asset endowments and smallholder participation in higher value markets: Evidence from certiﬁed coffee producers in Nicaragua

Building cooperative capacity: the specialty coffee sector in Nicaragua

Partnerships in fairtrade coffee: a close-up look at how buyers and NGOs build supply capacity in Nicaragua

Commercialisation: A meta-approach for agricultural development among smallholder farmers in Africa?

Asset building in response to value chain development: lessons from taro producers in Nicaragua

Value chain perspectives and literature: a review

Education For All and For What? Life-skills and livelihoods in rural communities

Sourcing strategies in the Italian coffee industry

Feeding the Worlth Healthily: the Challenge of Measuring the effects of Agriculture on Health

The use of intellectual property protection by micro, small and medium scale enterprises: a case study of Ghana

Market linkages: characterizing business-to-business relationships in Vietnamese vegetable supply chains

The role of inter-personal relationships in the dissolution of business relationships

Making markets - and institutions - work for the poor

The failure of multinational food retailers in Japan: a matter of convenience?

Constructing livelihoods in rural Mexico: milpa in Mayan culture

Quality perceptions under evolving information conditions: implications for diet, health and consumer satisfaction

Rural poverty in Mexico: assets and livelihood strategies among the Mayas of Yucatán

Traditional vs. Modern Food Systems? Insights from Vegetable Supply Chains to Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)

Evaluación de preferencias hacia las mandarinas en el mercado británico. Aplicación de las subastas Vickrey

The Economic Impact of Supermarket Growth on Vietnamese Food Supply Chains

Mercados: Análisis del comportamiento de compra de vino del consumidor británico

Food safety performance in European Union accession countries: benchmarking the fresh produce import sector in Hungary

Poverty, inequality and ethnicity: a note to policy makers on Latin America

Collaborative commerce or just common sense? Insights from vegetable supply chains in Ho Chi Minh City

The development of private fresh produce safety standards: implications for developing Mediterranean exporting countries

Perennialism and poverty reduction: knowledge strategies for tree and forest products

Analysing linkages between strategy, performance, management structure and culture in the Spanish fresh produce industry

Livelihood gains and ecological costs of NTFP dependence: assessing the roles of dependence, ecological knowledge and market structure in three contrasting human and ecological settings in south India

Markets, Institutions and Technology: Missing Links in Livelihoods Analysis

Modelling Vegetable Marketing Systems in South East Asia: phenomenological insights from Vietnam

Improving agri-food marketing in developing economies: Contractual vegetable markets in Ghana

Az értéklánc és ellátási lánc benchmarkingja az Egyesült Királyság és Magyarország friss zöldség-gyümölcs importpiacán

Agricultural market knowledge: systems for delivery of a private and public good

Risk Management and Food Safety: global issues for business

Identificación de grupos estratégicos en el sector hortofrutícola español

Air pollution effects and initiatives to improve food quality assurance in India

A Repositioning Strategy for Olive oil in the UK market

Quality in citrus fruit: to degreen or not degreen?

Élelmiszerbiztonság, minőség Magyarországon és az Egyesült Királyságban (Food safety and quality in Hungary)

NTFPs and forest fruits in South-east México

Production and marketing strategies of Spanish citrus farmers

NTFPs and forest fruits in South-east Mexico

Análisis de las características productivas y de comercialización de los citricultores valencianos y su relación

Quality assurance systems for air pollution impacts on vegetable systems in India

Quality and safety of vegetables in India