The department is a lively community that is recognised internationally as one of the top centres for research and teaching in development studies.

Our courses offer excellent training for a career in international development or for advanced study, and attract students of the highest calibre from across the world.
“I had waited for 10 years before my dream to study in Oxford became a reality and the experience was truly beyond expectation”
Our students are taught to develop as critical and independent thinkers and when they leave us they are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to bring about real change.
“My time at Oxford strengthened my critical analysis and provided me with a unique interdisciplinary grounding in history, politics and economics that has equipped me well in dealing with public policy issues and program development strategy.”
Our courses offer excellent training for a career in international development or for advanced study, and attract students of the highest calibre from across the world.
“I had waited for 10 years before my dream to study in Oxford became a reality and the experience was truly beyond expectation”
Our courses offer excellent training for a career in international development or for advanced study, and attract students of the highest calibre from across the world.
“I had waited for 10 years before my dream to study in Oxford became a reality and the experience was truly beyond expectation”
Our students are taught to develop as critical and independent thinkers and when they leave us they are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to bring about real change.
“My time at Oxford strengthened my critical analysis and provided me with a unique interdisciplinary grounding in history, politics and economics that has equipped me well in dealing with public policy issues and program development strategy.”
Our students are taught to develop as critical and independent thinkers and when they leave us they are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to bring about real change.
“My time at Oxford strengthened my critical analysis and provided me with a unique interdisciplinary grounding in history, politics and economics that has equipped me well in dealing with public policy issues and program development strategy.”
Agriculture and food policies have always been at the heart of human development concerns. Building on my long experience in researching Amazonian agri-food systems, this programme examines related implications of climate change and sustainability challenges for the organisation of agriculture and trade in agricultural products between regions of the global North and South.
Several of the projects I am currently involved in look at the use of agroecological thinking and practice to support resource-constrained farmers in various Latin American locations where climate change is worsening a situation already rendered difficult by increasing soil erosion and adverse government policies.
In response to the fact that: (i) profit-driven agriculture is currently responsible for 20 percent of greenhouse emissions; and that (ii) 30 percent of foods produced as commodities end up as waste, I also work on a number of projects that focus on food chains (as they are variously modelled in the literature on commodity, supply and value chains) from both a consumer and a small and medium-size producer perspective.