Joanne began at SEI York in July 2012. She has experience in the field of water and soil fertility management in small-scale agriculture in semi-arid regions, working in sub-Saharan Africa. She has specifically been involved in developing scoping decision-support frameworks for technology up-take in agricultural water management and for rapid assessment of potential environmental impacts of livestock at landscape scale. She is also building experience in landscape-scale biomass management and interactions with soil fertility. Her focus is to build capacity in planning of sustainable agricultural development for future livelihood resilience and food security by involving stakeholders in developing representative models and scenario thinking for their contexts.

Joanne is currently undertaking research with SEI towards a PhD.