Biography
Ian Scoones is a professor at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in the UK. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective to land, agriculture and livelihoods, he has worked on issues of environmental and agrarian change in Zimbabwe since 1985. He was the co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre focusing on the politics of sustainability and was principal investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant funded PASTRES project, which explored pastoralism and uncertainty across three continents.