James Sumberg

James Sumberg is an Emeritus Research Fellow at IDS. An agriculturalist by training, he spent most of his career studying small-scale agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa, and particularly West Africa. Before joining IDS in 2009, he worked at the University of East Anglia, The New Economics Foundation, an international NGO in West Africa and three international agricultural research institutes. Since 2009 his research has focused on young people in rural Africa. He has published widely on technological change, policy and youth employment.