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Camilla Toulmin

Senior associate, Climate Change

Camilla Toulmin is an economist with particular expertise on dryland Africa, and is a former director of IIED.
Full biography

She specialises in African agriculture, drylands, tenure and climate change. She became a senior associate at IIED in 2017, after 12 years at its director. She has been appointed Professor in Practice at the University of Lancaster's Environment Centre (LEC) and is currently an associate at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET).

Her work has combined field research, policy analysis and advocacy. Her interests include building alliances with those on the frontline of sustainable development and land rights in Africa. Her current work focuses on climate change, property rights, global governance and natural resources.

Expertise

Economist. Current and future policy thinking on all aspects of the environment and development agenda, particularly building alliances with those in the frontline of sustainable development; land rights in Africa and all regions.

Before IIED

Education: BA Economics (Cambridge) MSc Development Economics (SOAS) DPhil Economics (Oxford)

Current work

Climate change, property rights, global governance, and natural resources

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Telephone: 
+44 (0) 20 3463 7399
Email: 
camilla.toulmin@iied.org
Twitter: @camillatoulmin
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Languages: English, French

Camilla Toulmin's blog posts

Woman walking through a field, carrying a bag on her head.

How to green Africa from the grassroots

Blog, Jan 2021
A herd of goats.

Farmer-herder conflict: open your eyes, change the narrative, find solutions

Blog, Nov 2020
Camilla Toulmin holding her new book

Climate change, conflict, migration, and land grabs: 35 years of village life in Mali

Blog, Mar 2020
Oxen plough teams bring bigger fields and easier farmwork (Photo: Camilla Toulmin/IIED)

Notes from the field – Dlonguebougou, Mali

Blog, Apr 2017
The University of Southampton made a series of large scale photos of the village ranging from 1952 to 2016. Toulmin met with villagers to discuss what the images might mean for the future (Photo: Camilla Toulmin/IIED)

Rainfall, grazing, families and land in Dlonguebougou

Blog, Nov 2016
The new university in Ségou. Mali's capital city, Bamako, is the nation's political and economic power base – greater decentralisation will bring many benefits (Photo: Camilla Toulmin/IIED)

Four challenges facing Mali amid efforts to rebuild

Blog, Jun 2016
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