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Dr Md. Mofakkarul Islam
Associate Professor of Food Security, Environment and Development
Mofa has joined the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) in July 2020 after having worked as a Senior Lecturer in Global Food Security & Development at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) for over seven years (2013-2020). Prior to that Mofa held (during 2009-2013) various research positions at the Open University (UK) and Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), following the completion of his PhD from Massey University (New Zealand) in 2008. Mofa also worked for over six years (1997-2003) as an Assistant Professor at Bangladesh Agricultural University after completing his BSc in Agriculture and MS in Agricultural Extension degrees from the same institution.
At the University of Greenwich, Mofa leads the ‘Global Sustainable Development’ MSc programme and co-leads the ‘Climate Change Research Group’. Mofa is an interdisciplinary social scientist with interest in the broad areas of food security, environment, and development. Systems thinking and approaches as well as theoretical and methodological pluralism often underpin his works. Mofa’s research has been published in renowned journals like: Global Environmental Change, World Development, Land Use Policy, Food Security, Ecological Indicators, Journal of Rural Studies, Journal of Environmental Psychology, Applied Geography, and Journal of Flood Risk Management. He has served as an editor of a special issue (September 2024) of the prestigious ‘Agricultural Systems’ journal on inclusive agrifood innovations. To date, Mofa has supervised six doctoral students to successful completion and is currently supervising several others.
During his career Mofa has been involved as a Principal and Co-Investigator in a range of international development projects funded by the ERA-NET, FCDO, World Bank, JSPS, and industry. He has worked as a consultant (Subject Matter Expert) for the CGIAR, which is the world’s largest agricultural innovation network. Mofa continues to serve the wider academic community also through other involvements, such as conference presentations, external examiner of doctoral students, reviewer to many international journals, member of the Development Studies Association (DSA), and academic adviser to the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission.
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