Erin Wilkus

Sacramento, California Area United States

Research Officer at Queenland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI)

Agriculture / Forests / Fisheries

Research and capacity building to promote seed sector development in rural East Africa. My research focus is on seed security dynamics and the impact of seed sector development interventions (e.g. participatory breeding activities) on household-level adoption, market participation and crop genetic structure and diversity among smallholder farmers in Eastern Africa. I consider the impact of seed sector development initiatives by drawing from methods spanning crop-centric and social sciences including basic population genomics analysis and econometric methods. I am particularly interested in participatory breeding activities and market assessments that incorporate producer and consumer fee...