Topic: Class, gender and generation in agricultural production in Mozambique.
Speaker: Helena Pérez Niño, Postdoc at PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, South Africa; and SOAS, University of London
Date:  November 24, 2016, 19:00-21:30 (Thursday)
Venue: North Auditorium of Xiushan Activity Center, North Campus of Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100
Language: English (with bilingual slides)
Contact: Rui Li, 18829352158, angela12321@163.com

Short-bio of the speaker:

Helena Pérez Niño is a Postdoctoral Fellow at PLAAS, the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of Western Cape in South Africa where she conducts research on agrarian political economy in Southern Africa. Her work on contract farming and tobacco agriculture focuses on the production relations within households and between farmers and workers in agrarian frontiers. Prior to joining PLAAS, Helena was a teaching fellow on agrarian development, post-conflict transitions and the political economy of development at SOAS, University of London where she obtained her PhD with a dissertation on postconflict reconstruction and the tobacco boom on the Malawi-Mozambique borderland.