Natasha Grist

Research Fellow, Agricultural Development and Policy

Natasha Grist specialises in climate change, agriculture, adaptation and international development, with a background in social and environmental science.

Natasha spent the last 2.5 years as Head of Research for the Climate and Development Knowledge Network, developing strategy and commissioning research of a £15m 5 year applied research programme. Previously in ODI she worked on agriculture and climate change issues, including how agriculture is being framed in the international negotiations, adaptation planning at country level for the UN and IFAD, and research-policy making influence both in the UK and internationally.

Prior to joining ODI, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change. Her PhD and MSc research was based in Brazilian Amazonia, focussing on links between livelihoods, urbanisation and natural resource management.

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Agricultural development policy: a contemporary agenda

Publication - Research reports and studies - 31 May 2013

Steve Wiggins, John Farrington, Giles Henley, Natasha Grist and Anna Locke

This paper summarises the current state of thinking on agricultural policies for development.

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Responding to a changing climate: Exploring how disaster risk reduction, social protection and livelihoods approaches promote features of adaptive capacity

Publication - Discussion papers - 26 August 2010

ODI Working Papers 319

Lindsey Jones, Susanne Jaspars, Sara Pavanello, Eva Ludi, Rachel Slater, Alex Arnall, Natasha Grist and Sobona Mtisi

This paper reviews how aspects of disaster risk reduction, social protection and livelihoods approaches may act in contributing to the various features of adaptive capacity in the context of climate change.

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Copenhagen: No pro-poor agriculture? No thanks

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 17 December 2009

There has been a growing focus on climate change across the global agricultural community in the run up to the Copenhagen conference. There have been major summits (e.g. the High-Level Expert Forum, the World Food Summit) and agricultural institutions have produced reports on this issue (e.g. IFPRI, FAO). This year’s COP15 summit has seen the biggest ever gathering around the topic, the Agriculture and Rural Development day, complemented by well-attended side events.

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15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, Copenhagen

Event - International summit - 6 December 2009 - 4 January 2010

meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Copenhagen, will attempt to deliver a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol. The outcome of the meeting will have a huge impact on the world’s poor and their struggle to secure a decent and sustainable future. This has engaged the energies of ODI researchers across the range of climate change issues to be debated: from mitigation and low carbon growth, through adaptation strategies and plans, to the financing of such actions and the role of the international community in helping developing countries respond to the unprecedented challenge of climate change.

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