As a geographer, Eva focuses specially on the socio-economic dimensions of sustainable rural development and sustainable natural resource management. She has done extensive research on sustainable soil and land management in the Ethiopian highlands. A recent focus of her research has been on environemtnal conflicts and on reconciling nature protection and rural development in protected areas. Current research interests center around agro-commodities, poverty and environment linkages.

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Briefing Papers and Natural Resource Perspectives
Climate change, agricultural policy and poverty reduction – how much do we know? ODI Natural Resource Perspective 109
Projections suggest that, by the end of the 21st century, climate change could have had substantial impact on agricultural production and thence on the scope for reducing poverty. This paper seeks to trace the likely impacts through changes in the quality of the physical asset base, access to assets, and impacts on grain production and on agricultural growth more generally. At moderate degrees of warming, impacts are likely to be negative in some regions, but positive in others, making it important to understand the possible implications for trade between the regions. The short term impacts of climate change, particularly changes in the frequency and severity of adverse weather events, remain uncertain, but their impacts on many developing countries are likely to be negative. There is likely to be time to make appropriate policy responses to some of the longer-term impacts.
Rachel Slater, Leo Peskett, Eva Ludi and David Brown		September 2007
The Millennium Villages Project – a new approach to ending rural poverty in Africa? ODI Natural Resource Perspectives 101
Proponents of the Millennium Villages Project argue that the complex problems facing rural development in Africa require a ‘big push’ if substantive progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is to be made – and propose the simultaneous introduction of improvements in agriculture, health, transport, energy, technology, telecommunications and internet connectivity, costing US$110 per person per year over 5 years, and funded mainly from aid flows. This paper examines the challenges this initiative faces, and the questions it raises, in its search for ‘quick wins’ to reach the MDGs.
Lidia Cabral, John Farrington and Eva Ludi		August 2006
Working Papers
Climate change and agriculture Donor reports
Series of five outputs produced under a small project for the Renewable Natural Resources and Agriculture Team of the UK Department for International Development (DFID). The objective of the project was to identify the implications of climate change for key areas of DFID's Agricultural Policy and the Renewable Natural Resources and Agriculture (RNRA) Team portfolio and to produce a series of practical outputs to assist the RNRA team in programme implementation and communication. The five papers are: A rough guide to climate change and agriculture Climate change: Implications for DFID's Agricultural policy Climate change, agricultural growth and poverty reduction Climate change and agriculture: Agricultural trade, markets and investment Access to assets: Implications of climate change for land and water policies and management
Leo Peskett, Rachel Slater, Martin Prowse, Nanki Kaur-Mann, Eva Ludi, Christopher Stevens, Lídia Cabral, David Brown, Tom Slaymaker		March 2007

Current projects
Coffee
This Project addresses actors and institutional environments related to the production and trade of agro-commodities at local and national scale and links this to questions of global markets and their determinants. It considers an important agro-commodity – coffee.
Eva Ludi
Future Agricultures
Future Agricultures is a research consortium aiming to answer these questions by stimulating debate and creating policy options for pro-poor agricultural growth.
Lídia Cabral, Steve Wiggins, Kay Sharp, Eva Ludi
Poverty Reduction Strategies and the Rural Productive Sectors
This study for IFAD seeks to identify the root-causes of the identified weaknesses in PRSP processes (including limited engagement of rural stakeholders, disconnects between rural poverty assessments, policy prioritisation and resource allocation) and provide a constructive approach on how to overcome them
Lidia Cabral, Steve Wiggins, Eva Ludi

Completed projects
Climate change impacts on agriculture and adaptation responses
Project to support the UK Department for International Development (DFID) on climate change impacts on agriculture and adaptation responses. A series of five papers were prepared by ODI on the impacts of climate change on agriculture in developing countries.
Rachel Slater, Leo Peskett, Eva Ludi and David Brown		March-May 2007