My research challenges assumptions about participatory research and farmers' engagement, revealing role and impact of farmers' knowledge in the process. I show that while many agricultural studies claim to be participatory, there is an uneven attention to crops and regions, lack of systematic sex disaggregation and inconsistent research design and data collection practices. Furthermore, I find that centralized and on-farm participatory approaches affect farmers' livelihoods differently and that farmers' knowledge (and how it is shared in the community) affects farmers' preferences and technology adoption with non linear dynamics. 

Methodologically, I am familiar with intra-household sampling designs, quasi-experimental and randomized-control-trial impact designs, agent-based modeling, ex-ante frameworks and large national datasets. Many of the studies I co-authored and led include scholars in the field of life sciences (e.g., soil sciences and biology) and social sciences (e.g., gender in agriculture, anthropologist and science-technology-studies scholars). I regularly co-author with scholars based in national agricultural research institutes and extension offices.

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