Timothy Adams

Dr Timothy Adams is a human geographer and development studies scholar working on land governance, collective tenure and agrarian change in sub-Saharan Africa. His research examines how land institutions shape agricultural investment, smallholder commercialisation, gender relations and rural development. He develops the concepts of Investment-Driven Collective Tenure (IDCT) and Formalised Arrangements of Collective Tenure (FACT) to analyse how rural communities build collective institutions that reconcile customary authority, statutory recognition, commercial investment and local control over land and resources. His empirical work draws mainly on cases from sub-Saharan Africa including, Malawi, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Zambia and Morocco