Dr. Siera Vercillo

Contact Information

Affiliations

University of Waterloo

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (Environment)
  • Academic Coordinator

Research Interests

Sustainable Development Goals:
  • SDG 1 No poverty
  • SDG 3 Good health and well-being
  • SDG 5 Gender equality
  • SDG 10 Reduced inequalities
  • SDG 11 Sustainable cities and communities
  • SDG 15 Life on land
  • SDG 16 Peace, justice and strong institutions
Sectors:
  • Agricultural policy
  • Agriculture
  • Aid
  • Aid effectiveness
  • Capacity building
  • Climate change
  • Colonialism
  • Community development
  • Critical studies
  • Data
  • Decentralization
  • Democratic participation
  • Empowerment
  • Feminism
  • Food security
  • Food sovereignty
  • Gender
  • Gender equality
  • Globalization
  • Inclusion
  • Inequality
  • Knowledge and learning
  • Land grabbing
  • Livelihood
  • Migration
  • Nutrition
  • Official development assistance
  • Participation
  • Policy analysis
  • Political economy
  • Postcolonialism
  • Poverty reduction
  • Power
  • Rural development
  • Social change
  • Women's rights
Demographics:
  • Farmers/farm workers/agrarian populations
  • Local populations
  • Minorities
  • Peasants
  • Rural populations
  • Women
  • Youth
Development Actors:
  • Bilateral donors
  • Cooperatives
  • Government institutions (bilateral)
  • Least-developed countries
  • Low-income countries
  • Non-governmental organizations
Research Methods:
  • Action-research
  • Case studies
  • Comparative Analysis
  • Discourse analysis
  • Grounded-theory
  • Mixed-methods
  • Oral History
  • Participatory approach
  • Practical Research
  • Qualitative
  • Regression analysis
  • Theoretical Research
  • Theory of change
Countries:
  • Ghana
Subregion:
  • Central Africa
  • East Africa
  • Southern Africa
  • West Africa
Regions:
  • Sub-Saharan Africa