Emma Blackmore

Emma has research experience in tea, coffee, dairy and horticulture, conducting qualitative and quantitative research, managing research teams, conducting data analysis and reporting. She has extensive primary research experience in Eastern and Southern Africa, including in Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Tanzania, and Ghana. Emma has conducted baseline and endline evaluations for a number of major development organisations, including Rainforest Alliance, Solidaridad, SNV and IDH. As well as working with the Ankers to set a new Living Wage benchmark for Kericho, Kenya, she has modelled and measured the impact of payment of higher wages to close a living wage gap on two coffee farms in Kenya for Rainforest Alliance. She is very interested in food systems, and how informal sectors – for example in dairy and horticulture – operate to support livelihoods and feed low-income consumers. Emma has a BSc in Geography from the University of Bristol and an MSc in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies.