Sarah Graf
Sarah Graf, M.A.
Research associate
Sarah Graf is a research associate at the Chair of Social Transformation and Agriculture at the University of Hohenheim. She holds a master’s degree in development studies and a bachelor's degree in Agricultural Sciences. Her research focuses on inequality, especially class and gender relations in West African agriculture. Her dissertation project advances concepts and methods for researching class structures using social network analysis and applies these in West African tree crop regions
- Agrarian class relations
- Farming systems
- Quantifying exploitation
| Since 07/2024 | Research associate, Department Societal Transition and Agriculture, University of Hohenheim |
| Since 2020 | Doctoral candidate at University of Hohenheim, topic: Land, Labor and Capital: Class Relations in West African Farming Systems |
| 2020 | Consultant for Disaster Risk Reduction and Impact Assessment, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) |
| 2019 - 2020 | Intern, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) |
| 2018 - 2019 | Master programme in Development Studies, SOAS University of London, United Kingdom |
| 2018 | Intern, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) for Monitoring and Evaluation (Grüne Innovationszentren) |
| 2014 - 2018 | Bachelor programme in Agricultural Science, University of Hohenheim |
| 2012 - 2014 | Farm hand at various pastoral farms in Australie |
| Graf, S., Chagunda, M. (2024). From the herd’s perspective: Rethinking livestock classification systems. Hohenheim Working Papers on Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development. 024-2024. University of Hohenheim. |
| Kariuki, J., Yameogo, V., Graf, S., Laffoon, B., Grau, J., Birner, R., Daum, T., Chagunda, M., Mulinge, W., Lubungu, M. (2024). Redefining livestock systems for sustainable transitions in Africa. Hohenheim Working Papers on Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development. 021-2024. University of Hohenheim |
| Graf, S.L. and Oya, C., 2021. Is the system of rice intensification (SRI) pro poor? Labour, class and technological change in West Africa. Agricultural Systems. 193 |
| Birner, R., Nikola B., Bosch, C., Daum, T., Graf, S., Güttler, D., Heni, J., Kariuki J., Katusiimea R., Seidel, A., Senon, Z.N., Woode, G., 2021. ‘We would rather die from Covid-19 than from hunger’ - Exploring lockdown stringencies in five African countries. Global Food Security. 31 |
| Alekseeva N., Baas S., Markova G., Kanamaru H., Toepper J., Makie Yoshida, Mariko Fujisawa, Olga Buto, Sarah Graf, Cecilia Jones and Elisa Di Stefano. 2021. Chapter VII: Extreme exposure: a clearer picture of agriculture in the climate crisis. In: FAO. 2021. The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security: 2021. Rome. |
WMO, 2020. WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2019. World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. (Contributor on climate related risks and impacts) |
| Markova, G. and Graf S., 2020. Introduction to FAO’s damage and loss assessment methodology. FAO e-learning Academy. Rome |
Markova, G. and Graf S., 2020. Using FAO methodology to compute damage and loss. FAO e-learning Academy. Rome |
| 15.09.2023 | “Exploring the interrelated dynamics of land tenure, cropping systems and biodiversity through field types”. Presentation in the Bio-Geosphere Africa (BioGARD) Conference 2023. Hohenheim, 14-15th September 2023 |
| 08.09.2023 | “Class structures as social networks of surplus transfers: A new analytical framework to research rural class relations in land, labour and capital markets.” Presentation at the IIPPE Conference 2023. Madrid 6-8th September 2023 |
| 14.09.2021: | “Class relations in West African agrarian systems: Systematic literature analysis Graf.” Presentation at the IIPPE Annual Conference - 'The Pandemic and the Future of Capitalism'. Online, 12-19th September 2021 |
