Walking through the international development department in Oxford is a rather strange affair. It’s bizarre to think that so many of these people would eventually become some organiser or officer for a big development NGO/government/corporation. It’s even stranger when you think that so many of them come from a strong background in economics and see the world as homogenous mathematical models. I guess that’s my social anthropological bias, where everything economic is so much more complex and subjective… (more…)

The mass famine and drought in East Africa has affected me in ways that have truly made me think about what the whole climate change problem is all about. I suppose thinking about it and really writing it down can be difficult to transfer, so I apologise if much of this fails to make any sense. (more…)