Olivia Oldham-Dorrington
Thesis title: The role of property in agroecological transformations
Veterinary Medicine by Distance
Year of study: 2
- Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems
Contact details
- Email: olivia.oldham@ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Background
Olivia is a PhD researcher at the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems. Her research investigates the links between property relations and agroecological transformations, with a focus on community land ownership and legal strategies for transforming property relations.
She has published on the regulation of genetic modification, and indigenous food sovereignty and land sovereignty in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Qualifications
Olivia holds a Master of Science in Nature, Society and Environmental Governance from the University of Oxford. She also holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and a Bachelor of Arts in Development Studies and International Relations from Victoria University of Wellington.
Research summary
Olivia is interested in the ways in which land ownership and governance relations affect food system design and change. Her doctoral research explores several questions in this area, including:
- The compatibility of private ownership with agroecological transformation
- The nature of engagement of agroecological movements with ideas of ownership and property
- The extent to which community land ownership and governance can help to move beyond the limitations of existing property relations
- The nature and efficacy of different legal strategies for transforming property relations
She is the lead author of Land-based resistance: Enacting Indigenous self-determination and kai sovereignty in Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene.