Helen's experience includes agriculture, livestock, forestry and fisheries projects and her focus has been on smallholders and tenants/sharecroppers, those facing the greatest difficulties in the current environment dominated by neoliberalism. She has a particular interest in water management, access to land and other resources, and the worsening conditions faced by those most affected [and least responsible for] global warming.
Helen was an early fellow at the TNI in 1974-6. She was the Sir William Luce Fellow at Durham University in 2016, an associate researcher at London University’s SOAS from 2016 to 2022 and is currently a visiting fellow at the European Council for Foreign Relations. She edited the Journal of the British-Yemeni Society for eight years and contributes regularly to Jacobin, Open Democracy, Arab Digest, and Orient XXI. She is currently working on a critical analysis of Saudi Arabia’s development in the past century
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