Camilla Toulmin is a environmental economist and Professor in Practice at the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University. She was director of the International Institute for Environment and Development until 2016 and has been carrying out research in the same village in Mali for 35 years.

  • How a new law in Mali is securing villagers' rights to land

    A recently passed agricultural land law gives rural communities in Mali new rights to their traditional lands. On a recent research trip to Mali, Professor Camilla Toulmin interviewed Professor Moussa Djire, rector of the University of Bamako Sciences Politiques et Juridiques about this historic law.