Dr Barron is a research fellow in agriculture and water management at SEI and affiliated to Stockholm Resilience Centre. Her research is focussed on agriculture, water management and ecosystem servcies in the field to meso-scale landscapes for food production, livelihood improvements and agro-ecosystems sustainability. Dr. Barron is a theme co-leader of Managing Environmental Systems.

Dr Barron is now working on research in integrated resource management strategies actively incorporating on and off-farm water uses in field to meso-scale watershed. Of particular interest are the opportunities to enable desirable transformations of livelihoods and production landscapes for sustainable development, in view of uncertainty and complexity of global and local change. The research activities are being undertaken in several project partnerships, currently focussing on sites in Niger, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Zambia and Indiia. Through the CGIAR Challenge Programme Water and Food, she leads the projects Volta V1 and Limpopo L1 'Targeting and scaling out ' with partners (2010-2013).

Dr Barron has more than 15 years of experience with water and agricultural related research and development in sub-Sahara Africa, SE Asia and Australia. She has also several years of experience in higher education and learning support activities both in Sweden and in the African context. She has contributed to the CGIAR initiative "Comprehensive assessment of water for agriculture", Global Assessment Of Energy (GEA) and made contributions towards the Swedish Environmental Advisory Council on future fresh water and land requirements for food, and bioenergy.

She holds a Ph.D. in Natural Resource Management, Stockholm University, and an M.Sc. in Agricultural Engineering, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden. She regularly provide expertise to various global and national bodies in research and development, including research councils, FAO, and UNEP. Through research work, Dr Barron supervises and mentors post-docs, PhDs and MSc MRes at various universities. Dr Barron is author/co-author on 25 peer reviewed papers and book chapters, as well as a number of policy documents.

Publications

• Assessing impacts of agricultural water interventions in the Kothapally watershed, Southern India (Journal article - 2012)

• Releasing the Pressure: Water Resource Efficiencies and Gains for Ecosystem Services (Report - 2012)

• Releasing the Pressure: Water Resource Efficiencies and Gains for Ecosystem Services (Policy brief) (Policy brief - 2012)

• Simulated water resource impacts and livelihood implications of stakeholder-developed scenarios in the Jaldhaka Basin, India (Journal article - 2012)

• AWM Investments: Monitoring and Evaluation of Social, Environmental, and Economic Impacts (Policy brief - 2012)

• Evolution of Agricultural Water Management in Rainfed Crop-Livestock Systems of the Volta Basin (Working paper - 2012)

• A review of the recent literature on water harvesting in Sub-Saharan Africa (Book chapter - 2012)

• Energy and Environment (Book chapter - 2012)

• Soils as a water resource: some thoughts on managing soils for productive landscapes meeting development challenges (Journal article - 2012)

• Up-scaling potential impacts on water flows from agricultural water interventions: opportunities and trade-offs in the Osman Sagar catchment, Musi sub-basin, India (Journal article - 2012)

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Projects

• Raising awareness of water-poverty linkages for development in the African context

  
  

• AgWater Solutions dialogue

  
  

• CPWF L1 - Targetting and Out-scaling in the Limpopo Basin

  
  

• Challenge Programme on Water and Food (CPWF) V1 - Targeting and Scaling Out in the Volta Basin

  
  

• Transformation and shifts in productive landscapes for livelihood improvements in the Sahel: building a partnership in research

  
  

• Rainwater harvesting, ecosystems and livelihoods: a synthesis for UNEP

  
  

• AgWater Solutions Project

  
  

• Formas Centre of Excellence on Resilience and Sustainable Development: Integrated Research on Social-ecological Systems

  
  

• Green Blue Water Initiative (GBI)

  
  

• Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture