His primary research interests lie at the intersection of political economy and ecological economics. His recent work has examined the socio-economic and environmental dimensions of the growth of organic farming in the EU, as well as the inverse relationship between farm size and productivity in rural Kenya (joint work with Mwangi wa Githinji and Andrew Barenberg). His research has appeared in the Review for Radical Political Economics, and he was recently awarded the William R. Waters Research Grant by the Association for Social Economics for the project "How Resilient is 'Green'? Organic Farmers in the Crisis of European Capitalism". He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.