Mrs Loveness MGALAMADZI
About Mrs Loveness MGALAMADZI
Loveness Msofi Mgalamadzi is a Malawian agrarian studies scholar born on 25th April 1986. Her research interests span across political economy of agrarian and rural transformation, gender and social differentiation, social reproduction, agricultural extension and education, climate change and livelihoods analysis. She holds a PhD in Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies from the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Loveness holds an MSc degree in Agribusiness Management obtained in 2012 from National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (NPUST) in Taiwan. She also holds a BSc. Degree in Agricultural Extension obtained in 2008 from Bunda College of Agriculture. Loveness is a researcher and academic at Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) in the Extension Department. She worked with the Ministry of agriculture from 2009-2014 as a women’s programmes officer responsible for gender mainstreaming in Agriculture. Loveness has been involved in a number of research studies in Malawi. She is currently the country lead for multi-country research on governance of climate change induced displacement (2023-2025). Loveness is also a country researcher for a project on gender responsive land governance in Africa under UNECA. She was part of a team of researchers on the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) which is under the Future Agricultures Consortium. Her role was to analyse gender and social differences in agricultural commercialisation. She was an African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) fellow from 2013-2015. Loveness is an upcoming researcher who has published in international journals including Springer’s CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, and Agrekon, and she has produced several working papers published under Institute of Development Studies (IDS), and Future Agricultures Consortium. She is also a reviewer for an international journal, South African Journal of Agricultural Extension (SAJAE). She is also an internal examiner for postgraduate students at LUANAR, and she supervises postgraduate students.
Research Interest for: Mrs Loveness MGALAMADZI
LAND
I research on land issues from a Political Economy lenses. my past projects have focused on land ownership and currently my research is on land markets and how these alter social relations in agrarian communities. I have also look at the impact of agrarian transformation such as commercialisation on land commodification, consolidation and expropriation.
Gender
My focus is on social differentiation based on gender, the gendered nature of agrarian transformation and processes, gender inequalities including that of the youth. I also focus on social reproduction aspects. I use feminist and intersectionality theoretical lenses to research gender.
climate change
I also take a political economy and political ecology lenses to understand the differentiated impacts of climate change. My current research is on understanding governance of climate induced displacement and also on carbon trading in the name of decarbonisation from a just transition perspective.
Livelihoods
I research on livelihoods using sustainable livelihoods approaches from a political economy perspective. Understanding livelihood changes and trajectories from different agrarian activities.