Dr. Matthew Sommerville is Chief of Party, USAID Tenure and Global Climate Change. Based in Zambia, Dr. Sommerville leads a multi-country project for USAID focusing on the interactions between strengthening land and resource tenure and the success of climate change mitigation and adaptation goals. He holds a PhD on the behavioural economics of payment for ecosystem services and is a Senior Associate with Tetra Tech.
Content by this Author
blog posts
- From the Ground Up: Participatory Rights Documentation for Healthy Landscapes
- Ask the Expert: An Interview with Matt Sommerville, Tenure and Global Climate Change – Global
- How Mobile Applications are Documenting Property Rights in Zambia
- Interactive MOOC Session with Zambian Chieftainess Mkanda
research & publications
- Documenting Customary Resource Rights Reconciling State and Customary Records for Land-Use Planning: Sandwe Chiefdom, Zambia
- Examining the Real Costs of Community-led Rights Documentation from USAID’s Experience in Burma and Zambia
- Identifying Key Factors for Successful Community Rights Documentation from USAID’s Multi-Country Experiences in Zambia, Vietnam, Paraguay, Ghana, and Burma
- Land and Tree Tenure Innovations for Financing Smallholder Cocoa Rehabilitation in Ghana
- Land Documentation in Zambia: A Comparison of Approaches and Relevance for the National Land Titling Program
- Leveraging Big Data to Promote Sustainable Supply Chains: The Case of Paraguay’s Beef Sector
- Zambia’s National Land Titling Programme – Challenges and Opportunities