The Market Corner: Fresh Perspectives for Development Leaders (Marketlinks Blog Series on Systems Thinking)

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Between October 2021 and May 2022, Canopy’s Managing Partner Holly Lard Krueger authored a series of bi-monthly blogs for Marketlinks. This series, called The Market Corner, explored the application of systems thinking in international development covering a variety of thematic sectors.

 

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Andrew Panton

Senior Consultant

I am committed to improving human livelihoods and resilience in balance with nature. At the Canopy Lab, I provide research and advisory support to projects working on biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation and resilience, nature-based solutions, sustainable tourism, and market systems development. Outside work, I’m a keen guitarist, cyclist and bookworm, with a love for food, travelling and learning languages.

JESSICA RUST-SMITH

Senior Consultant

I work across markets, business and supply chains, impact investing, agriculture, and women’s economic empowerment. I am an experienced monitoring, evaluation, research and learning consultant and project manager with expertise in the use of mixed methods, theory-based approaches and data collection and analysis. I have been working in M&E for market systems development for 10 years now, and going strong.