Meghan Bailey is a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford and a researcher for the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). She has been working across sub-Saharan Africa for the past eight years. Most recently, she has been studying undernutrition and climate variability in Ghana’s Upper West District, and co-developing community adaptation plans for communities living within Niumi National Park in the Gambia. She has completed research projects on drought management and climate variability in Karamoja, Uganda as a Red Cross Young Humanitarian Scholar and has been managing a coastal resilience program in Kenya since 2008. She is interested in all forms of social differentiation and how these points shape the lived experience of individuals in marginal environments.