Christie Peacock is an animal scientist and has worked in applied research on traditional livestock systems in Africa and South East Asia specialising in goat production, and has advised on the DFID’s Livestock Research Programme.

Dr Christie Peacock is the Chief Executive of the development agency FARM-Africa, which is involved in practical research and development projects in Eastern Africa. She is a professional animal scientist and carried out doctoral research in Kenya on traditional Maasai livestock production systems. She has worked for the Australian government (CSIRO) as adviser to the Indonesian government livestock research system before running a masters course in agricultural systems at the regional post-graduate institute, the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. On joining FARM-Africa she ran a goat development project in Ethiopia, leading to the publication of “Improving Goat Production in the Tropics" (ISBN 0-85598-269-1). In the UK, Dr Peacock is a member of the Programme Advisory Committee of the Department for International Development's Livestock Research Programme, the editorial board of ‘Inside Agriculture’, and a founding member of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Agriculture and Food for Development and GALVmed. Dr Peacock is a Board member of the International Goat Association and on the advisory Board of Natural Resources Institute. Dr Peacock has also recently become a fellow of the Institute of Biology.

FARM-Africa
FARM-Africa (Food and Agricultural Research Management) is an international non- governmental organisation that aims to reduce poverty through developing innovative approaches to natural resource management in Africa. Through our projects in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda we work in partnership with marginal small-scale farmers and herders to improve the ways in which they farm their land. Working with a wide range of rural communities, we concentrate on three priority areas – Pastoral Development, Community Forest Management and Smallholder Development and Land Reform. With the international headquarters based in London, UK, FARM-Africa has country offices in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Sudan and Tanzania.