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Jessica Barnes
www.columbia.edu/~jeb2118

Jessica Barnes is a sixth-year candidate in the PhD program in Sustainable Development. The focus of her research is on water management in Egypt's agricultural sector. Drawing on a year of ethnographic fieldwork in Egypt, her research traces the linkages between farmers' everyday practices of water use and regional, national, and international policy-making on water resources management. Jessica holds a Master's in Environmental Management from Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a B.A. in Geography from Oxford University.