Colin Korst

Colin Korst is a 2020 Master of Environmental Science student at the Yale School of the Environment.  Previously, he served as an agricultural extension agent with Peace Corps in Cameroon and more recently worked on agricultural innovation with a local  NGO in Guinea-Conakry. Colin also has experience as a farmhand on a commercial vegetable farm in Illinois and currently is an agroforester-in-residence at the Yale Farm. He is collaborating with smallholder farmers in Ghana to explore how agrarian futures are contested and negotiated in the face of state and corporate efforts to modernize agricultural practice.