Patricia Dodd Racher is a geographer who since 1988 has worked as a research analyst and writer for Dodd Racher & Partners.  Before that she spent almost two decades with Reed Business Publishing, now part of Reed Elsevier. She was a reporter and feature writer with Farmers Weekly, and an editor with British Farmer & Stockbreeder.

Patricia graduated from the London School of Economics.  Subsequent qualifications include a Masters degree from the Open University and a Doctorate from Manchester Metropolitan University.  She wrote ‘Empty Plates Tomorrow’, a book published in 2007, about serious challenges to future food production.

Dodd Racher & Partners provide IT services including web development, and research services including economic analysis and forecasting.