Esra Oney is a PhD candidate in the Politics Department at York University, specializing in international relations and women and politics. She is a research associate at the Center for Feminist Research at York University and the Center for African Studies at the University of Eduardo Mondlane. She holds an MA in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from Sabanci University. Since 2019, she has been an active member of the Mediterranean Women Mediators Network's Turkey Antenna. Her research interests lie at the intersection of critical development studies, with a focus on agrarian politics, critical perspectives on big data and technology in agriculture and humanitarian aid, smallholder rural livelihoods, food systems, and food sovereignty movements in sub-Saharan Africa. Her PhD dissertation explores the new frontiers of agrarian extractivism in Mozambique, examining how mega-investment agrifood projects and the use of innovation accelerators uphold extractive practices and relationships to the land, drawing parallels with colonial extractivism. It also investigates the implications of policy narratives surrounding rural development innovations and their effects on food sovereignty, justice, and resistance movements through collaborative engagement with small-scale farmers and farmers' associations. She co-organized a workshop in Liberia on  "Sexual and Gender-Based Reparations as Enactment of Decolonial Justice" as part of an SSHRC-funded project. She continues to work on developing a framework for peacebuilding processes and reparations grounded in the idea of gendered agrarian justice.