Person

Ian Scoones

Ian Scoones

Professorial Fellow

Email

i.scoones@ids.ac.uk

Telephone

+44 (0)1273 915679

Website

http://ianscoones.net/

Ian Scoones is a professor in the Resource Politics and Environmental Change cluster. He was co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre at Sussex (2006-21) and the principal investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant project, PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience: Lessons From the Margins, (2018-2023).

An ecologist by original training, he works on the interface between science and policy, focusing on the politics of knowledge in the context of agrarian and environmental change, especially in southern Africa. His long-term research on land, agricultural and livelihoods in Zimbabwe is covered in his regular blog, Zimbabweland. His most recent book is Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World published by Polity Books in 2024.

Academic links

Google Scholar
http://goo.gl/1ltnaj
ORCID ID
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8547-4464
Research Gate
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ian_Scoones

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Research

Project

Zimbabwe’s Land Reform After 25 Years

What have been the consequences of Zimbabwe’s land reform since 2000? This study explores changes in livelihoods, rural economies, politics and environments over 25 years.

Project

Land Redistribution Initiative: Addressing Inequality in the 21st Century

The Redistributive Land Reform Initiative draws on studies from eight countries from four continents and reflects on lessons from experiences where redistributive land reform persisted in the neoliberal era. The results will feed into the 2026 International Conference on Agrarian Reform and...

Programme

Future Agricultures Consortium

Future Agricultures is a network of researchers on agriculture and food policy in Africa, formed of more than 100 people working in 12 countries across Africa and in Europe.

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Opinions

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Publications

Journal

Environmental Change: Development Challenges Revisited

IDS Bulletin 56.1A

The establishment of the IDS Environment Group in 1990 created a line of research linked to policy that has remained central to the Institute ever since. In highlighting a series of IDS Bulletin issues, led by IDS researchers, this archive issue tracks the development of this work over the...

5 February 2025

Book

Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World

Uncertainties are everywhere. Whether it’s climate change, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks or new technologies, we don’t know what the future will hold. For many contemporary challenges, navigating uncertainty – where we cannot predict what may happen – is essential and, as the...

Ian Scoones
Ian Scoones

1 August 2024

Journal Article

Economics for an Uncertain World

Uncertainty, where we do not know the likelihood of future events, dominates our world. This article examines how economics as a profession and discipline can address uncertainty. From Frank Knight to John Maynard Keynes to Friedrich von Hayek to George Shackle, economics has highlighted the...

Ian Scoones
Ian Scoones

23 October 2023

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Ian Scoones’s recent work

Featured Project

PASTRES: Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience

PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience: Global Lessons from the Margins) is a research project which aims to learn from the ways that pastoralists respond to uncertainty, applying such 'lessons from the margins' to global challenges.

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