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22 March 2017
World Water Day: we need to talk about inequality as well as waste
On World Water Day, there is an urgent call for the global community to stop water waste and focus efforts on improving water quality. While much of the debate on water quality has been very technical, IDS and the ESRC STEPS Centre have tried to inject social science perspectives and call for focus on the politics of access, use and control of resources.
14 March 2017
Pathways to Sustainable Agriculture
Published by: Routledge
This free book highlights some of the major findings that have emerged over the last decade of the STEPS Centre’s research on sustainable agriculture.
‘Seeing’ Conflict at the Margins in Kenya and Madagascar
In a context of unprecedented investment in natural resource developments, this project bridges the social sciences, the humanities and community-based participatory research to ask how different ‘communities’ of actors ‘see’ and experience resource conflicts in Kenya and Madagascar. We use social science alongside a variety of participatory multimedia methods to open up conflict research to more diverse framings and voices, which can offer new insights on the drivers of resource conflict and pathways to peace.
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Transforming Governance In Telecoupled Food Systems
Published by: STEPS Centre
In this paper we analyse how new actors, interests, and resources become salient to food system governance and how the domain of food system governance transforms as a result.
1 January 2017
What Can Promote Access to Land for Agroecological Farming in the UK? Findings from Participatory Research and Deliberation as part of the Transitions to Agroecological Food Systems Project
Published by: IDS
Access to land has long been a key barrier to new entrants to farming and has become more difficult in the last decade or so. In order to address these land access challenges, the panel discussed the potentials of both (a) working within the existing system (i.e. navigating existing policies, regulations and institutions), and (b) working to change the system (i.e. revising or introducing new policies, regulations and institutions).
1 January 2017
What Can Promote Access to Land for Agroecological Farming in the UK? Findings from Participatory Research and Deliberation as part of the Transitions to Agroecological Food Systems Project
Published by: IDS
Access to land has long been a key barrier to new entrants to farming and has become more difficult in the last decade or so. In order to address these land access challenges, the panel discussed the potentials of both (a) working within the existing system (i.e. navigating existing policies, regulations and institutions), and (b) working to change the system (i.e. revising or introducing new policies, regulations and institutions).
1 January 2017
The Political Economy for Low-carbon Energy Transition in China: Towards a New Policy Paradigm?
Published by: Taylor & Francis Online
China has become the leading country to develop wind and solar energy industries. By presenting the institutional arrangement and interest constellations of China’s regulatory system of renewable energy sectors, this paper argues that the reasons for China’s swift expansion of wind and solar energy investment go beyond the notion of a state-led model.