Project dates: 2018-2022 Follow TAPESTRY on Twitter: @Tapestry_T2S The TAPESTRY research project explores how transformation may arise ‘from below’ in marginal environments with high levels of uncertainty. We look at…
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Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI)
New exclusionary politics are generating deepening inequalities, jobless ‘growth’, climate chaos, and social division. The Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI) is focused on the social and political processes in rural…
Zimbabweland: Zimbabwe’s Land Reform
This long-running project aims to critically examine debates about land reform in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe’s land reform since 2000 has been intensely controversial. Yet the debate about what happened, where and…
Market-based mangrove afforestation and reforestation in Kenya and India
Dates: April 2016-April 2017 Mangroves are valued by different people in diverse ways – as places to fish, sources of fodder, protection against storms or tides, sites of tourism, or…
Governing the Land-Water-Environment Nexus in Southern Africa
In southern Africa, the intersection of land, water and environment is central to a range of challenges for policymakers, businesses and local people. This project studies the different ways in…
Uncertainty from below
How do people deal with uncertainty about climate, disease or natural disasters like floods? This project aimed to compare and contrast the views of people who study uncertainty with the perspectives…
Opening Up Natural Resource-Based Industries for Innovation: Exploring New Pathways for Development in Latin America
Description: Natural Resource industries, such as agriculture and mining, are generally considered to make little contribution to development objectives due in part to the diffusion within these industries of practices and…
Flows and Practices: The politics of integrated water resources management (IWRM) in Africa
Project dates: 2012 – 2014 Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has emerged as a key approach in the water sector in the past decade. However, IWRM has not produced the…
Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI)
LDPI aims to provide in-depth and systematic enquiry into the ‘global land grab’ in order to have deeper, meaningful and productive debates around its causes and implications.
Political ecologies of carbon in Africa
This project examines the power, politics and perceptions of carbon in Africa as new schemes are planned and put into action.