This article explores the livelihood challenges and opportunities of young people following Zimbabwe’s land reform in 2000. The article explores the life courses of a cohort of men and women, all children of land reform settlers, in two contrasting smallholder land reform sites.
Young people and land in Zimbabwe: livelihood challenges after land reform
Beyond Technical Fixes: climate solutions and the great derangement
Nightingale, A.J., Eriksen, S., Taylor, M., Forsyth, T., Pelling, M., Newsham, A., Boyd, E., Brown, K., Harvey, B., Jones, L., Kerr, R.B., Mehta, L., Naess, L.O., Ockwell, D., Scoones, I.,…
The Pathway toward a Net-Zero-Emissions Future
One Earth Volume 1, ISSUE 1, P18-20 The UK government recently committed to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Ian Scoones comments alongside other UK-based experts to reflect upon this…
Narratives of scarcity: Framing the global land rush
Geoforum Volume 101, May 2019, Pages 231-241 Global resource scarcity has become a central policy concern, with predictions of rising populations, natural resource depletion and hunger. The narratives of scarcity…
Irrigating Zimbabwe After Land Reform: The Potential of Farmer-Led Systems
Scoones. I., Murimbarimba. F. and Mahenehene. J. (2019) ‘Irrigating Zimbabwe after Land Reform: The Potential of Farmer-Led Systems.’, Water Alternatives, 12.1 Farmer-led irrigation is far more extensive in Zimbabwe than…
The new politics and geographies of scarcity
Scarcity is a dangerous idea and has long been a totalising discourse in resource politics and mainstream economics. A large body of work has critiqued the naturalisation of scarcity in…
Low-carbon China: Emerging phenomena and implications for innovation governance
This paper is an introduction to the special section of the journal Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (EIST). The special issue investigates emerging phenomena associated with low carbon transitions in…
Narratives and Pathways towards an Ecological Civilization in Contemporary China
This journal article by Sam Geall (chinadialogue.net, University of Sussex, Chatham House) and Adrian Ely (SPRU/STEPS) draws on theoretical insights from the pathways approach to explore the ways in which dominant policy narratives in…
Transformative innovation in peri-urban Asia
This paper draws on two case studies from India and China to discuss how and why rapidly urbanizing contexts are particularly challenging for transformative innovation but are also critical sustainability…
Uncertainty in Climate Science: Extreme Weather Events in India
In May 2018, multiple extreme weather events claimed scores of lives, damaged property and brought public life to a standstill in parts of India. In the aftermath of these events,…