By STEPS Centre and Institute of Development Studies researchers To mark World Water Day 2007, IDS researchers set out what they believe are the five top priorities that need to be addressed if we are to cope with water scarcity. Investing in rainfed agriculture: Upgrading rainfed areas has high potential both for food production and…
WORLD WATER DAY 2007: TOP FIVE PRIORITIES
WORLD WATER DAY 2007: SPEND LESS TO ACHIEVE MORE
By ROBERT CHAMBERS, research associate, Institute of Development Studies Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is a radical participatory approach in which mainly rural communities are facilitated to analyse their practice of open defaecation and its effects and through disgust and self-respect decide to take action to stop it. Typically this takes a matter of weeks…
GRASSROOTS TO GLOBAL – THE HONEY BEE NETWORK
Local communities across the developing world facing technological or institutional problems deal with them in different ways. Often, they simply learn to live with them. But sometimes they develop successful solutions, which work well but are not incorporated into institutional research programmes. Anil Gupta, professor at the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad and founder…
CLIMATE CHANGE & THE APPLIANCE OF SCIENCE
Politicians and the public look to scientists to explain the causes of climate change and whether it , can be tackled – and they are queuing up to deliver. But, in an article for Society Guardian, Mike Hulme asks if we are being given the whole picture. Hulme, a professor in the school of environmental…
AVIAN FLU: BBC RADIO HIGHLIGHTS STEPS ISSUES
By IAN SCOONES, STEPS Centre co-directorScientists in Egypt are examining the possibility that the H5N1 Avian flu virus could be changing into a deadlier strain. There is a fear the virus will cross the species barrier causing a pandemic which will disrupt world economies and claim lives on an unprecedented scale. Dr Zuhair Hallaj, director…