ADRIAN ELY, STEPS Centre member reports with our partners professor Ding Shijun and Dr Chen Chuanbo on the challenges of conducting research in China’s changing rural areas In rural transitional…
CHINA RURAL REFORMS: WHAT IS A HOUSEHOLD?
ANOTHER WORLD IS INEVITABLE?
By ADRIAN ELY, STEPS Centre member, reports from the Asia-Europe People’s Forum in Beijing Thirty years ago, the idea that the Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF) would be held in China…
RURAL REFORM IN CHINA: SETTING FARMERS FREE?
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member On the day that the UK has nationalised some of its biggest banking institutions, China has announced bold new proposals to free up the…
MARIE JAHODA LECTURE: PROFESSOR JOHN BEDDINGTON
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member The UK government’s chef scientific advisor, Professor John Beddington was here at Sussex University last night to deliver the 12th Marie Jahoda Annual Lecture,…
STEPS SYMPOSIUM 08: REFRAMING RESILIENCE
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member The annual STEPS Centre Symposium is underway here in Sussex with 70 delegates gathered to debate this year’s theme, Reframing Resilience. Despite the slightly…
STEPS SEMINAR: BIOFUELS, CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member For presentation, podcast and photos from this event see the STEPS Seminars page: During the past few years, bio-energy and especially liquid biofuels have…
GM FOOD: SAFETY, SECURITY AND SOVEREIGNTY
STEPS member Adrian Ely has written an article on the regulation of genetically modified foods for “Food Ethics”, the magazine of the Food Ethics Council. Drawing on and extending upon…
WORLD WATER WEEK: SANITATION SCANDAL
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member Sanitation was dubbed “one of the biggest scandals of all time” by the UN’s water chief this week as World Water Week got underway…
WORLD WATER WEEK
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member At a time when billions of people live without sustainable access to safe drinking water or suffer ill health due to poor sanitation, when…
ANOTHER SIDE TO CHINA’S OLYMPIC DREAM
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member The eyes of the world are focussed firmly on China as the Olympic Games get into full swing. A television audience of a…