by Patricia Pérez Belmont, Umbela Transformaciones Sostenibles How can research methods inform and catalyse change towards more sustainable worlds? Last month, the STEPS Centre held an online event to launch…
Waves of challenging research for sustainability
Uncertainty
Our theme for 2019 is ‘Uncertainty’. Everyone is talking about uncertainty – in finance, climate, migration, disease or infrastructure. Decision-makers often treat all kinds of uncertainties as if they are…
Case studies – PATHWAYS Network
The PATHWAYS Network aims to research and intervene in six sites around the world. These are sites which face socio-ecological challenges – problems in which people and ecosystems are entangled….
What is revolutionary about the Green Revolution?
The dramatic increase in yields of wheat and rice in the 1960s and 1970s in India, along with many other countries in the post-colonial world, was framed as a technological…
How do researchers’ roles relate to the methods they work with?
Throughout 2021, through a series of virtual events, we explored a wide range of methods that sustainability researchers are using and combining to both generate knowledge and contribute to positive…
Exploring pathways to sustainable agriculture and food systems
From different pathways for maize farmers in Kenya, to land grabbing and livestock, STEPS research has explored the complex politics of food.
From land grabs to the Anthropocene: exploring the politics of resources
From exposing land grabbing and carbon forestry, to debates about the Anthropocene and ecological crisis, STEPS work explored how people view and interact with the nature(s) around them.
Seeding ideas: knowledge brokering and recombination for agricultural transformations
by Adrian Ely, Paddy Van Zwanenberg, Elise Wach, Martin Obaya and Almendra Cremaschi Straight after the ‘Transformations 2017’ conference, the ‘Pathways’ network gathered at the mid-point in our three year…
PASTRES Team
Read about the people involved in the PASTRES project. Jump to: Core researchers / Country leads / Other project members / Students / Affiliates Core researchers Ian Scoones Ian Scoones…
Natures
Our theme for 2020 is ‘Natures’. Nature is all around us, but there are many ways of seeing different kinds of ‘natures’, and many efforts to involve it in forms…