By Julia Day, STEPS Centre Communications Manager Across the world, especially in the global South, there has been a dramatic rise in ‘land grabs’ – cross-border, transnational corporation-driven and, in…
LAND GRABS: CALL FOR NEW GRANT APPLICATIONS
NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES: AN INDICATOR OF GREATER SHIFTS
By Hayley MacGregor, STEPS Centre member The UN High-level Summit on Non-communicable Diseases now underway comes at an important moment for the development community. With just over 50 per cent…
A NEW LEADER AND A NEW BEGINNING FOR THE UN FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANISATION?
By John Thompson, co-convenor, STEPS Centre food and agriculture domain and joint coordinator, Future Agricultures Consortium The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) chose Brazil’s José…
A MISSED OPPORTUNITY: THE G-20 ACTION PLAN ON FOOD PRICE VOLATILITY AND AGRICULTURE
By John Thompson, co-convenor, STEPS Centre food and agriculture domain and joint coordinator, Future Agricultures Consortium The Group of Twenty (G-20), comprised of the world’s 19 largest economies, plus the…
AFRICA AND THE MDGs: A MANIFESTO
By Adrian Ely, STEPS Centre member [Edit (7/12/10): The Africa Manifesto has now been launched: you can download it from the ATPS website.] Ten years after the African Technology Policy…
Methods resource page
This section is currently under development (Aug 2013). The content for this page will appear here soon. In the meantime, you might like to watch these short videos of Professor Andy…
PUBLISHED TODAY – NEW BOOK ON RICE BIOFORTIFICATION BY SALLY BROOKS
The latest in the STEPS Centre’s Pathways to Sustainability book series is published today – Rice Biofortification: Lessons for Global Science and Development by Sally Brooks. Biofortification, the enrichment of…
LANGUAGE AND THE NEW MANIFESTO
Indie Dinala, a student on the Science, Society and Development course here at IDS, attended the Manifesto launch on 15 June. These are her personal reflections on what was discussed:…
MANIFESTO ON FILM
The launch of Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto at the Royal Society in London yesterday was captured on video and photograph. The links to the video will appear here…
VIDEO: ADRIAN ELY EXPLAINS THE MANIFESTO PROJECT
Innovation, Development, Sustainability: A New Manifesto is launched to day at the Royal Society in London with 200 deelgates and a packed programme of debate. Here, Adrian Ely, the project’s…