This book takes a fresh look at the livestock sector in the Horn of Africa. The region is often in the headlines for all the wrong reasons: drought, famine, conflict…
Pastoralism and Development in Africa: Dynamic change at the margins
STEPS Centre newsletter – autumn 2012
A bumper edition of the quarterly newsletter this autumn includes details of our upcoming annual symposium, Credibility Across Cultures, next year’s Summer School, a prestigious award win as well as work on the Post-2015 agenda,…
New Andy Stirling presentations
A collection of presentations recently given by STEPS co-director Andy Stirling on: civil society and the direction of innovation; the implications of uncertainty for science policy; knowledge and innovation implications for…
Land grabs: knowledge and resistance
by Nathan Oxley, STEPS Centre communications officer Shalmali Guttal from Focus on the Global South addresses the opening plenary The Global Land Grabbing II conference at Cornell last week brought…
STEPS Centre wins award for contribution to public understanding of the social dimensions of science
The European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) has awarded the ESRC STEPS Centre its prestigious new Ziman award for “the most innovative cooperation in a venture…
GLOBAL LAND GRABBING II
See videos, photos, blogs and more from the second international conference on ‘Global Land Grabbing’. The STEPS Centre also has a range of useful resources on land, green and water grabs. Organised…
World Food Day: The State of Food Insecurity in the World and the Need for Coordinated Action
By John Thompson and Jim Sumberg The three Rome-based agencies of the United Nations – the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agriculture and Development (IFAD) and…
Tackling unregulated health markets
Follow the Washington debate which launched our new book on the spread of health markets in developing countries via the event Storify. New book: Transforming health markets Our new book in the STEPS…
Herd it on the grapevine: how pastoralists get a raw deal in policy and the media
Mike Shanahan of IIED has written two great blog posts in two weeks on how pastoralism is viewed by politicians and by stories in the media. The first covers how…
Pandemic Influenza: Research themes
Outbreak policy narratives Public and policy reactions to H5N1 and H1N1 have been guided by the prospect of the devastating impacts of an outbreak. ‘Outbreak narratives’ have guided policymaking,…