I’ve been looking at the most-viewed posts on the blog since we started in January 2007 (with a post on pro-poor rice farming). It’s interesting to see how the blog’s…
TOP 10 POSTS OF ALL TIME
HAVE YOUR SAY: DELHI SEMINAR ON INNOVATION, SUSTAINABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT
At last month’s seminar on Innovation, Sustainability and Development at NISTADS, participants reflected on the state of innovation in various fields – in food and agriculture, health, ICTs, low carbon…
VIRUS AND BEAST: HOW ONE WORD CHANGES EVERYTHING
How does a single word affect the way we deal with a problem? Last night’s edition of All In The Mind on BBC Radio 4 offered a striking example. Researchers…
EVERYONE’S A WINNER (EXCEPT IF YOU’RE NOT…)
Photo: Jatropha curcas – the biofuel plant from tonrulkens’ photostream on Flickr Our director Melissa Leach is giving the first Annual Piers Blaikie Lecture on Environmental Politics at the University…
COMPLEXITY SCIENCE & DEVELOPMENT
In a world where systems change and interact unpredictably, there’s a growing interest in using complexity science to tackle questions in international development. Our director Melissa Leach spoke last month…
VIDEO: MELISSA LEACH AT NESS 2011
Melissa Leach, STEPS Centre Director, spoke at NESS 2011 (The 10th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference) in Stockholm last week. Her talk (56 minutes), “Pathways to sustainability? Environmental social science…
THE MANIFESTO: ONE YEAR ON
By Adrian Ely, Manifesto project convenor Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto is a year old! It’s been a busy year. In the time since the launch of the Manifesto,…
REVOLUTIONISING DEVELOPMENT: WHOSE FUTURE COUNTS?
By Melissa Leach, STEPS Centre director I first worked with Robert Chambers as a research assistant when I was little more than an undergraduate myself. In the book ‘Revolutionising Development’,…
FILM: “SEEDS AND SUSTAINABILITY” OUT NOW
Our new film, “Seeds and Sustainability: Maize pathways in Kenya”, explores how to secure seeds for farmers growing maize – Kenya’s key staple crop – in drought-prone regions of the…
VIDEO: BRAND AID – SHOPPING WELL TO SAVE THE WORLD
Here’s the video of last week’s seminar on Bono, “aid celebrities” and the RED campaign, by Lisa Ann Richey, Professor of International Development Studies at Roskilde University. If embedding doesn’t…