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  • STEPS Seminar: Nora McKeon on Food Security Governance

    Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    ‘Food Security Governance: empowering communities, regulating corporations’ Seminar with Nora McKeon. All welcome. Terra Nuova, Board Member, Roma 3 Masters in Human Development and Food Security, Lecturer, West African Network of Peasant and Agricultural Producers’ Organizations (ROPPA), Technical Adviser Today’s global food system generates hunger alongside of land grabs, food waste, health problems, massive greenhouse...

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  • STEPS Africa launch – Low carbon Africa: Development Pathways out of Poverty

    Crowne Plaza Hotel Nairobi, Kenya

    The STEPS Africa Sustainability Hub was officially launched on 12 June 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya at a workshop entitled Low carbon Africa: Development Pathways out of Poverty. The event brought together 100 international delegates drawn from government, industry, universities and civil society to explore and share ideas and approaches on pathways towards developing low carbon...

  • Low Carbon Development in Africa

    This event aimed to shape the research, policy and practice agendas for low-carbon development in Africa. It was also the launch event for the STEPS Africa Sustainability Hub. Low Carbon Development in Africa workshop. Photo: STEPS Centre In Sub-Saharan Africa, two-thirds of people still lack access to electricity. Working for economic development and reducing poverty,...

  • Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS): Challenges of Nation-wide Scaling up and Sustainability

    Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    This event will be live streamed (see below) and a video recording will be available afterwards. Since its innovation in Bangladesh in 2000, Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) has spread to more than 65 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America where more than 400 million people are now living in open defecation free (ODF) environments....

  • Transdisciplinary Methods for Developing Nexus Capabilities Workshop

    SPRU Jubilee Building, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    The Nexus Network workshop on ‘Transdisciplinary Methods for Developing Nexus Capabilities’, led by STEPS Co-Director Andy Stirling, will be held at the University of Sussex, UK on 29-30 June 2015. The workshop will be shaped around two key questions: What different kinds and interconnections of method in contrasting contexts, form the most practical basis for...

  • STEPS Centre events at ‘Our Common Future’ conference

    Various Paris, France

    From 8 - 10 July, STEPS Centre members will be participating in the international conference Our Common Future Under Climate Change in Paris. The conference comes ahead of the UN's COP21 conference in December. It looks at the state of knowledge about, and the range of responses to, climate change. Find out about our research...

  • STEPS Seminar: Yixin Dai – Chinese Renewable Energy Policy

    ‘Chinese Renewable Energy Policy – Policy Implementation, and Participation’ Yixin Dai, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University In order to reach its ambitious emissions targets, China has been promoting renewable energy through a series of top-down policies since 2006. Recent successes have seen wind turbine installation capacity exceed 100GW in 2014, and nuclear...

  • STISA-2024: Debating Africa’s “Blueprint” for Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Development

    Convening Space, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    This panel debate at the Institute of Development Studies examines responses to the recently-published Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa (STISA-2024). In June 2014, the 23rd Ordinary Session of African Union Heads of State and Government Summit adopted a 10-year Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa (STISA-2024). The strategy is part of the...

  • STEPS conference 2015: Resource Politics

    Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    Resource Politics: Transforming Pathways to Sustainability Why now? Contexts and debates In the build up to the confirmation of the post-2015 sustainable development goals, the politics of resource access, allocation and distribution are high on global policy agendas. The limits to economic activity in the face of ‘planetary boundaries’ are being fiercely debated, and even...

  • The Politics of Nature: reimagining power, resistance and critique from above, below and within

    Arts C 233, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK Speakers: Prof Dianne Rocheleau - Clark University Kathleen McAfee - San Francisco State University This interactive workshop is organised by the Centre for Global Political Economy and the STEPS Centre. It follows the conference 'Resource Politics: transforming pathways to sustainability'. Attendance is free, but registration is required....

  • STEPS Seminar: ‘Resource Politics: Future Directions’

    Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    Room 221, Institute of Development Studies, Library Road, Falmer, BN1 9RE, UK ‘Resource Politics: Future Directions’ Dianne Rocheleau and Kathleen McAfee A critical resource politics can contribute to reframing conservation sciences to bring science into the service of social and ecological justice. To this end, many of us are challenging the fetish of economic growth...

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  • How can makerspaces, fablabs and hackerspaces help cultivate sustainable developments?

    Machines Room 45 Vyner Street, London, United Kingdom

    Machines Room, 45 Vyner Street, London, E2 9DQ United Kingdom Interest in the social, economic and environmental possibilities of makerspaces and the maker movement continues to grow. This event brings together people involved or interested in sustainability activities to share, discuss, and reflect upon their experiences. In the discussions, our objective will be to consider...

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  • Opening up the development agenda: STEPS América Latina launch

    The event ‘Opening up the development agenda’, to mark the launch of the STEPS América Latina hub, took place on 5 and 6 November in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Blog posts Opening up democratic politics for sustainable development, by Andy Stirling, 24 November 2015 Opening up science and development in Latin America, by Nathan Oxley, 8...

  • STEPS Centre Seminar “Will Africa Feed China?”

    Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    The STEPS Centre Seminar on 'Will Africa Feed China?" was by Professor Deborah Bräutigam and took place at the IDS Convening Space, on 16th November 2015, 13:00-14.30. Audio recording: Is China building an empire in rural Africa? China has nine percent of the world's arable land, six percent of its water, and over 20 percent...

  • Nexus network conference: ‘Scales, levels and spaces of the nexus’

    The Nexus Network second Annual Conference will be held on Thursday 19 November 2015, in central London. Questions of scale are crucial in addressing the linked nexus challenges of food, energy, water and the environment. The nexus is often framed as a global security problem, but this can obscure alternative understandings of interactions and trade-offs...

  • ‘The ethos of scientific advice’ Seminar

    SPRU Jubilee Building, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    Arthur Peterson, from STEaPP, UCL, will give a seminar on ‘The ethos of scientific advice’ as part of the SPRU Friday Seminar Series on Friday, 20th November 2015. The seminar will be chaired by Andy Stirling (SPRU), and followed by a Roundtable on 'Dilemmas of Uncertainty in the Politics of Science and Innovation’, with James Wilsdon and Erik Millstone...