Global Uncertainties The ESRC Festival of Social Science flagship event on 12 March at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. STEPS director Melissa Leach spoke on 'Securing a safer, sustainable and equitable world' and wrote for the ESRC's The Edge magazine. Spring 2008, Issue 27 Building genuine pathways to a more...

Transboundary animal disease and market access: future options for the beef industry in southern Africa In April 2008, over 60 delegates gathered in Pretoria to discuss practical options to unlock the potential of the southern African livestock industry. Workshop, Pretoria, South Africa, 7-8 April 2008 Workshop report (pdf 260kb) Participants list (pdf 265kb) Workshop Highlights:...

Conference chaired by Kofi Annan There is a clear need for a new vision for agricultural development in Africa that can deal with the complexities of agriculture in diverse settings across Africa and meet the conditions necessary to achieve more equitable benefits for Africa’s farmers. Kofi Annan chaired a conference beginning on Wednesday organised by...

Wenzel Geissler, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, gave a STEPS Seminar on 6 May 2008 entitles: Second enclosure: the changing spaces of medical research in 21st Century Kenya. Photos from the seminar (Flickr)  

J. V. Meenakshi, Impact and Policy Coordinator for Harvest Plus gave a STEPS Seminar on: Using Choice Experiments to Assess the Potential Success of Biofortification in Ameliorating Micronutrient Malnutrition: some evidence from Sub Saharan Africa. Read J.V. Meenakshi's presentation (on Slideshare) Photos (Flickr)  

Francis X. Johnson, Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute on Biofuels, Climate and Development: Emerging Issues and Challenges. Read Francis Johnson's presentation (on Slideshare) Read the blog Listen to the podcast Photos (Flickr)

Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto project seminar Fred Steward, Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Brunel University on Transformative Innovation for the Global Good: A shared challenge-oriented mission for the 21st Century. Read Fred Steward's presentation (on Slideshare) Listen to the podcast Photos from the seminar (Flickr)

Fabian Scholtes, Centre for Development Research, Bonn gave a STEPS Centre seminar entitled Moral values and Solar Panels: moral knowledge in technology-based development Fabian Scholtes' presentation (on Slideshare)

Andrew Jamison, Professor of technology, environment and society at Aalborg University, Sweden, on the quest for green knowledge. Read Andrew Jamison's presentation (on Slideshare) Read the blog Listen to the podcast Photos (on Flickr)

Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto project seminar Dr Andrew Barnett, Director, Policy Practice Ltd gave a seminar entitled 'Innovation - re-labelling research or a shift in paradigm: the current debate in agricultural research for development'. View Andrew Barnett's presentation (on Slideshare) Listen to the podcast Photos from the seminar (Flickr)