Kenya
STEPS/Future Agricultures Seminar: Mohamed Elmi and Izzy Birch
Institute of Development Studies , United KingdomThe politics of policy-making around pastoralism in Kenya Hon. Mohamed Elmi Member of Parliament for Tarbaj constituency, Kenya and Former Minister for Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands Izzy Birch Technical Adviser, National Drought Management Authority, Kenya (formerly Ministry of Northern Kenya and other Arid Lands) STEPS Centre / Future Agricultures Consortium Seminar In April...
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,...
Seminar: Connor Cavanagh on responses to violent eviction
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomDifferentiated dispossession: ‘Hunter-gatherer’ responses to violent eviction from Embobut Forest Reserve, western Kenya Seminar by Connor Joseph Cavanagh Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, UK Critical scholarship on global land and ‘green’ grabbing has begun to examine the politics of variegation in diverse ‘responses from below’, or the ways in which various...
STEPS Seminar: Charles Tonui on the co-management of mangrove forest in Gazi Bay, Kenya
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United Kingdom‘The Role of Community Based Organisations and Associations in Co-management of Forests in Kenya: The case of Mikoko Pamoja Community Based Organisation (MPCBO) and Gogoni-Gazi Community Forest Association (GOGACFA) in the Co-management of Mangrove Forest in Gazi Bay, Kenya’ STEPS Seminar with Charles Tonui, African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), Kenya. All are welcome to...
Transformations 2017: Transformations in Practice
Forum Theatre, Level 1, Arts West The University of Melbourne, Parkville campus Forum Theatre, Level 1, Arts West The University of Melbourne, Parkville campus, Melbourne, AustraliaMembers of the STEPS Centre, along with colleagues from the Pathways to Sustainability Global Consortium, will be attending the Transformations 2017: Transformations in Practice conference in August. The Transformations conference is hosted by the Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience (CECHR) at the University of Dundee. It is the third in a biennial series...
Power and Methods (ARIN webinar)
14.30-16.30 (East Africa Time/Nairobi) 5 March 2021, online Subscribe to our Events newsletter During 2021, the African Research and Impact Network (ARIN) are convening a series of events and engagements on Methods. The ARIN events explore the question of Decolonising Methodologies to Sustainability in Africa. In the Global South, ‘coloniality’ has long been associated with...
ARIN Webinar: Multidimensionality of Methods
Webinar organised by the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN). 8 July 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZMaXeye9OU This webinar explores multiple facets of research (such as funding flows, research politics, and the perceived research power dynamics between female and male researcher), and how collectively they promote or undermine decoloniality of methods. Considering that different disciplines have variety in...