Press release / African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) (source) Nairobi, Kenya 27 July 2018 ACTS partners with UK varsity to boost Africa’s access to climate change funds Kenya’s top…
ACTS and Sussex University work together to boost Africa’s access to climate change funds
New journal ‘Nature and Space’ launched
The links between the environment and justice, past and present, are highlighted in a new article, ‘The antinomies of nature and space’, co-authored by STEPS member Lyla Mehta. So-called ‘natural’…
New ‘TAPESTRY’ project on transformations from below in uncertain environments
A new project involving STEPS is one of twelve awarded funding by the Belmont Forum and NORFACE joint programme Transformations to Sustainability (T2S). The project is entitled TAPESTRY: Transformation as…
Africa Sustainability Hub runs training for climate policy makers
The Africa Sustainability Hub is running a 2 week fully funded internship on 9-20 July for African policymakers on the preparation of Green Climate Fund (GCF) proposals. The GCF is…
New resource: Authoritarian populism and the rural world
Authoritarian populism is on the rise, claiming support from rural areas. A new resource hosted by openDemocracy explores how authoritarian populism has taken hold, and how rural people are responding…
Xochimilco and its wetlands: lessons from the earthquake of 2017
Researchers of the STEPS Centre North America hub have published an article about its work relating to “chinampas” of Xochimilco, a very vast wetland in the peri-urban area of México City that was beaten by the earthquake of 2017.
From common good to corporate ownership: The new strategy to modify the Seed Law
De bien común a propiedad corporativa: La nueva estrategia para modificar la Ley de Semillas By Maxi Goldschmidt Abstract This article reflects on the debate around the reform of Argentina’s Seed…
Open Source Seeds
Semillas con código abierto By Juan Manuel Repetto Abstract Currently, the seed industry has a high level of concentration and only three business groups control more than half of the…
T-Lab in Buenos Aires: Bioleft, co-designing open source seeds
The Latin America Hub of Pathways to Sustainabilty project is working on a system to protect biological information and ensure its circulation for research and development.
Three PhD scholarships on pastoralism in Kenya, China and Italy
As part of an Advanced Grant European Research Council award, led by Professor Ian Scoones, we are recruiting three PhD students to start in February 2019 for three years full-time….