This is the fourth and last in a series of blog posts on the climate by STEPS co-director Andy Stirling, under the heading: ‘Controlling a stable planetary climate – or…
Thriving in an ever-changing world: from technocratic control to emancipatory care?
Rebuilding same or rebuilding different? Critical questions in the aftermath of Cyclone Amphan
by Upasona Ghosh, Shibaji Bose, Debdatta Chakraborty, TAPESTRY project “We will build it again. We have done the same before and might have to do it many a time in…
Does the African Green Revolution include smallholder farmers?
This year’s African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) took place online, hosted out of Kigali, Rwanda. Chaired by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), the AGRF is a…
Don’t save ‘the world’ – embrace a pluriverse!
by Saurabh Arora and Andy Stirling The United Nations is 75 years old on 24 October 2020. It’s an unfortunate year to be reaching this milestone. Apart from global pandemic…
How do we study mangrove ecology with pastoralists in Kachchh?
by Ranit Chaterjee, Pankaj Joshi, Mahendra Bhanani, Mahesh Garva and Nobuhito Ohte As part of the TAPESTRY project, we are working to understand the ecology of mangroves in Kachchh, on…
Genome editing in post-Brexit agriculture: Which way for the UK?
Angela Noland, Dominic Glover and Adrian Ely In less than a month’s time, the UK’s relationship with the European Union will change dramatically. Agriculture and food will be among the…
How do we ‘decolonise’ research methodologies?
by Nora Ndege and Joel Onyango, Africa Research and Impact Network / African Centre for Technology Studies This blog post is part of the STEPS Centre’s 2021 theme on Methods….
Waves of challenging research for sustainability
by Patricia Pérez Belmont, Umbela Transformaciones Sostenibles How can research methods inform and catalyse change towards more sustainable worlds? Last month, the STEPS Centre held an online event to launch…
Research and activism: ideas for scholars and activists
The resources in this section aim to support researchers engaged in action research involving civil society organisations and movements for social change. They offer ideas, literature and network to provoke…
Faced with devastating cyclones, how are women in coastal Bangladesh building resilience?
by Sumaiya Binte Anwar and Mahmuda Akter, Research Officers, ICCCAD In recent years, cyclones have battered the coastal fringes of Bangladesh, with one following closely after another. In Satkhira district,…