The STEPS biotechnology research archive consists of evidence-based research on GM crops, food and development spanning the last 10 years.
Biotechnology research archive
TAPESTRY
Project dates: 2018-2022 Follow TAPESTRY on Twitter: @Tapestry_T2S The TAPESTRY research project explores how transformation may arise ‘from below’ in marginal environments with high levels of uncertainty. We look at…
System Change Hive
The System Change HIVE is a creative engine room to explore alternative futures and visions of society through art and virtual reality. Starting in Brighton, UK in February 2019, the…
‘Pathways’ Network: Transformative pathways to sustainability
The PATHWAYS Network carries out comparative research in six countries to explore how to work with local people on social transformations in the context of environmental change. We are conducting…
Relational Pathways
Date: October 2016 – September 2019 Pathways into and out of poverty are complex. In the 21st century, global poverty is compounded by climate change, conflict and inequality, as well…
Transitions to Agroecological Food Systems
This project examines potential pathways for transitioning to more sustainable food systems in order to contribute to improved ecological, economic, social and nutritional outcomes. The project draws on the principles…
Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto
In 1970 a radical document called The Sussex Manifesto helped shape modern thinking on science and technology for development. Forty years on, what kind of science and technology for development…
The Rising Powers: Clean Development and the Low Carbon Transition in sub-Saharan Africa
This interdisciplinary research project examined how, why and to what extent the Rising Powers (specifically China, India and Brazil) are enabling the transition to low carbon energy systems in Southern…
Governance of Discontinuity in Technological Systems (DiscGo)
This is a collaborative project involving Andy Stirling, co-director of the STEPS Centre and SPRU, Pierre-Benoit Joly at INRA in Paris, Peter Stegmaier at TSG in Dortmund and led by Stefan Kuhlmann…
Climate Geoengineering Governance
The Climate Geoengineering Governance (CGG) project was a collaboration between the Universities of Oxford and Sussex and University College London, which worked between July 2012 and December 2014. The project…