Publications Archives

STEPS Centre Research: Our Approach to Impact

STEPS Centre Working Paper 60 Download this paper (PDF) The ‘impact’ of research has seen a dramatic rise up the UK’s policy agenda in recent years. But what does ‘impact’…

Socially Useful Production

STEPS Working Paper 58 A history and analysis is provided of the movement for socially useful production, which flourished for a brief period in the UK in the 1970s and…

Reimagining Development 3.0 for a Changing Planet

by Jon Moris STEPS Centre / IDS Working Paper (IDS WP435) This working paper (pdf) argues we need to reimagine development tactics to fashion Development 3.0, to match what business…

The Politics of Trypanosomiasis Control in Africa

STEPS Working Paper 57 African trypanosomiasis is a devastating disease, both for humans and animals. Over the last hundred years huge efforts have been made to control it. This paper…

Innovation politics post-Rio+20: hybrid pathways to sustainability?

The ability of innovation—both technical and social—to stretch and redefine ‘limits to growth’ was recognised at Stockholm in 1972, and has been a key feature in debates through to Rio+20…

Constructing grassroots innovations for sustainability

This article is included in a special issue of Global Environmental Change about grassroots innovations, guest edited by Adrian Smith and Gill Seyfang.

Zoonoses research updates

The Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium is bringing together natural and social scientists to understand four neglected zoonotic (passed from animal to human) diseases in five African countries:…

Ghana’s Poultry Sector: Limited Data, Conflicting Narratives, Competing Visions

This paper analyses the policy context around the Ghana poultry sector with a particular focus on a number of ‘evidence issues’. We identify and probe where there appear to be…

Enabling adaptation? Lessons from the new ‘Green Revolution’ in Malawi and Kenya

Abstract This article explores the extent to which efforts to improve productivity of smallholder agriculture through a new ‘Green Revolution’ in Sub Saharan Africa are likely to enhance the capacity…