Publications in the Food & Agriculture category:

Irrigating Zimbabwe After Land Reform: The Potential of Farmer-Led Systems

Scoones. I., Murimbarimba. F. and Mahenehene. J. (2019) ‘Irrigating Zimbabwe after Land Reform: The Potential of Farmer-Led Systems.’, Water Alternatives, 12.1 Farmer-led irrigation is far more extensive in Zimbabwe than…

Brighton & Hove’s Farmland: Potentials for a more local and ecological food supply

Download (PDF) The City of Brighton & Hove has made impressive progress toward improving access to healthy and sustainable food for its residents. Recent research and consultations have indicated a…

Market Linkage Strategies for Local Food Systems: Lessons for Brighton & Hove

Discussion paper July 2018 Produced for the Pathways Network, this paper explores how to link agroecological producers with food markets and consumers in the City of Brighton & Hove, UK….

Seeking unconventional alliances and bridging innovations in spaces for transformative change: the seed sector and agricultural sustainability in Argentina

Experimental spaces for learning about and nurturing processes of social-ecological transformation are of increasing interest; a reflection, in part, of a more interventionist approach to sustainability research and funding. We…

A Class-Analytic Approach to Agricultural Joint Ventures in the Communal Areas of South Africa

STEPS Working Paper 103 July 2018 This paper engages with key debates regarding the dynamics of class formation in the former Bantustans (or ‘homelands’) of South Africa. It is widely…

Governing Food and Agriculture in a Warming World

Understanding how, why, and whether the trade-offs and tensions around simultaneous implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals are resolved both sustainably and equitably requires an appreciation of power relations across…

Market Linkage Strategies for Local Food Systems: Lessons for Brighton & Hove

Strategies for supporting market linkages among stakeholders in food systems can be a win-win-win for primary food producers, retailers and wholesalers, and consumers or caterers. By linking producers to consumers…

Farmers’ agency and experiences of agricultural change in rural Kenya: Insights from exploratory fieldwork

STEPS Working Paper 102 March 2018 Using novel agricultural technologies to boost farm productivity in the face of climatic and demographic disruption remains a priority for African policy and research….

Transforming governance in telecoupled food systems

Hallie Eakin, Ximena Rueda, Ashwina Mahanti Ecology and Society Vol. 22, No. 4 In this paper we analyze how new actors, interests, and resources become salient to food system governance…