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….
Farmers’ agency and experiences of agricultural change in rural Kenya: Insights from exploratory fieldwork
Configurations of agency and power in the academic discourse on the Green Revolution in East Africa
STEPS Working Paper 97 In this paper I perform a discourse analysis of the academic literature on the Green Revolution (GR) in East Africa, governed by two questions: what form…
Structural drivers of vulnerability to zoonotic disease in Africa
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 372, 20160169 By Dzingirai Vupenyu, Salome Bukachi, Melissa Leach, Lindiwe Mangwanya, Ian Scoones and Annie Wilkinson This paper argues that addressing the underlying structural drivers…
Integrative modelling for One Health: pattern, process and participation
by I. Scoones, K. Jones, G. Lo Iacono, D. W. Redding, A. Wilkinson and J. L. N. Wood Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 372:20160164 June 2017 This paper argues for…
Making ‘Mangroves Together’: Carbon, conservation and co-management in Gazi Bay, Kenya
STEPS Working Paper 95 Market-based strategies are increasingly being framed by highlevel stakeholders as ideal means of responding to environmental problems on various scales. As a result, concepts and mechanisms…
The political economy of state-led transformations in pro-poor low carbon energy: A case study of solar PV in Kenya
International efforts to achieve goals such as universal energy access and climate change mitigation are expected to stimulate billions of dollars of private financial flows to developing countries for clean…
The Political Economy of State-led Energy Transformations: Lessons from Solar PV in Kenya and China
STEPS Working Paper 92 Amid talk of the need for a low carbon ‘clean energy revolution’ to address the challenges of energy poverty and climate change, there is growing academic…
Building Innovation Systems for Climate Change Technology Transfer: Perspectives from East Africa
Climate Resilient Economies Programme Policy Brief 006/2016 African Centre for Technology Studies / STEPS Global Consortium Innovation systems are critical to technology transfer and implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)….
Indigenous African soil enrichment as a climate-smart sustainable agriculture alternative
by Dawit Solomon, Johannes Lehmann, James A Fraser, Melissa Leach, Kojo Amanor, Victoria Frausin, Søren M Kristiansen, Dominique Millimouno and James Fairhead We describe for the first time a current…
Beyond technology and finance: pay-as-you-go sustainable energy access and theories of social change
Two-thirds of people in sub-Saharan Africa lack access to electricity, a precursor of poverty reduction and development. The international community has ambitious commitments in this regard, e.g. the UN’s Sustainable…