STEPS Working Paper 98 Experimentation with radically open and collaborative ways of producing knowledge and material artefacts can be found everywhere – from the free/libre and open-source software movement to…
Open and Collaborative Developments
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…
Agronomy for Development: The Politics of Knowledge in Agricultural Research
edited by James Sumberg Published by Earthscan/Routledge, 2017 Buy this book Over the last decade there has been renewed interest in food security and the state of the global food…
Emancipatory rural politics: confronting authoritarian populism
by Ian Scoones, Marc Edelman, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Wendy Wolford & Ben White The Journal of Peasant Studies, Forum on Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World A…
FreeBook: Pathways to Sustainable Agriculture
This Routledge FreeBook highlights some of the major findings that have emerged over the last decade of the STEPS Centre’s research on sustainable agriculture. Download this book It draws on…
Heirloom rice in Ifugao: an ‘anti-commodity’ in the process of commodification
We analyse the marketing of ‘heirloom rices’ produced in the Cordillera mountains of northern Luzon, the Philippines, as the commodification of a historical ‘anti-commodity’. We contend that, historically, rice was…
India’s peri-urban frontier: rural-urban transformations and food security
In India, peri-urban areas are too often neglected. Many people live in poverty and face increasing marginalisation and food insecurity. Yet peri-urban agriculture could be a major contributor to poverty…
Why Peri-urban Ecosystem Services Matter for Urban Policy
This policy briefing draws on insights from the Risks and Responses to Urban Futures project. This briefing draws on recent research to show how people benefit from ecoystems in and…
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…
Co-design with aligned and non-aligned knowledge partners: implications for research and coproduction of sustainable food systems
An article by Anabel Marin, Adrian Ely & Patrick van Zwanenberg about the benefits and challenges involved in co-designing research projects on agriculture & food with partners who are ‘aligned’ or ‘non-aligned’ in their aims and values, published in the journal ‘Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability’.