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Pastoralism and Development in Africa
Green grabs and biochar: Revaluing African soils and farming in the new carbon economy
Biochar currently attracts technological and market optimism, promising multiple wins – for climate change, food security, bioenergy and health – not least for African farmers. This paper examines the political-economic and discursive processes constructing…
Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature?
Across the world, ‘green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. The vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances…
Special issue: Green grabbing
A special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies, edited by James Fairhead, Melissa Leach and Ian Scoones. This issue draws new theorisation together with 17 cases from African, Asian…
Contested Agronomy: Agricultural Research in a Changing World
Edited by James Sumberg and John Thompson Routledge, 2012 Buy this book This book in our Pathways to Sustainability series looks at the how debates in crop and land science…
Seeds and Sustainability: Maize pathways in Kenya
This short film from the STEPS Centre brings together an engaging cast of characters including a farmer, a scientist, a regulator and a seed policy analyst. Each has a different…
Shaping agricultural innovation systems responsive to food insecurity and climate change
Climate change and variability present new challenges for agriculture, particularly for smallholder farmers who continue to be the mainstay of food production in developing countries. Recent global food crises have…
Veterinary science, transboundary animal diseases and markets: pathways for policy in Namibia
The beef industry in southern Africa has been a stalwart of economic development, but new conditions of trade, market access and disease dynamics, particularly of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), mean a…
Workshop highlights: Transboundary animal diseases and market access: the future of beef marketing in southern Africa
(French version / en français) Cooperation, innovation and diversification are the keys to a bright future for the red meat industry in southern Africa. This was the message emerging from…
Synthèse de l’atelier: Maladies animales transfrontalières et accès aux marchés : l’avenir du secteur du boeuf en Afrique australe
(English version / en Anglais) Coopération, innovation et diversification sont les clés du succès futur du secteur de la viande rouge en Afrique australe. Tel est le message ayant émergé…