Karhera: A photo book

This book tells the story of Karhera, a village between Delhi and Ghaziabad in India, through photographs, maps and words. It was produced as part of an ESPA-funded research project…

Grassroots Innovation Movements

Read the book Buy the book About the book This book, in the STEPS Centre’s Pathways to Sustainability series, looks at how six grassroots innovation movements around the world have…

One Health: Science, politics and zoonotic disease in Africa

Routledge/Earthscan, 2016 Edited by Kevin Bardosh Buy from the publishers Zoonotic diseases – pathogens transmitted from animals to people – offer particularly challenging problems for global health institutions and actors…

Africa’s Land Rush

Africa has been at the centre of a “land grab” in recent years, with investors lured by projections of rising food prices, growing demand for “green” energy, and cheap land…

Adapting to Climate Uncertainty in African Agriculture: Narratives and knowledge politics

By Stephen Whitfield  Routledge, 2016 Buy this book Future climatic and agro-ecological changes in Africa are uncertain and associated with high degrees of spatial and temporal variability and this change is…

Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development

By Ian Scoones Practical Action Publishing August 2015 An Open Access e-book is available. View/download Buy the book from Practical Action Publishing (price discount for limited period) Medios de vida…

Gender Equality and Sustainable Development

Edited by Melissa Leach Earthscan/Routledge, 2015 Buy this book For pathways to be truly sustainable and advance gender equality and the rights and capabilities of women and girls, those whose…

Governing Agricultural Sustainability: Global lessons from GM crops

edited by Phil Macnaghten and Susana Carro Ripalda Routledge/Earthscan, 2015 Buy this book Although GM crops are seen by their advocates as a key component of the future of world…

Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa

You can download the Accepted Manuscript of Chapter 1 of this book, open access. Download Chapter 1 Buy this book Amidst the pressing challenges of global climate change, the last…