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Time to outbreed animal science? A cattle-breeding system exploiting structural unpredictability: the WoDaaBe herders in Niger

Cutting-edge research on agri-food systems contends that mainstream agricultural science is ill-equipped to address issues of complexity, diversity and uncertainty. The paper tackles this issue looking at animal breeding, an…

Understanding Governance: pathways to sustainability

The challenges of understanding the governance of dynamic social, technological and environmental systems, and thier implications for sustainability and social justice, are addressed.

Pathways to Sustainability: an overview of the STEPS Centre approach

This paper outlines the STEPS Centre approach to understanding dynamic systems and addressing their goverance so as to promote pathways to Sustainabilty that meet the perspectives and priorities of poor and marginalised groups. It lays out the ingredients of the STEPS Centre’s work, including linking diverse social and natural science perspectives, connecting theory, policy and practice and an engaged, interactive approach to communications.

Spanish version: Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto

Spanish (Latin American) translation of Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto.

New Models of Technology Assessment for Development

This report explores the role that ‘new models’ of technology assessment can play in improving the lives of poor and vulnerable populations in the developing world. The ‘new models’ addressed…

HIV/AIDS, Forests and Futures in Sub-Saharan Africa

Throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) pandemic is having devastating and tragic social, economic, and political impacts. HIV/AIDS is both a health issue and a development…

Biocharred Pathways to Sustainability? Triple Wins, Livelihoods and the Politics of Technological Promise

‘Biochar’ is currently the focus of extraordinary levels of both technological optimism and debate. As a substance, biochar refers quite simply to the carbon-rich product that results when biomass –…

Going with the Flow? Directions of Innovation in the Water and Sanitation Domain

Water and sanitation issues are looming large on the international agenda, not least due to the impetus created by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to halve, by 2015, the proportion…

Chinese version: Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto

Chinese (Mandarin) translation of Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto.