The ESRC STEPS Centre’s annual conference, Resource Politics: transforming pathways to sustainability will be held at the Institute of Development Studies on 7-9 September 2015. Registration is now closed. Among…
Join us for Resource Politics 2015
Business for peace?
It is difficult to avoid being swept up in the current tide of optimism about Africa and resource development. For once, Africa is not only portrayed by outsiders as a…
Telling stories about scarcity
‘Scarcity’ is a key term in debates about the global rush for land and other resources. A new Future Agricultures working paper, co-authored by STEPS director Ian Scoones, looks at…
Land grabs: knowledge and resistance
by Nathan Oxley, STEPS Centre communications officer Shalmali Guttal from Focus on the Global South addresses the opening plenary The Global Land Grabbing II conference at Cornell last week brought…
GLOBAL LAND GRABBING II
See videos, photos, blogs and more from the second international conference on ‘Global Land Grabbing’. The STEPS Centre also has a range of useful resources on land, green and water grabs. Organised…
World Food Day: The State of Food Insecurity in the World and the Need for Coordinated Action
By John Thompson and Jim Sumberg The three Rome-based agencies of the United Nations – the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agriculture and Development (IFAD) and…
The slippery nature of ‘water grabbing’
Large-scale land acquisitions for agricultural investment, popularly known as ‘land grabbing’, have recently attracted headline attention. But the implications of these land grabs for water resources have stayed out of…
RETHINKING WATER
Our second guest blog for the STEPS Water Symposium is by Gourisankar Ghosh. Gourisankar is the CEO of FXB India Suraksha, a non profit company working for the vulnerable children…
THINKING OUT OF THE WATER BOX
We’re delighted to feature this guest post by Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester. This is the first of a series of blog posts by speakers…