By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member On June 10 the STEPS Centre is launching a Biotechnology Research Archive and a new paper on Bt Cotton by Dominic Glover at a…
GM CROPS: JUNE LAUNCH
DANGEROUS IDEAS IN DEVELOPMENT: GM CROPS AND THE GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member Genetically-modified (GM) crops are sometimes trumpeted as the solution to the global food crisis, and the route to transforming developing agriculture and reducing poverty…
NEW AVIAN FLU PUBLICATIONS FOCUS ON SE ASIA
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member As participants gather for the major international meeting in Winnipeg Canada this week to discuss ways forward on the One World, One Health initiative,…
TECHNOLOGY MYTHS DEBUNKED
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member A press release lands in the STEPS Centre’s in-box announcing: “It’s myth busting time. The myth that lightly regulated global finance capital can generate…
Knowledge Society Debates
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member In India, as in Europe, visions of a knowledge society have brought science, technology and innovation to the forefront of politics, democracy and public…
CLTS CONFERENCE: INSIGHTS ON SUSTAINABILITY AND SCALING UP
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member Melissa Leach, director of the STEPS Centre and several of the Centre’s members, opened the third and final day of the CLTS Conference with…
CLTS CONFERENCE: PHOTO ALBUM
Have a look at photos from the CLTS conference on our Flickr photostream
CLTS CONFERENCE: RAPID ZAMBIAN SUCCESS
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member An astounding story of success – and the potential of CLTS – came courtesy of Peter Harvey, chief, water and environmental sanitation, Unicef in…
CLTS CONFERENCE: THE AFRICAN EXPERIENCE
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member We move to the Africa this morning, where CLTS exists in 22 countries but is relatively new compared to the approach’s history in Asia….
CLTS CONFERENCE: FOCUS ON SANITATION
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member Eight years after the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach for mobilising communitites to build their own toilets was pioneered, over 60 delegates have gathered…