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Women’s Struggles for Empowerment in Bangladesh
(Current History, 2024-04-01)Women have made substantial gains in health, education, and political representation in Bangladesh, which has been led by female prime ministers since 1991. Women play a key role in the garment industry, the country’s main ... -
Young People, Livelihood Building and the Transformation of African Agriculture: A Reality Check
(Elsevier, 2024-04-16)Over a ten-year period, we, together with colleagues, have used qualitative and quantitative analysis to explore the dominant narratives and ‘conventional wisdom’ about young people and agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa ... -
Food Systems Interventions for Nutrition: Lessons from 6 Program Evaluations in Africa and South Asia
(Elsevier, 2024-04-04)Although there is growing global momentum behind food systems strategies to improve planetary and human health—including nutrition—there is limited evidence of what types of food systems interventions work. Evaluating these ... -
Nuevas perspectivas para el desarrollo en base a recursos naturales: una visión neo-schumpeteriana para América Latina
(Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), 2024-03)El estancamiento económico y las limitaciones para sostener un proceso de desarrollo sostenido en América Latina en las últimas décadas demandan un replanteo profundo y audaz de las políticas de desarrollo productivo y ... -
Integrated Knowledge Translation for Non-Communicable Diseases: Stories from Sub-Saharan Africa
(Ubiquity Press, 2023-12-08)Integrated Knowledge Translation (IKT) is a key strategy for contextualising, tailoring, and communicating research for policy and practice. In this viewpoint, we provide examples of how partners from five countries in ... -
Evolving Meanings of ‘Principles’ in Agronomic Discourse
(Sage, 2023-11-09)The notion of principles, and the sense that they are different from but closely linked to practices, is deeply rooted in the agronomy literature. However, these terms are currently used by different authors to mean very ... -
Introduction: Enacting Peace Amid Violence: Nonviolent Civilian Agency in Violent Conflict
(Brill, 2023-09-29)Worldwide, civilians experiencing violence make agential choices about how they interact with conflict landscapes. This special issue assembles contributions that specifically deepen our understanding of nonviolent civilian ... -
Rigour, Timeliness, and Trade-offs in Research: Experience From India’s Swachh Bharat Mission
(Routledge, 2023-10)This article presents lessons learnt from the evolution and usage of rapid action learning methods developed to support the Swachh Bharat Mission – Gramin (the Clean India Mission – Rural) in India. The Mission, started ... -
Economics for an Uncertain World
(Elsevier, 2023-10-11)Uncertainty, where we do not know the likelihood of future events, dominates our world. This article examines how economics as a profession and discipline can address uncertainty. From Frank Knight to John Maynard Keynes ... -
Bringing Together Urban Systems and Food Systems Theory and Research is Overdue: Understanding the Relationships Between Food and Nutrition Infrastructures Along a Continuum of Contested and Hybrid Accessastructures along a continuum of contested and hybrid access
(Springer Link, 2023-10-13)Urban dwellers’ food and nutritional wellbeing are both dependent on infrastructure and can be indicative of wider wellbeing in urban contexts and societal health. This paper focuses on the multiple relationships that exist ... -
The Place of Religious Inequalities Within International Development and Humanitarian Response Frameworks: Lessons from Iraq
(Elsevier, 2023)Within the international development and humanitarian arenas no one disagrees with the language and aspirations of inclusion, protection, rights and equality. Yet, most development framings – policy and operational – have ... -
Breastfeeding and Infant Care as ‘Sexed’ Care Work: Reconsideration of the Three Rs to Enable Women’s Rights, Economic Empowerment, Nutrition and Health
(2023-10-11)Women’s lifelong health and nutrition status is intricately related to their reproductive history, including the number and spacing of their pregnancies and births, and for how long and how intensively they breastfeed their ... -
Rethinking Policies for Pastoralists – Governing the Rangelands
(CSIRO, 2023-08-14)Policies and governance arrangements are relevant in shaping livelihoods in the pastoral regions of the world. Institutions and rules that enable access to land, markets and investment for pastoralists and those that ... -
Key Issues Affecting the Inclusion of Alt Text in Scholarly PDF Publications
(Brill, 2023-09-08)Alternative (alt) text descriptions for images in digital publications provide comparable information for people who cannot effectively see the visuals. They are relied upon by people who are blind or who have a moderate ... -
The Knowledge Politics of Genome Editing in Africa
(University of California Press, 2023-09-15)How is the promise of crop genome editing viewed by scientists working with or aspiring to work with the technology, by development experts seeking to mold public perceptions and policy attitudes toward genome editing, and ... -
Fuel Subsidy Protests in Nigeria: The Promise and Mirage of Empowerment
(Elsevier, 2023-09-13)Attempts to abolish fuel subsidy by successive governments in Nigeria have provoked serious backlash in the form of protests and violence. What maybe said to be the use of such public protests? The literature draw attention ... -
Siloed Discourses: a Year-long Study of Twitter Engagement on the Use of CRISPR in Food and Agriculture
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-08-22)Gene editing technologies are emerging as powerful tools for agricultural development, spurring both hopes and concerns in society. To understand emerging discourses and coalitions around the role of CRISPR gene editing ... -
Unsuccessful Implementation of the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines in Low Income Countries: The Case of Ethiopia
(Sweet and Maxwell, 2023-07)Much international technical assistance is directed towards increasing the capacity of tax authorities in low-income countries to understand and effectively implement the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines, and thus retain ... -
Fringe Heroines: Situated Struggles of Women Scientists in Brazilian Agriculture
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-08-02)Feminist scholarship regards the Western scientific revolution and twentieth-century agricultural modernization as patriarchal endeavors and technoscientific regimes as entangled in societal interests and politics. In ... -
Describing Adolescents with Disabilities’ Experiences of COVID-19 and Other Humanitarian Emergencies in Low- and middle-income Countries: a Scoping Review
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2022-09-06)Background: The COVID-19 pandemic and other humanitarian emergencies exacerbate pre-existing inequalities faced by people with disabilities. They experience worse access to health, education, and social services, and ...