ESRC STEPS Centre: Recent submissions

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    • Understanding and managing zoonotic risk in the new livestock industries 

      Liverani, Marco; Waage, Jeff; Barnett, Tony; Pfeiffer, Dirk U.; Rushton, Jonathan; Rudge, James W.; Loevinsohn, Michael E.; Scoones, Ian; Smith, Richard D.; Cooper, Ben S.; White, Lisa J.; Shan, Goh; Horby, Peter; Wren, Brendan; Gundogdu, Ozan; Woods, Abigail; Coker, Richard J. (NIEHS / Environmental Health Perspectives, 2013-08-01)
      Background: In many parts of the world, livestock production is undergoing a process of rapid intensification. The health implications of this development are uncertain. Intensification creates cheaper products, allowing ...

    • The social and political lives of zoonotic disease models: Narratives, science and policy 

      Leach, Melissa; Scoones, Ian (Elsevier, 2013-07-01)
      Zoonotic diseases currently pose both major health threats and complex scientific and policy challenges, to which modelling is increasingly called to respond. In this article we argue that the challenges are best met by ...

    • The Global Politics of Water Grabbing 

      Franco, J; Mehta, Lyla; Veldwisch, G. J (Taylor & Francis, 2013-11)
      The contestation and appropriation of water is not new, but recent global debates on land grabbing are bringing increased attention to a water perspective in these discussions. Water grabbing takes place in a field that ...

    • Public agronomy: Norman Borlaug as ‘brand hero’ for the Green Revolution 

      Sumberg, James; Keeney, Dennis; Benedict, Dempsey (Taylor & Francis, 2012)
      This paper examines the role played by Norman Borlaug in promoting the notion of Green Revolution as a way to rapidly transform agriculture in the developing world. It develops the argument that Borlaug used his profile ...

    • Why agronomy in the developing world has become contentious 

      Sumberg, James; Thompson, John; Woodhouse, Philip (Springer, 2013-03)
      In this paper we argue that over the last 40 years the context of agronomic research in the developing world has changed significantly. Three main changes are identified: the neoliberal turn in economic and social policy ...

    • The changing politics of agronomy research 

      Sumberg, James; Thompson, John; Woodhouse, Philip (IP Publishing, 2013)
      The context in which agronomy research takes place has changed fundamentally over the last 40 years, with important implications for the discipline. Systematic study of the new politics of agronomy is particularly important ...

    • Response to ‘Combining sustainable agricultural production with economic and environmental benefits’ 

      Sumberg, James; Andersson, Jens; Giller, Ken; Thompson, John (Wiley/Royal Geographical Society, 2013)
      We suggest that a recent commentary piece in The Geographical Journal on Conservation Agriculture (CA) and the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) (Kassam and Brammer 2012 was misleading because it drew very selectively ...

    • A new innovation politics for global pathways to sustainability? 

      Ely, Adrian; Smith, Adrian; Leach, Melissa; Stirling, Andy; Scoones, Ian (EPC Government and Policy, 2013)
      The ability of innovation – both technical and social - to stretch and redefine ‘limits to growth’ was recognised at Stockholm in 1972, and has been a key feature in debates through to Rio+20 in 2012. Compared with previous ...

    • Revolution Reconsidered: Evolving Perspectives on Livestock Production and Consumption 

      Sumberg, James; Thompson, John (Steps Centre, 2012)
      Over the last two decades much has been written about the on-going re-structuring of the global food system and its regional, national and local manifestations (McMichael 1993; Goss et al. 2000; Busch and Bain 2004; ...

    • New Development Encounters: China and Brazil in African Agriculture 

      Scoones, Ian; Cabral, Lídia; Tugendhat, Henry (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2013-07-03)
      There is currently much talk of the role of the ‘rising powers’ in Africa, and whether their engagements represent a ‘new paradigm’ in development cooperation. This article introduces this IDS Bulletin and examines Brazilian ...

    • Negotiating New Relationships: How the Ethiopian State is Involving China and Brazil in Agriculture and Rural Development 

      Alemu, Dawit; Scoones, Ian (Wiley, 2013)
      This article provides an overview of Brazilian and Chinese agricultural development cooperation activities in Ethiopia. In the context of a highly aid-dependent country, the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) has developed an ...

    • Empowering Designs: towards more progressive social appraisal of sustainability 

      Stirling, Andy; Leach, Melissa; Mehta, Lyla; Scoones, Ian; Smith, Adrian; Stagl, Sigrid; Thompson, John (STEPS Centre, 2007)
      The challenges of designing new frameworks for social appraisal aimed at sustainability and social justice are reviewed by this paper. Here, ‘social appraisal’ refers to the ways society gathers knowledges to inform policy ...

    • Agri-Food System Dynamics: pathways to sustainability in an era of uncertainty 

      Thompson, John; Millstone, Erik; Scoones, Ian; Ely, Adrian; Marshall, Fiona; Shah, Esha; Stagl, Sigrid; Wilkinson, Jasmine (STEPS Centre, 2007)
      The ‘modernist’ project that has come to dominate food and agricultural policy has failed to provide sustainable outcomes for many poor people in developing countries. Conventional agricultural science is not able to explain ...

    • Health in a Dynamic World 

      Bloom, Gerald; Leach, Melissa; MacGregor, Hayley; Waldman, Linda; Edstrom, Jerker; Lucas, Henry; Standing, Hilary (STEPS Centre, 2007)
      The world has faced a number of major health challenges over the past few decades. These include the resurgence of a number of infectious diseases, the HIV epidemic, periodic pollution disasters, the rising burden of chronic ...

    • Dynamic Systems and the Challenge of Sustainability 

      Scoones, Ian; Leach, Melissa; Smith, Adrian; Stagl, Sigrid; Stirling, Andy; Thompson, John (STEPS Centre, 2007)
      Dynamism, uncertainty and complexity dominate today’s world. Yet many policy interventions ignore this, and so often fail. What is missing is a rigorous and systematic approach to addressing dynamics, one that encompasses ...

    • Made by Monsanto: The Corporate Shaping of GM Crops as a Technology for the Poor 

      Glover, Dominic (STEPS Centre, 2008)
      This working paper by Dominic Glover is about the social construction and social shaping of agricultural biotechnology in relation to international development. Genetically modified (GM, transgenic) crops have come to ...

    • Haemorrhagic Fevers in Africa: Narratives, Politics and Pathways of Disease and Response 

      Leach, Melissa (STEPS Centre, 2008)
      Haemorrhagic fevers have, par excellence, captured popular and media imagination as deadly diseases to come ‘out of Africa’. Associated with wildlife vectors in forested environments, viral haemorrhagic fevers such as ...

    • Epidemics for all? Governing Health in a Global Age 

      Dry, Sarah (STEPS Centre, 2008)
      Current global health policy is dominated by a preoccupation with infectious diseases and in particular with emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases that threaten to ‘break out’ of established patterns of prevalence ...

    • Knowledge Accumulation and the Development of Poliomyelitis Vaccines 

      Yaqub, Ohid (STEPS Centre, 2009)
      What does it take to develop a vaccine? This paper explores the technical and institutional conditions that allow reliable knowledge to build up in a series of structured stages from the laboratory to the field. The paper ...

    • Cambodia’s Victim Zero: Global and National Responses to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza 

      Ear, Sophal (STEPS Centre, 2009)
      Cambodia’s experience with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) since the disease was discovered on a farm outside Phnom Penh in January 2004 reveals important aspects of how a developing country with limited resources ...