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Solar Geoengineering: The Case for an International Non-use Agreement
(Wiley Blackwell, 2022-01-14)Solar geoengineering is gaining prominence in climate change debates as an issue worth studying; for some it is even a potential future policy option. We argue here against this increasing normalization of solar geoengineering ... -
Housing Microfinance and Housing Financialisation in a Global Perspective
(Routledge, 2021-11-28)The application of microfinance to the provision, improvement or adaptation of housing—‘housing microfinance’—is an increasingly significant area of practice and research interest. Housing microfinance has proliferated, ... -
Introduction: Feminist Protests and Politics in a World in Crisis
(Routledge, 2021-12-07)Welcome to Gender & Development’s special double issue on Feminist Protests and Politics in a World in Crisis. This double issue was produced during a global pandemic that has triggered a deep economic crisis and an ... -
High Reliability Knowledge Networks: Responding to Animal Diseases in a Pastoral Area of Northern Kenya
(Routledge, 2022-01-10)How can reliability be generated and sustained in the face of uncertainty? This question is explored by examining knowledge networks among pastoralists and others in northern Kenya, emerging in response to a highly variable ... -
Providing Social Assistance and Humanitarian Relief: The Case for Embracing Uncertainty
(Wiley, 2021-12-21)Motivation Social assistance and humanitarian relief in disaster response increasingly overlap, especially where recurrent crises and persistent conflicts prevail. In such situations, distinctions between risk and uncertainty ... -
The Politics of Taxing Multinational Firms in a Digital Age
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2021-12-17)Taxing multinationals is politically difficult because of the structural power of mobile firms within the global economy, and this structural power is expected to increase in the digital age. Recently however there has ... -
Visible Outside, Invisible Inside: the Power of Patriarchy on Female Protest Leaders in Conflict and Violence-affected Settings
(Routledge, 2021-12-07)The literature on women’s participation in public protests and movements shows that even when they are prominent actors within these, most women are excluded from the male-dominated decision-making spaces within which ... -
Enabling Tax Bargaining: Supporting More Meaningful Tax Transparency and Taxpayer Engagement in Ghana and Sierra Leone
(Wiley Online Library, 2021-05-01)Motivation While there is increasing evidence that taxation can contribute to greater government responsiveness and accountability, such positive outcomes are not guaranteed. If the environment does not enable tax bargaining, ... -
Governing Procurement of Renewable Electricity Amid Power Sector Reforms
(Oxford Policy Management, 2021-11)Renewable energy procurement (REP) is gaining increasing importance globally as a policy instrument in driving energy diversification and sustainable development agendas, yet little is known about the institutional dynamics ... -
Expanding Social Protection Coverage with Humanitarian Aid: Lessons on Targeting and Transfer Values from Ethiopia
(2021-10)While social protection programs have multiplied over the last two decades across sub-Saharan Africa, these co-exist alongside humanitarian assistance in many places, calling for better integration of assistance delivered ... -
Improving Adolescents’ Food Choices: Learnings from the Bhalo Khabo Bhalo Thakbo (“Eat Well, Live Well”) Campaign in Bangladesh
(ENN, 2021-11)This article details the co-design, implementation and early evaluation results of an initiative for promoting the consumption of nutritious foods in adolescents. The initiative involved school and community activities, ... -
Historicising Global Nutrition: Critical Reflections on Contested Pasts and Reimagined Futures
(BMJ, 2021-11-12)The COVID-19 pandemic has provoked a range of economic shocks, food systems shocks, public health crises and political upheavals across the globe, prompting a rethink of associated global systems. Prepandemic anticolonial ... -
“The Door has Opened”: Moving Forward with Menstrual Health Programming in Bangladesh
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021-10-25)Purpose: In Bangladesh, as elsewhere, menstruation is surrounded by stigma, silence, and shame. Despite being a critical part of women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), it remains significantly ... -
Effectiveness of Cash-plus Programmes on Early Childhood Outcomes Compared to Cash Transfers Alone: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis in Low- and Middle-income Countries
(PLOS, 2021-09-28)Background: To strengthen the impact of cash transfers, these interventions have begun to be packaged as cash-plus programmes, combining cash with additional transfers, interventions, or services. The intervention’s ... -
Rural Youth in Southern Nigeria: Fractured Lives and Ambitious Futures
(SAGE, 2021)This article draws on recent research (2017–20) into the livelihoods and imagined futures of rural youth in four communities in southern Nigeria. The research involved observations, sex-segregated focus group discussions ... -
Unplanned but Well Prepared: A Reinterpreted Success Story of International Agricultural Research, and its Implications
(SAGE, 2021-09-14)A recent study found that adoption rates of improved chickpea varieties were above 90 per cent in Andhra Pradesh, India. In this paper, we use a novel perspective to reconstruct and attribute how this outcome came about. ... -
Superweed Amaranth: Metaphor and the Power of a Threatening Discourse
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2021-09-09)This paper analyses the use of metaphor in discourses around the “superweed” Palmer amaranth. Most weed scientists associated with the US public agricultural extension system dismiss the term superweed. However, together ... -
Introduction to the Handbook: Navigating the Complex and Dynamic Landscape of Participatory Research and Inquiry
(Sage Publishing, 2021-09-04)This SAGE Handbook presents contemporary, cutting-edge approaches to participatory research and inquiry. It has been designed for the community of researchers, professionals and activists engaged in interventions and action ... -
Agricultural Commercialisation and Changing Labour Regimes in Zimbabwe
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-08-03)This paper explores the emerging labour regimes and the consequences for agricultural commercialisation across multiple land-use types in post land reform Zimbabwe. The livelihoods of farmworkers, including those still ... -
Climate Change and Agrarian Struggles: an Invitation to Contribute to a JPS Forum
(Informa UK Limited, 2021-08-06)This essay introduces and invites contributions to a new Journal of Peasant Studies Forum on ‘climate change and critical agrarian studies’. Climate change is inextricably entwined with contemporary capitalism, but how the ...