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Uncertainty in Climate Science: Extreme Weather Events in India
(Economic & Political Weekly, 2018-08-04)In May 2018, multiple extreme weather events claimed scores of lives, damaged property and brought public life to a standstill in parts of India. In the aftermath of these events, a blame game ensued with some assigning ... -
The Antimonies of Nature and Space
(Sage Journals, 2018-05)Maria, Irma, Harvey, Katrina – these have become more than names. They represent several of the most recent hurricanes that have devastated communities across North America and the Caribbean. As nature–society encounters, ... -
Medium-Scale Commercial Farms in Africa: the Experience of the ‘Native Purchase Areas’ in Zimbabwe
(Cambridge University Press, 2018-07)Across Africa there has been a growth in medium-sized farms, including in Zimbabwe following the land reform of 2000. What are the prospects of such farms driving new forms of agricultural commercialization? In this article ... -
Social Protection and the World Food Programme
(World Food Programme, 2018-01)WFP commissioned this Occasional Paper from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) to examine the relationship between food security, nutrition and social protection and to identify WFP’s potential contribution. -
Gendered (In)Security in South Sudan: Masculinities and Hybrid Governance in Imatong State
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-02-28)Despite the end of the civil war in 2005, many people in South Sudan continued to experience a deep sense of insecurity due to the many different types of violent conflict in the country. This sense of insecurity is ... -
World Disasters Report 2014 – Focus on Culture and Risk
(International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2014-10-16)This year, the World Disasters Report takes on a challenging theme that looks at different aspects of how culture affects disaster risk reduction (DRR) and how disasters and risk influence culture. The report asks, for ... -
‘These Streets Are Ours’: Mumbai’s Urban Form and Security in the Vernacular
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-02-16)This article contributes to the growing literature on the spatial dynamics of urban violence in the developing world. It highlights the dialectic between urban form, violence and security provision as vernacular in nature, ... -
Invisible power and visible everyday resistance in the violent Colombian Pacific
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-03-10)This article presents an action research process which opened up dialogues about power, citizenship and agency among social activists and peacebuilding groups in the violent context of urban Buenaventura, Colombia. Adopting ... -
Introduction: Security in the Vernacular and Peacebuilding at the Margins; Rethinking Violence Reduction
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-02-22)This article introduces a Peacebuilding special issue on rethinking security, peacebuilding and violence reduction in the light of Sustainable Development Goal 16 on ‘promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable ... -
Black Sands, Green Plans and Vernacular (In)securities in the Contested Margins of South-Western Madagascar
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-02-22)This article explores a contradiction at the heart of the environmental security–development nexus by bringing conceptual and political logics of environmental security into critical dialogue with vernaculars of security ... -
Returning Home after Civil War: Food Security and Nutrition among Burundian Households
(The Journal of Development Studies, 2018)This paper investigates the food security and nutritional status of formerly displaced households (HHs). Using the 2006 Core Welfare Indicator Survey for Burundi we compare their food intake and their level of expenses ... -
Prevalence, Economic Contribution, and Determinants of Trees on Farms across Sub-Saharan Africa
(Elsevier, 2017)Trees on farms are often overlooked in agricultural and natural resource research and policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. This article addresses this gap using data from the Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys ... -
Narratives of Scarcity: Framing the Global Land Rush
(ScienceDirect, 2018-06-09)Global resource scarcity has become a central policy concern, with predictions of rising populations, natural resource depletion and hunger. The narratives of scarcity that arise as a result justify actions to harness ... -
The Influence of Proximity to Market on Bean Producer Prices in Nicaragua
(Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2017-01-19)Transport costs are an important determinant of smallholder welfare in developing countries. In particular, transport costs influence the prices that smallholders receive for their produce. We propose a simple way of ... -
The Effect of Value Chain Interventions for Staple Crops: Evidence from Small-Scale Farmers in Nicaragua
(The Journal of Development Studies, 2017-12-26)This paper quantitatively assesses the effect of value chain development projects on market linkages of small-scale farmers of a staple crop and agricultural income. We focus on Nicaraguan bean producers participating in ... -
Transitions and Trajectories in the Build‐Up of Innovation Capabilities: Insights from the Global Value Chain Approach
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2011-02-24)Building up innovation capabilities is a process but much research on this topic remains static. This paper shows how Martin Bell has helped researchers to move from models to trajectories and understand the transitions ... -
Bureaucratic Manoeuvres and the Local Politics of Climate Change Mitigation in China and India
(Wiley Online Library, 2018-05-19)This article explores how strategies of thinking and working politically are used by agencies within developing country governments to influence wider government agendas. It uses research on climate change mitigation in ... -
Ethical and Methodological Challenges in Large Qualitative Participatory Studies
(SAGE, 2018-12)Participatory research studies utilizing qualitative data drawn from large, diverse samples appear increasingly common in the social sciences, particularly in international development. This reflects demand for participatory ... -
The Need to be Governed: Governance and Violence in Conflict Contexts
(EPS Publishing for Economists for Peace and Security, 2018)This article analyses the relationship between governance and violence in light of the World Development Report 2017 on Governance and the Law. The article discusses the approach taken by the Report to link governance and ... -
Static Analysis of Technical and Economic Energy-Saving Potential in the Residential Sector of Xiamen City
(Elsevier, 2018-01)Based on a household energy use survey, this paper explores the technical and economic potential of residential energy savings in a Chinese city, Xiamen. The survey adopted a similar questionnaire used by the U.S. EIA's ...