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The Quantification of Child Labour by Ghana’s Mass Media: A Missed Opportunity?
(SAGE, 2022-04-27)This article describes how the mass media in Ghana use quantitative information to communicate the prevalence of child labour. During the period 2000–2020, stories about child labour frequently appeared in Ghana’s mass ... -
Chicken or Egg? A Bi‑directional Analysis of Social Protection and Social Cohesion in Burundi and Haiti
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2022-04-06)A limited but growing number of studies point to mixed efects of social protection on social cohesion. Relatively little is known about the role of social cohesion on access to and impact of social protection. Based ... -
Growing from the South in the Seed Market: Grupo Don Mario
(2022-04-22)Purpose: The authors aim to draw lessons for research and policy from an exception(nal) case of a firm's international expansion in the seed market: Grupo Don Mario, a company originally from Argentina that supplies 20% ... -
Hard Work and Hazard: Young People and Agricultural Commercialisation in Africa
(Elsevier Ltd., 2020-04-22)An emerging orthodoxy supports the proposition that the rural economy – built around agriculture but encompassing much more – will serve as sweet spot of employment opportunities for many millions of young people into the ... -
Tobacco Farming Following Land Reform in Zimbabwe: A New Dynamic of Social Differentiation and Accumulation
(Routledge, 2022-04-04)Tobacco has been central to the agrarian economy of Zimbabwe since the early 1900s, when it became the backbone of the new settler economy following colonisation. Since the land reform of 2000, tobacco has taken on a new ... -
Natural Resource Industries as a Platform for the Development of Knowledge Intensive Industries
(Wiley Online Library, 2015-01-13)In the innovation and development literature, natural resources (NR) are generally viewed as a curse for developing nations and NR-based industries as having little potential to innovate and drive long-term growth. This ... -
‘Demonstration Fields’, Anticipation, and Contestation: Agrarian Change and the Political Economy of Development Corridors in Eastern Africa
(Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2020-03-18)In much of Eastern Africa, the last decade has seen a renewed interest in spatial development plans that link mineral exploitation, transport infrastructure and agricultural commercialisation. While these development ... -
Social Accountability and Health Systems’ Change, Beyond the Shock of Covid-19: Drawing on Histories of Technical and Activist Approaches to Rethink a Shared Code of Practice
(BMC, 2022-03-25)Background: Recognition of the value of “social accountability” to improve health systems performance and to address health inequities, has increased over the last decades, with different schools of thought engaging in ... -
Social Science Approaches to Infodemiology: Understanding the Social, Political, and Economic Context of Information
(Sage Journals, 2022-03-11)Embedded within the COVID-19 pandemic is the spread of a new pandemic of information – some accurate, some not – that can challenge the public health response. This has been termed an ‘infodemic’ and infodemic management ... -
La vulnérabilité cumulative face aux défis socio-environnementaux en Côte d’Ivoire
(OpenEdition | VertigO - la revue électronique en sciences de l'environnement, 2021-12)Les études sur la vulnérabilité visent à comprendre les conditions et les expressions d’exposition néfastes aux catastrophes naturelles et/ou aux autres crises (alimentaires, sanitaires, et cetera), dans le but de réduire ... -
It's Not the Market, Stupid: On the Importance of Non-market Economies in Sustainability Transitions
(Elsevier, 2022-03)It has been widely assumed that market mechanisms are central in incentivizing the development of sustainable innovations and that market formation is critical for the diffusion of innovations. We challenge the centrality ... -
Beyond Greed: Why Armed Groups Tax
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2022-02-20)Based on a review of the diverse practices of how armed groups tax, we highlight that a full account of why armed groups tax needs to go beyond revenue motivations, to also engage with explanations related to ideology, ... -
Gender, Global Terror, and Everyday Violence in Urban Pakistan
(Elsevier, 2019-03)We investigate the cross scalar linkages between every day violence and global war on terror in the context of urban Pakistan. We draw upon intensive research undertaken in the twin cities of Rawalpindi/Islamabad and Karachi ... -
Vaccine Anxieties, Vaccine Preparedness: Perspectives from Africa in a Covid-19 Era
(Elsevier, 2022-02-16)Global debates about vaccines as a key element of pandemic response and future preparedness in the era of Covid-19 currently focus on questions of supply, with attention to global injustice in vaccine distribution and ... -
Mining - The Dark Side of the Energy Transition
(Elsevier, 2021-12)The energy transition will significantly increase demand for minerals. This might create new economic opportunities for lower-income countries with resources, but it will also augment local social and environmental problems ... -
What is ‘Conventional’ Agriculture?
(Elsevier, 2022-03)Agriculture faces many challenges. In both public discourse and the scientific literature debates about the future are increasing framed in terms of ‘alternative’ versus ‘conventional’ agriculture. In this paper we critically ... -
The Use of Epic Narratives in Promoting ‘Natural Agriculture’
(SAGE, 2022-02-10)This paper profiles some key promoters of nature-based and natural systems agriculture – Masanobu Fukuoka, Wes Jackson, Jerome Irvin Rodale and Robert Rodale, and Allan Savory. The focus is on ‘narratives with epic elements’ ... -
‘Without Water, There is No Life’: Negotiating Everyday Risks and Gendered Insecurities in Karachi’s Informal Settlements
(SAGE, 2019-04-23)This article provides new insights into the politics of water provisioning in Karachi’s informal settlements, where water shortages and contaminations have pushed ordinary citizens to live on the knife edge of water scarcity. ... -
A Revisit of Farm Size and Productivity: Empirical Evidence from a Wide Range of Farm Sizes in Nigeria
(Elsevier Ltd., 2021-06-04)The relationship between farm size and productivity has been studied extensively in the agricultural and development economics literature. However, most of the documented evidence in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is based on ... -
Ustaads, Shagirds, and the Drudgery and Virtuosity of Breakdowns and Repair
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2020-12-26)Maintenance and repair work constitute an important part of a thriving urban life, in this case, in Karachi, Pakistan. The connection between breakdowns, and repair and maintenance practices is looked at along with evaluating ...
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