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Transformations to Sustainability: Combining Structural, Systemic and Enabling Approaches
(Elsevier, 2020-01-22)The imperatives of environmental sustainability, poverty alleviation and social justice (partially codified in the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs) call for ambitious societal transformations. As such, few aspects ... -
Farming Within a Dual Legal Land System: An Argument for Emancipatory Food Systems Planning in Accra, Ghana
(Elsevier, 2020-03)Contestation over land is a central element of urban food systems. This paper examines how Ghana’s dual legal land system affects urban farmers. Situated within the “emancipatory planning” discourse, the paper investigates ... -
Introduction: the Accountability Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities. Learning from Brazil and Mozambique
(CEBRAP, 2019-05-01)Inequality is a key political issue of our times. It has political consequences, fuelling conflict and raising legitimacy challenges for regimes around the world, in democratic and non‑demo‑ cratic settings alike. At the ... -
Understanding the Impacts of Outdoor Air Pollution on Social Inequality: Advancing a Just Transition Framework
(Taylor and Francis, 2019-11-14)Outdoor air pollution is a major environmental risk that caused over 4.2 million premature deaths worldwide in 2016. In this article, we investigate how groups with lower social-economic status are disproportionally affected ... -
Receiving Social Assistance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Negating Shame or Producing Stigma?
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-11-04)Despite the centrality of shame and stigma within research on welfare in high-income countries, these issues only exist within the periphery of rapidly expanding practice in and research on social assistance in low- and ... -
Means, Motives and Opportunity: Determinants of Community Health Worker Performance
(BMJ, 2019-10-23)The performance of community health workers (CHWs) typically depends on the interaction between their motivation (their intent to achieve personal and organisational goals) and the constraints that they face in doing so. ... -
Aligning Evidence Generation and Use Across Health, Development and Environment
(Elsevier, 2019-08-01)Although health, development, and environment challenges are interconnected, evidence remains fractured across sectors due to methodological and conceptual differences in research and practice. Aligned methods are needed ... -
Mapping Differential Vulnerabilities and Rights: ‘Opening’ Access to Social Protection for Forcibly Displaced Populations
(SpringerOpen, 2019)In recent years, forcibly displaced populations have attracted enormous media attention as an increasing number of disasters and political conflicts push more and more people to move away from their homes and seek refuge ... -
Agricultural Investments and Hunger in Africa Modelling Potential Contributions to SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
(Elsevier Ltd., 2019-04)We use IFPRI’s IMPACT framework of linked biophysical and structural economic models to examine developments in global agricultural production systems, climate change, and food security. Building on related work on how ... -
Socioecological Systems and Forest Landscape Restoration
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-09)Social and ecological systems are in constant interaction. Focusing on both systems and their interactions provides a more balanced way of addressing forest landscape restoration (FLR). In this chapter, a range of forest ... -
Young People and Land in Zimbabwe: Livelihood Challenges After Land Reform
(Routledge, 2019-08-08)This article explores the livelihood challenges and opportunities of young people following Zimbabwe’s land reform in 2000. The article explores the life courses of a cohort of men and women, all children of land reform ... -
Impact of an Innovative Tuberculosis Financing and Payment Model on Health Service Utilization by Tuberculosis Patients in China: Do the Poor Fare Better than the Rich?
(BMC, 2019-06-11)Tuberculosis (TB) prevalence is closely associated with poverty in China, and poor patients face more barriers to treatment. Using an insurance-based approach, the China-Gates TB program Phase II was implemented between ... -
Street-Level Diplomacy and Local Enforcement for Meat Safety in Northern Tanzania: Kowledge, Pragmatism and Trust
(BMC, 2019-07-03)With increasing demand for red meat in Tanzania comes heightened potential for zoonotic infections in animals and humans that disproportionately affect poor communities. A range of frontline government employees work to ... -
Rethinking Technological Change in Smallholder Agriculture
(Sage Journals, 2019-07-22)The concept of technology adoption (along with its companions, diffusion and scaling) is commonly used to design development interventions, to frame impact evaluations and to inform decision-making about new investments ... -
State Building, Nation Making and Post-Colonial Hydropolitics in India and Israel: Visible and Hidden Forms of Violence at Multiple Scales
(Elsevier, 2019-07-25)This article shows how both state building and nation making processes have intensified the sense of national appropriation of water and how water bodies, landscapes, and infrastructures became an integral part of national ... -
Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience: Global Lessons from the Margins
(Springer, 2019-07-25)This short report describes the PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience: Global Lessons from the Margins) project, its objectives and early implementation. PASTRES investigates the principles inspiring the strategies ... -
Linking Social Rights to Active Citizenship for the Most Vulnerable: the Role of Rights and Accountability in the ‘Making’ and ‘Shaping’ of Social Protection
(The European Journal of Development Research, 2019-07-08)Social protection has the potential to provide a key interface between states and citizens. We consider how the institutional framing and design of social protection can be adapted from top-down forms of provision to forms ... -
Power and Powerlessness in an Appalachian Valley – Revisited
(Taylor and Francis Online, 2019-05-07)With the rise of Trump support in rural Appalachia – the coal mining, mountainous region in the heartland of the eastern United States – media and other commentators have rushed to explain this conservative politics in ... -
Advocacy Coalitions and the Transfer of Nutrition Policy to Zambia
(Oxford Academic, 2019-03-26)Stunted growth in children and multisectoral action to address it are dominant ideas in the international nutrition community today, and this study finds that these ideas are increasingly evident over time in nutrition ... -
Nutrition Transition in Zambia: Changing Food Supply, Food Prices, Household Consumption, Diet and Nutrition Outcomes
(Springer, 2019-02-21)The nutrition transition literature has generally drawn on epidemiologic and demographic changes to make its argument, because in many cases broader data are not available on the drivers of nutrition change. Going further, ...
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