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Introduction: Enacting Peace Amid Violence: Nonviolent Civilian Agency in Violent Conflict
(Brill, 2023-09-29)Worldwide, civilians experiencing violence make agential choices about how they interact with conflict landscapes. This special issue assembles contributions that specifically deepen our understanding of nonviolent civilian ... -
Rigour, Timeliness, and Trade-offs in Research: Experience From India’s Swachh Bharat Mission
(Routledge, 2023-10)This article presents lessons learnt from the evolution and usage of rapid action learning methods developed to support the Swachh Bharat Mission – Gramin (the Clean India Mission – Rural) in India. The Mission, started ... -
Economics for an Uncertain World
(Elsevier, 2023-10-11)Uncertainty, where we do not know the likelihood of future events, dominates our world. This article examines how economics as a profession and discipline can address uncertainty. From Frank Knight to John Maynard Keynes ... -
Bringing Together Urban Systems and Food Systems Theory and Research is Overdue: Understanding the Relationships Between Food and Nutrition Infrastructures Along a Continuum of Contested and Hybrid Accessastructures along a continuum of contested and hybrid access
(Springer Link, 2023-10-13)Urban dwellers’ food and nutritional wellbeing are both dependent on infrastructure and can be indicative of wider wellbeing in urban contexts and societal health. This paper focuses on the multiple relationships that exist ... -
The Place of Religious Inequalities Within International Development and Humanitarian Response Frameworks: Lessons from Iraq
(Elsevier, 2023)Within the international development and humanitarian arenas no one disagrees with the language and aspirations of inclusion, protection, rights and equality. Yet, most development framings – policy and operational – have ... -
Breastfeeding and Infant Care as ‘Sexed’ Care Work: Reconsideration of the Three Rs to Enable Women’s Rights, Economic Empowerment, Nutrition and Health
(2023-10-11)Women’s lifelong health and nutrition status is intricately related to their reproductive history, including the number and spacing of their pregnancies and births, and for how long and how intensively they breastfeed their ... -
Rethinking Policies for Pastoralists – Governing the Rangelands
(CSIRO, 2023-08-14)Policies and governance arrangements are relevant in shaping livelihoods in the pastoral regions of the world. Institutions and rules that enable access to land, markets and investment for pastoralists and those that ... -
Key Issues Affecting the Inclusion of Alt Text in Scholarly PDF Publications
(Brill, 2023-09-08)Alternative (alt) text descriptions for images in digital publications provide comparable information for people who cannot effectively see the visuals. They are relied upon by people who are blind or who have a moderate ... -
The Knowledge Politics of Genome Editing in Africa
(University of California Press, 2023-09-15)How is the promise of crop genome editing viewed by scientists working with or aspiring to work with the technology, by development experts seeking to mold public perceptions and policy attitudes toward genome editing, and ... -
Siloed Discourses: a Year-long Study of Twitter Engagement on the Use of CRISPR in Food and Agriculture
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-08-22)Gene editing technologies are emerging as powerful tools for agricultural development, spurring both hopes and concerns in society. To understand emerging discourses and coalitions around the role of CRISPR gene editing ... -
Unsuccessful Implementation of the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines in Low Income Countries: The Case of Ethiopia
(Sweet and Maxwell, 2023-07)Much international technical assistance is directed towards increasing the capacity of tax authorities in low-income countries to understand and effectively implement the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines, and thus retain ... -
Fringe Heroines: Situated Struggles of Women Scientists in Brazilian Agriculture
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-08-02)Feminist scholarship regards the Western scientific revolution and twentieth-century agricultural modernization as patriarchal endeavors and technoscientific regimes as entangled in societal interests and politics. In ... -
Describing Adolescents with Disabilities’ Experiences of COVID-19 and Other Humanitarian Emergencies in Low- and middle-income Countries: a Scoping Review
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2022-09-06)Background: The COVID-19 pandemic and other humanitarian emergencies exacerbate pre-existing inequalities faced by people with disabilities. They experience worse access to health, education, and social services, and ... -
Inclusive Early Childhood Development and Education in Kenya: What do Parents, Teachers and Children Understand, Perceive and Experience?
(The Critical Institute, 2023-07)This paper describes qualitative research nested in a larger intervention programme developing and piloting a model of disability inclusive early childhood development and education (ECDE) in two districts in Kenya for ... -
COVID-19 and Informal Workers in Asian Cities: Impact, Response, and Implications for Urban Recovery
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-06-15)As COVID-19 took hold across borders in 2020 and 2021, more than 1.6 billion informal workers were estimated by the United Nations to have been impacted by mobility restrictions and other “lockdown” measures to tackle the ... -
Adolescents with Disabilities and Caregivers Experience of COVID-19 in Rural Nepal
(Frontiers, 2023-06-09)COVID-19 caused severe disruption to the lives of adolescents. UNICEF estimates that school closures affected more than 1.6 billion learners, with those in low- and middle-income countries having the least access to remote ... -
Business Licencing Reform and Gender Equality: Evidence from Indonesia
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-06-14)Business environment reform targets inadequate business regulations, intending to remove constraints to business investment, enabling growth and job creation, and creating opportunities for international business to ... -
Applying the ‘Candidacy’ Model to Understand Access to Key Nutrition, Food & Health Services in LMIC Contexts: a Qualitative Study in Odisha, India
(Springer, 2023-04-04)In order to make progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 2 – Zero Hunger – we must acquire a better understanding of what continues to hamper achieving food security, particularly in contexts where progress has been ... -
Confronting Uncertainties in Pastoral Areas: Transforming Development from Control to Care
(Berghahn, 2023-06-01)Pastoralists must continuously confront uncertainties, responding to high levels of variability and volatility where the future is unknown. Yet mainstream modernising development in pastoral areas aims to create stability ... -
The Life with Corona survey
(Elsevier, 2022-08)The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis affecting everyone. Yet, its challenges and countermeasures vary significantly over time and space. Individual experiences of the pandemic are highly heterogeneous and its impacts ...