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Insights into Smallholder Capacity for Agricultural Commercialisation: Evidence from Four African Contexts
(Springer Link, 2021-07-13)Over the last 15 years, the agricultural economics and development literature has amply highlighted success stories of smallholder farmers in developing countries, illustrating their increased engagement and integration ... -
Basket of Options: Unpacking the Concept
(SAGE, 2021-07-07)How to stimulate technological change to enhance agricultural productivity and reduce poverty remains an area of vigorous debate. In the face of heterogeneity among farm households and rural areas, one proposition is to ... -
Managing Seasonality in West African Informal Urban Vegetable Markets: The Role of Household Relations
(Wiley, 2021-06-15)Seasonality influences African informal agricultural markets, but existing literature inadequately explores its interactions with market actors' social relations and livelihood outcomes. Thus, agricultural commercialisation ... -
Silent Cities, Silenced Histories: Subaltern Experiences of Everyday Urban Violence During COVID-19
(The British Academy, 2021-06-22)The public health containment measures in response to COVID-19 have precipitated a significant epistemic and ontological shift in ‘bottom-up’ and ‘action-oriented’ approaches in development studies research. ‘Lockdown’ ... -
Understanding Regulatory Cultures: The Case of Water Regulatory Reforms in India
(Wiley, 2021-05-27)This article uses the concept of regulatory cultures to understand the (dis)embedding of “independent” water regulation in India. It analyzes the specific case of the Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority and ... -
Beyond Limits and Scarcity: Feminist and Decolonial Contributions to Degrowth
(Elsevier, 2021-05-15)We welcome this opportunity to participate in this important dialogue between political ecology and degrowth. We bring to this debate two issues: (1) perspectives on limits and scarcity, and (2) the histories and knowledges ... -
Transformation as Praxis: Responding to Climate Change Uncertainties in Marginal Environments in South Asia
(Elsevier, 2021-04)This paper provides some of the conceptual and methodological underpinnings being developed in the ongoing TAPESTRY project which is part of the Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) Programme. We debate how the notion ... -
Enclaved or Enmeshed? Local Governance of Oil Finds in Turkana, Kenya
(Elsevier, 2021-05-06)The development of high-value extractive resources in the rural peripheries of sub-Saharan Africa is often viewed as a securitised project separated from society and politics in neighbouring areas. It follows that extractive ... -
“An Unacceptable Surrender of Fiscal Sovereignty”: The Neoliberal Turn to International Tax Arbitration
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-05)The growth of inequality over the past half century is closely connected to the rise of neoliberal policies and institutions, the latter of which shield capital from state actions that might limit wealth accumulation. ... -
Food Systems Summit Brief: Water for Food Systems and Nutrition
(Scientific Group of the UN Food Systems Summit 2021, 2021-05)Access to sufficient and clean freshwater is essential for all life. Water is also essential for food system functioning: as a key input into food production, but also in processing and preparation, and as a food itself. ... -
The Role of the EIB in the Green Transformation
(Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), 2021-04-26)This paper will first examine (in section II) the context in which the European Investment Bank, (EIB) needs to operate, given the major challenges of the European Green transformation, and in the framework ... -
National and Multilateral Development Banks During the 2020 Pandemic: The Role of IADB and CDC During the First Phase of Covid-19
(Municipal Services Project (Kingston), UNCTAD (Geneva) and Eurodad (Brussels), 2020)This chapter focuses on the strategic role played over the first few months after the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic by a Multilateral Development Bank – the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and a National ... -
Matching Risks with Instruments in Development Banks
(Agence française de développement (AFD), 2020-10)This paper explores how development banks should deploy appropriate financial instruments to encourage real economic risk-taking while minimizing financial engineering risks. We distinguish real economic risks from financial ... -
Pathways to Stronger Futures? The Role of Social Protection in Reducing Psychological Risk Factors for Child Development in Haiti
(Elsevier Ltd, 2021-06)It is widely recognised that poverty undermines early childhood development (ECD). In turn, poor childhood development reinforces the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Social protection could break this negative ... -
Of Zinc Roofs and Mango Trees: Tractors, the State and Agrarian Dualism in Mozambique
(Taylor and Francis, 2021-03-11)This paper reviews the latest mechanisation programme by the Mozambican government, asking how it is politically driven and how it shapes and is shaped by agrarian structures. Old ideas about agrarian dualism are reproduced ... -
How Villagers in Central Sierra Leone Understand Infection Risks Under Threat of Covid-19
(PLoSONE, 2020-06-24)Concern has been expressed over how well Africa is prepared to cope with the pandemic of Covid-19. Will rural populations with low levels of education know how to apply community-based infection control? We undertook ... -
COVID-19, Public Authority and Enforcement
(Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2021-10-07)The securitization of health is not a new phenomenon. However, global responses to the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa reveal the extent to which epidemic preparedness and response is now shaped by geopolitical ... -
Crise post-électorale en Côte d’Ivoire et logique de la non-violence en milieu urbain: une illustration à partir des villes de Gagnoa, Guiglo et San Pedro en 2010–11
(Taylor and Francis, 2020-02-27)Les auteurs cherchent à comprendre pourquoi certaines villes clés dans un sens stratégique, symbolique et historique (les villes de Gagnoa, Guiglo et San Pedro) n’ont pas connu de cycle de violence pendant et après la crise ... -
Beyond the Prepositions: Using Power Analysis to Inform Strategies for Social Action
(Taylor and Francis, 2020-12-11)This article reviews longstanding debates about the relationship between power over and power to - often posed as the tension between domination and emancipation. It then turns to several frameworks which integrate these ... -
Beyond the ‘Balance of Nature’: Pastoralists’ Alternative Perspectives on Sustainability
(White Horse Press, 2021-03-01)David Attenborough’s mission to restore the balance of nature in the documentary, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement, is at once inspiring and concerning. What if the balance of nature doesn’t exist? What if this ...
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