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Effectiveness of Cash-plus Programmes on Early Childhood Outcomes Compared to Cash Transfers Alone: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis in Low- and Middle-income Countries
(PLOS, 2021-09-28)Background: To strengthen the impact of cash transfers, these interventions have begun to be packaged as cash-plus programmes, combining cash with additional transfers, interventions, or services. The intervention’s ... -
Rural Youth in Southern Nigeria: Fractured Lives and Ambitious Futures
(SAGE, 2021)This article draws on recent research (2017–20) into the livelihoods and imagined futures of rural youth in four communities in southern Nigeria. The research involved observations, sex-segregated focus group discussions ... -
Unplanned but Well Prepared: A Reinterpreted Success Story of International Agricultural Research, and its Implications
(SAGE, 2021-09-14)A recent study found that adoption rates of improved chickpea varieties were above 90 per cent in Andhra Pradesh, India. In this paper, we use a novel perspective to reconstruct and attribute how this outcome came about. ... -
Superweed Amaranth: Metaphor and the Power of a Threatening Discourse
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2021-09-09)This paper analyses the use of metaphor in discourses around the “superweed” Palmer amaranth. Most weed scientists associated with the US public agricultural extension system dismiss the term superweed. However, together ... -
Introduction to the Handbook: Navigating the Complex and Dynamic Landscape of Participatory Research and Inquiry
(Sage Publishing, 2021-09-04)This SAGE Handbook presents contemporary, cutting-edge approaches to participatory research and inquiry. It has been designed for the community of researchers, professionals and activists engaged in interventions and action ... -
Agricultural Commercialisation and Changing Labour Regimes in Zimbabwe
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-08-03)This paper explores the emerging labour regimes and the consequences for agricultural commercialisation across multiple land-use types in post land reform Zimbabwe. The livelihoods of farmworkers, including those still ... -
Climate Change and Agrarian Struggles: an Invitation to Contribute to a JPS Forum
(Informa UK Limited, 2021-08-06)This essay introduces and invites contributions to a new Journal of Peasant Studies Forum on ‘climate change and critical agrarian studies’. Climate change is inextricably entwined with contemporary capitalism, but how the ... -
Firm’s Compliance Behaviour Towards Food Fortification Regulations: Evidence from Oil and Salt Producers in Bangladesh
(Elsevier, 2021-10)Impact of national food fortification programs is contingent on the extent to which there is compliance with national standards. However, this compliance is often sub-optimal and is not consistently measured. One of the ... -
Toward Transformative Climate Justice: An Emerging Research Agenda
(John Wiley & Sons, 2021-08-01)Calls for climate justice abound as evidence accumulates of the growing social and environmental injustices aggravated or driven by climate change. There is now a considerable and diverse literature on procedural, ... -
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 ...
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