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States of Power: Energy Imaginaries and Transnational Assemblages in Norway, Nepal and Tanzania
(Elsevier, 2020-09)Support to energy, particularly hydropower, has formed an important element of many donor programmes. How have such interventions shaped the emergence of particular energy imaginaries in the countries engaged with? ‘Energy ... -
Resource Warfare, Pacification and the Spectacle of ‘Green’ Development: Logics of Violence in Engineering Extraction in Southern Madagascar
(Elsevier, 2020-08)Bringing political ecology's concern with the critical politics of nature and resource violence into dialogue with key debates in political geography, critical security studies and research on the geographies and phenomenology ... -
Modelling the Global Economic Consequences of a Major African Swine Fever Outbreak in China
(Springer Nature, 2020-04-17)African swine fever is a deadly porcine disease that has spread into East Asia where it is having a detrimental effect on pork production. However, the implications of African swine fever on the global pork market are ... -
Power, Participation and their Problems: a Consideration of Power Dynamics in the Use of Participatory Epidemiology for One Health and Zoonoses Research
(Elsevier, 2020-02-27)The use of Participatory Epidemiology in veterinary research intends to include livestock keepers and other local stakeholders in research processes and the development of solutions to animal health problems, including ... -
The Role of Graduation Programming in Promoting Early Childhood Development: an Overview of the Evidence
(Journal of the British Academy, 2020-03-25)It is widely understood that poverty undermines early childhood development (ECD). In turn, poor ECD reinforces intergenerational transmission of poverty. Comprehensive economic strengthening and social protection programmes, ... -
Identifying the Most Effective Essential Medicines Policies for Quality use of Medicines: A Replicability Study Using Three World Health Organisation Data-sets
(PLOS ONE, 2020-02-06)Suboptimal (irrational, incorrect, inappropriate) use of medicines is widespread, wasteful, and causes poor patient outcomes including anti-microbial drug resistance [1–9]. Interventions to improve quality use of medicines ... -
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 ... -
Value Chain Governance, Power and Negative Externalities: What Influences Efforts to Control Pig Diseases in Myanmar?
(Springer Nature, 2019-11-22)Livestock diseases are examples of negative externalities that affect livelihoods and health of poor people across the world. We investigate how the governance and power relationships along a value chain can contribute to ... -
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 ... -
Debating Empowerment: Men’s Views of Women’s Access to Work in Public Spaces in Pakistan-Administered Kashmir
(Taylor and Francis, 2019-11-06)In the aftermath of the 2005 earthquake that struck Pakistan-administered Kashmir an unprecedented number of development actors arrived in the region. Their impact influenced men’s perceptions of change in the gendered ... -
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 ... -
Pastoralists Without Pasture: Water Scarcity, Marketisation and Resource Enclosures In Kutch, India
(White Horse Press, 2019-09-01)Scarcity and uncertainty loom large over the landscape of Kutch, an arid to semi-arid district in western India, where pastoralism has been practised for generations. Despite its clear potential to tackle the dryland ... -
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 ... -
Agricultural Investments and Hunger in Africa Modelling Potential Contributions to SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
(Elsevier Ltd., 2018-12-01)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 ...