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Agricultural Knowledge Networks in Northern Ghana
(Michigan State University, 2018)Farmers, researchers and extension officers in Northern Ghana encounter productivity problems, such as striga, acidity, hardpan and bochaa (a Dagbani word denoting low productivity). We undertook a mainly qualitative study ... -
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 ... -
The Pathway toward a Net-Zero-Emissions Future
(Elsevier, 2019-07-25)The UK’s commitment to zero carbon by 2050 and the preceding Climate Emergency Declaration represent a change to policy. More significantly, they represent a change to the narrative by centering attention on the catastrophic ... -
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 ... -
Beyond Technical Fixes: Climate Solutions and the Great Derangement
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-07-01)Climate change research is at an impasse. The transformation of economies and everyday practices is more urgent, and yet appears ever more daunting as attempts at behaviour change, regulations, and global agreements confront ... -
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 ... -
The New Politics and Geographies of Scarcity
(Elsevier, 2019-05)Scarcity is a dangerous idea and has long been a totalising discourse in resource politics and mainstream economics. A large body of work has critiqued the naturalisation of scarcity in discourses of environmental change, ... -
Graduating Out of Poverty Across Generations: Unpacking Children’s Well‐being Trajectories in Burundi
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2019-06-09)Graduation model interventions represent a new wave of anti‐poverty programming that seeks to offer a sustainable pathway out of poverty. An expanding evidence base points towards positive economic outcomes at household ... -
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, ... -
Policy Implementation Under Stress: Central-Local Government Relations in Property Tax Administration in Tanzania
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019-01-15)Purpose: Inter-organisational cooperation in revenue collection has received limited attention in the tax administration literature. Recent experiences from Tanzania offer a unique opportunity to examine opportunities and ... -
Digital Access is not Binary: The 5'A's of Technology Access in the Philippines
(Wiley, 2019-02-08)Online political participation has been presented as a possible solution to declininglevels of trust in traditional politics. However, the most marginalised communities areoften the least connected and participate least ... -
Impact of an Innovative Financing and Payment Model on Tuberculosis Patients’ Financial Burden: is Tuberculosis Care More Affordable for the Poor?
(2019-03-24)Background: In response to the high financial burden of health services facing tuberculosis (TB) patients in China, the China-Gates TB project, Phase II, has implemented a new financing and payment model as an important ... -
Linking Energy Access, Gender and Poverty: A Review of the Literature on Productive Uses of Energy
(Energy Research & Social Science, 2019-07)This article reviews the empirical literature about gender and productive uses of energy, focusing on electricity, to answer three research questions: do men and women obtain different benefits from the Productive Use of ... -
Can China Lead in Multilateral Environmental Negotiations? Internal Politics, Self-Depiction, and China’s Contribution in Climate Change Regime and Mekong Governance
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2019-02-19)The impacts of China’s intensified efforts to engage in regional and global environmental governance is widely noted and debated. With rapidly increasing economic and political influence, China has been gradually changing ...