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Understanding the Nourishment of Bodies at the Centre of Food and Health Systems – Systemic, Bodily and New Materialist Perspectives on Nutritional Inequity
(Elsevier, 2019-03-04)That nutritional inequalities continue to proliferate at a global level requires new insight from all disciplines, given their formation at the intersection of broader inequities in food, health and other systems. This ... -
The Microeconomics of Violent Conflict
(Elsevier B.V., 2018-10-25)In our brief review, we take stock of the emergence, in the last decade, of the “microeconomics of violent conflict” as a new subfield of empirical development economics. We start by de-bunking common misperceptions about ... -
From Policy Transfer to Mutual Learning?: Political Recognition, Power and Process in the Emerging Landscape of International Development Cooperation
(Novos estudos CEBRAP, 2017-01-27)The economic and geopolitical shifts of recent years have forced the oecd-dac member countries to offer greater recognition to the development cooperation activities of the BRICS and other rising powers, who claim to follow ... -
Transgender Employment and Entrepreneurialism in Vietnam
(Taylor and Francis Online, 2018-03-14)This article shares insights from research into the economic opportunities and obstacles that Vietnamese transgender men and women face in a fast-growing economy mainly composed of small and medium-sized enterprises. The ... -
Does Revolutionary Politics Reconfigure Islamist Women’s Agency Organizationally? The Case of the Muslim Sisters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (1928-2013)
(University of Warwick, 2017-06-27)For the first time in eighty years, one of the oldest and most important religious movements striving to establish an Islamic state, the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt reached the apex of political power between 2011-2013, ... -
Small Wars in Marsabit County: Devolution and Political Violence in Northern Kenya
(Taylor and Francis Online, 2017-06-15)When the elections of 2013 devolved budgetary and legislative powers to 47 counties in Kenya, there was nationwide relief when they passed off peacefully. The new county governments settled down to bargaining over local ... -
A Political Settlements Lens onto Egypt’s Critical Junctures and Cyclic Violence (2011–2014)
(Taylor and Francis Online, 2017-06-15)While there is a copious body of literature explaining Egypt’s political trajectory post-Mubarak through the lens of democratisation and transition theory, this paper argues that by using a political settlements lens, a ... -
Christians Coping with Insecurities in the Aftermath of the Arab Revolts: Converging and Diverging Strategies
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‘Killing a Mosquito with a Hammer’: Al-Shabaab Violence and State Security Responses in Kenya
(Peacebuilding, 2017-02-16)Networked, transnational forms of violence pose a significant threat to peace and security in a number of sub-Saharan African countries. In recent years, Kenya has witnessed an expanding number of attacks involving Al-Shabaab ... -
Chinese State Capitalism? Rethinking the Role of the State and Business in Chinese Development Cooperation in Africa
(Elsevier, 2016-02-13)The growing involvement of the Chinese state and business in Africa has generated significant debate about China’s Africa strategy and the benefits for Africa’s development. What is the nature of Chinese state capitalism ... -
How the International Media Framed ‘Food Riots’ During the Global Food Crises of 2007–12
(Springer, 2018-05-18)This paper explores the framing of ‘food riots’ in the international media during the global food crisis period of 2007–12. This is an important issue because the international media’s overly simplistic treatment of ... -
How Much Voice for Borrowers? Restricted Feedback and Recursivity in Microfinance
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2017-09-11)This paper studies the governance of microfinance and asks about its recursivity: whether the system is responsive to changes prompted by feedback from borrowers or not. It draws on Hirschmann's heuristic of exit and voice ... -
Contesting Financial Inclusion
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2017-12-26)This contribution critically assesses financial inclusion as an intervention in the development space. It examines the turn from microfinance to financial inclusion, with the introduction of new actors and practices; new ... -
Can Agricultural Research and Extension be used to Challenge the Processes of Exclusion and Marginalisation?
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-10-10)This paper examines if and how agricultural researchers and extension officers can see, understand and change processes that exclude some people and influence marginalisation. We used participatory action research (PAR) ... -
Power Dynamics and Integration in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Learning Lessons for Transdisciplinary Research in Cambodia
(Elsevier Ltd., 2019-04)For nexus approaches to be successful in their analysis and influence, integration dynamics must be understood in the context of larger power dynamics. Current analysis barely take this dimension into account. In this ... -
Irrigating Zimbabwe After Land Reform: The Potential of Farmer-Led Systems
(Water Alternatives, 2019)Farmer-led irrigation is far more extensive in Zimbabwe than realised by planners and policymakers. This paper explores the pattern of farmer-led irrigation in neighbouring post-land reform smallholder resettlement sites ... -
South-South Relations in African Agriculture: Hybrid Modalities of Cooperation and Development Perspectives from Brazil and China
(Routledge, 2019)South-South cooperation is becoming ever more important to states, policy-makers and academics. Many Northern states, international agencies and NGOs are promoting South-South partnerships as a means of ‘sharing the burden’ ... -
Redistributive Preferences and Protests in Latin America
(SAGE Journals, 2019-02-12)This article analyzes the role of individual redistributive preferences on protest participation. The article focuses on Latin America, a region that has experienced substantial protests and demonstrations in the last ... -
How do the State’s Organisational Capacities at the Micro- And Macro-Levels Influence Agriculture-Nutrition Linkages in Fragile Contexts?
(Elsevier Ltd., 2019-01)This paper systematically reviews the evidence on what capacities the state requires to leverage agriculture for nutrition in fragile contexts, maintaining a focus on state in South Asia (especially India). It uses the ... -
Principles of Innovation to Build Nutrition-Sensitive Food Systems in South Asia
(Elsevier Ltd., 2019-01)Innovations within global food systems have contributed to the predicament known as the triple burden of malnutrition – the co-existence of hunger and micronutrient deficiency with the diseases of overnutrition, such as ...