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Nutrition and the Governance of Agri-Food Systems in South Asia: A Systematic Review
(Elsevier Ltd., 2019-01)Malnutrition is a multicausal challenge that requires multisectoral responses to make comprehensive and sustainable progress, over the long term. How is agriculture and the wider agri-food system positioned within the ... -
Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia: What Do We Know, and What Have We Learned?
(Elsevier Ltd., 2019-01)Despite significant improvements over recent decades, rates of undernutrition remain high in South Asia, with adverse impacts on morbidity and mortality. Overweight/obesity, among children and adults, is now an additional ... -
SDGs, Inclusive Health and the Path to Universal Health Coverage
(Disability and the Global South, 2017)The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of goals designed to improve the social, economic and well-being of all, while maintaining global and environmental sustainability. Health is one of the 17 goals, and ... -
‘The Phone is My Boss and My Helper’ – A Gender Analysis of an mHealth Intervention with Health Extension Workers in Southern Ethiopia
(Oxford University Press, 2018-12-01)Mobile health (mHealth) provides health services and information via mobile technologies, including mobile phones. There is considerable optimism in mHealth’s potential to overcome health systems’ deficiencies to ensure ... -
Can ICT-Enabled Real-Time Data Contribute to Adaptive Management in Development Programming?
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-12-20)This article aims to explore whether ICT-enabled real-time data (RTD) systems can help to improve the operationalisation of adaptive management of international development programmes. Using a qualitative multi-method ... -
Food Policy Special Issue: Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia
(Elsevier Ltd., 2019-01)Special Issue: Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia; Guest Editors: Stuart Gillespie, RV Bhavani, Alan Dangour, Nigel Poole and Mara van den Bold. Articles include: Leveraging agriculture for nutrition in ... -
Nigeria’s E-Waste Management: Extended Producer Responsibility and Informal Sector Inclusion
(Annex Publishers, 2018-12)This paper explores the emerging role of the private sector and public-private partnerships for e-waste management in the developing world. We use a combination of two conceptual frameworks, the triple bottom line approach ... -
Informal Taxation in Sierra Leone: Magnitudes, Perceptions and Implications
(Oxford University Press, 2018-10-24)In low-income countries, citizens often pay ‘taxes’ that differ substantially from what is required by statute. These non-statutory taxes are central to financing both local public goods and maintaining informal governance ... -
China's Challenge to International Tax Rules and the Implications for Global Economic Governance
(Oxford University Press, 2018-11-01)Twentieth century institutions of global economic governance face a profound challenge adapting to the rise of emerging markets and, especially, China's rise. This is especially the case for the international tax regime, ... -
Did Demonetisation Accelerate Financial Inclusion?
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2018-11-17)The claim that removing cash would improve financial access for the poor has become a fallback argument for demonetisation, despite notebandi failing to achieve its other objectives. Like many other arguments made for ... -
Moving Beyond the Binary: Gender-based Activism in Pakistan
(Warwick University, 2018-11-27)This article challenges the binary framework within which women in Pakistan have been viewed, by political actors, the state, and more broadly as well, as either ‘secular/feminist/godless/Westernised’ or ‘authentic/ Isl ... -
Culture/ Religion/ Tradition vs Modern/ Secular/ Foreign
(Warwick University, 2018-11-27)This article examines the binary of culture/religion/tradition and modern/secular/foreign and its impact on women’s human rights struggles in particular in northern Nigeria. This binary is commonly perpetuated by state and ... -
Travelling Critique: Anti-imperialism, Gender and Rights Discourses
(Warwick University, 2018-11-27)The use and abuse of rights-based approaches to furthering gender justice has been the subject of much debate and contestation in feminist scholarship. This paper engages with the feminist anti-imperialist critique of ... -
The Pitfalls of Disentangling Women's Agency from Accountability for Gender Equality Outcomes
(Warwick University, 2018-11-27)The representation of Middle Eastern women in Western scholarship in particular has been critiqued in post colonialist and feminist scholarship for its racist underpinnings embedded in broader colonialist constructs. This ... -
Women, Feminism and Politics in Post Revolution Tunisia
(Warwick University, 2018-11-27)During periods of flux generated by Tunisia's transition to democracy, all classes of women found the ‘political opportunities’ to push for change even if they did not necessarily share the same ambition or dream. The ... -
Challenging Binaries to Promote Women's Equality
(Warwick University, 2018-11-27)In this issue we are calling for a new interpretive framework that recognises the multiple genealogies that have contributed to binary constructs of the Western/secular versus the authentic/religious; takes into account ... -
Zones of Peace and Local Peace Processes in Côte d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone
(Routledge, 2018-07-18)This article examines the issue of peace and restraint within ongoing conflicts. While the vast majority of the literature on civil wars in Africa concentrates on drivers of conflict and instances of violence, there are ... -
Procedural Justice in Value Chains Through Public–Private Partnerships
(Elsevier, 2018-03)This paper is about making agricultural value chains work for smallholder farmers, and the way that governments can achieve this aim through public–private partnerships (PPPs). Applied to agricultural value chains, PPPs ... -
Equity and sustainability in the Anthropocene: a social–ecological systems perspective on their intertwined futures
(Cambridge University Press, 2018-10-09)It is no longer possible nor desirable to address the dual challenges of equity and sustainability separately. Instead, they require new thinking and approaches which recognize their interlinkages, as well as the multiple ... -
Binary Framings, Islam and Struggle for Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh
(Warwick University, 2018-11-27)In this paper, I investigate how binary framings of women’s identity have influenced struggles for women’s rights and the interpretations of the relationship between Islam and women’s empowerment in Bangladesh. These binary ...