A5058545794- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- African studies and sociopolitical issues
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- African history and culture studies
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- International Development and Aid
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Animal Diversity and Health Studies
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- African history and culture analysis
- Rural development and sustainability
- Legal Issues in South Africa
- Biotechnology and Related Fields
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Genetically Modified Organisms Research
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Agricultural risk and resilience
University of Sussex
2015-2024
Institute of Development Studies
2015-2024
Ahmedabad University
2023
Institute of Development Studies
2004-2022
Harvard University Press
2022
Refugee Council
2022
Cornell University
2022
Imperial College London
2022
Pathways Behavioral Services
2022
Wageningen University & Research
2022
Livelihoods perspectives have been central to rural development thinking and practice in the past decade. But where do such come from, what are their conceptual roots, influences shaped way they emerged? This paper offers an historical review of key moments debates about livelihoods, identifying tensions, ambiguities challenges approaches. A number core identified, centred on need inject a more thorough-going political analysis into centre livelihoods perspectives. will enhance capacity...
Across the world, ‘green grabbing’ – appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends is an emerging process deep growing significance. The vigorous debate on ‘land already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called upon to justify appropriations food or fuel as large tracts acquired not just ‘more efficient farming’ ‘food security’, but also ‘alleviate pressure forests’. In other cases, however, green agendas core drivers goals grabs whether linked biodiversity...
Over the past several years, convergence of global crises in food, energy, finance, and environment has driven a dramatic revaluation land ownership. Powerful transnational national ...
The contributions to this collection use the tools of agrarian political economy explore rapid growth and complex dynamics large-scale land deals in recent years, with a special focus on implications big for property labour regimes, processes structures accumulation. first part introductory essay examines perspective. First we continuities contrasts between historical contemporary grabs, before examining core underlying debate around large- versus small-scale farming futures. Next, unpack...
▪ Abstract This review asks the question: What new avenues of social science enquiry are suggested by ecological thinking, with its focus on nonequilibrium dynamics, spatial and temporal variation, complexity, uncertainty? Following a emergence “new ecology” highlighting contrasts earlier “balance nature” perspectives, work emerging from anthropology, political ecology, environmental economics, debates about nature culture examined. With some important exceptions, much associated popular...
Political reactions 'from below' to global land grabbing have been vastly more varied and complex than is usually assumed. This essay introduces a collection of ground-breaking studies that discuss responses range from various types organized everyday resistance demands for incorporation or better terms into deals. Initiatives in response deals involved local transnational alliances the use legal extra-legal methods, brought victories defeats. The relevance political discussed light theories...
Leach, M., J. Rockström, P. Raskin, I. Scoones, A. C. Stirling, Smith, Thompson, E. Millstone, Ely, Arond, Folke, and Olsson. 2012. Transforming innovation for sustainability. Ecology Society 17(2): 11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04933-170211
ABSTRACT Over the past decade, there has been a dramatic increase in large‐scale land deals, often from public lands to hands of foreign or domestic investors. Popularly referred as ‘global grab’, new acquisitions are drawing upon, restructuring and challenging nature both governance government. In Introduction this special issue, we argue for an analysis deals that draws upon insights political ecology, cultural politics agrarian studies illuminate micro‐processes transaction expropriation...
Climate change research is at an impasse. The transformation of economies and everyday practices more urgent, yet appears ever daunting as attempts behaviour change, regulations, global agreements confront material social-political infrastructures that support the status quo. Effective action requires new ways conceptualizing society, climate environment current struggles to break free established categories. In response, this contribution revisits important insights from social sciences...
Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, making science technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world rapid, interconnected change environments, societies economies, globalised, fragmented governance arrangements. Yet despite growing international attention investment, policy attempts often fail. Why is this, what can done about it? How might we understand address...
COVID-19 is proving to be the long awaited 'big one': a pandemic capable of bringing societies and economies their knees. There an urgent need examine how - as health development crisis unfolded way it did consider possibilities for post-pandemic transformations rethinking more broadly. Drawing on over decade research epidemics, we argue that origins, unfolding effects require analysis addresses both structural political-economic conditions alongside far less ordered, 'unruly' processes...
A new political moment is underway. Although there are significant differences in how this constituted different places, one manifestation of the rise distinct forms authoritarian populism. In opening paper JPS Forum series on 'Authoritarian Populism and Rural World', we explore relationship between these politics rural areas around world. We ask transformations have contributed to deepening regressive national politics, shape shaped by politics. propose a global agenda for research, debate...
This introduction frames key questions on biofuels, land and agrarian change within political economy, sociology ecology. It identifies explains big that provide the starting point for contributions to this collection. We lay out some of emerging themes which define politics revolving around global (re)configurations; agro-ecological visions; conflicts, resistances diverse outcomes; state, capital society relations; mobilising opposition, creating alternatives; continuity. An engaged economy...