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Information, market creation and agricultural growth

Dr Subramanian Arjunan | 01 November 2012

Recent years have witnessed renewed appreciation that agriculture could play a significant role in the pursuit of millennium development goals. In this context, the role of information dissemination through information and communication technology (i ...

Legislating and implementing welfare policy reforms: what works politically in africa and why?

Professor Jeremy Seekings | 01 November 2012

“just giving money to the poor” through social assistance programmes (including ‘social pensions’, other unconditional grants, conditional cash transfers, and emergency employment programmes) has both passionate advocates and ...

Impact assessment based on self-reported attribution in complex contexts of rural livelihood transformations in africa.

Professor James Copestake | 18 October 2012

How can the impact of development activities intended to benefit poor men, women and children caught up in complex processes of rural transformation best be assessed? the research sets out to develop and evaluate a protocol for impact assessment base ...

Food riots and food rights: the moral and political economy of accountability for hunger

Dr Naomi Hossain | 01 October 2012

The challenge of world hunger is not only about growing more food but about ensuring access to it. How can governments be made more accountable for ensuring access to food? the research addresses this question by comparing two approaches people have ...

Rising powers in african agriculture: are china and brazil bringing new paradigms to agricultural development cooperation?

Professor Ian Scoones | Area & Development Studies | 01 October 2012

The “china and brazil in african agriculture” (cbaa) project will explore the new development cooperation engagements in agriculture across four african countries. The project will examine the politics of aid and investment policy in chin ...

Engaging with uncertainty and risk in agricultural biotechnology regulation: delivering safety and innovation

Professor Joyce Tait | Science & Technology Studies | 01 October 2012

This collaborative project between the esrc innogen centre at the university of edinburgh and syngenta uk will build on each partner’s insights about the current operation of european regulatory and policy processes related to agricultural biot ...

Uk data service

Dr Matthew Woollard | 01 October 2012

The uk data service will provide a "one-stop-shop" for suppliers and users of social science data. Users will come to the ukds website to search for and browse data collections created by a wide range of data suppliers, including government data, dat ...

Harnessing enthusiasm: ecosocialities and citizens as early-warning systems

Dr Hilary Geoghegan | Human Geography | 01 October 2012

Dr hilary geoghegan will explore the social, scientific and technological practices required to harness citizen enthusiasm in developing sustainable citizen science for monitoring tree health. Citizen science is an activity that is becoming increasin ...

Institutional arrangements in land deals in africa: local impacts of global resource scarcity

Dr Ruth Hall | 01 August 2012

Many investors have responded to recent food price hikes and volatile oil prices by acquiring large tracts of african farmland as a new base from which to supply growing markets. In the process, land uses change and existing populations are often dis ...

Which farmer(s) should we target? how do extension approaches influence social learning and spread of agricultural innovations?

Professor Erwin Bulte | 24 July 2012

When promoting new agricultural technologies in developing countries lead farmers, -farmers who implement demonstration plots of a new technology-, learn about the best way to implement the technology and should share this information with others. Wh ...

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Harnessing enthusiasm: understanding what motivates and sustains citizen participation in science

Hilary Geoghegan | 08 May 2013 | Human Geography | Presentation/lecture

Invited departmental seminar introducing my research to human and physical geographers, offering feedback on initial fieldwork on a tree health survey for the public.

Harnessing enthusiasm: citizen science and tree health monitoring

Hilary Geoghegan | 08 May 2013 | Human Geography | Presentation/lecture

Invited presentation of my social science research on citizen science and a uk tree health monitoring survey. Event was part of a tree health and plant biosecurity initiative meeting in york.

Brokering knowledge exchange between scientists and land stakeholders: collaborative learning for a food secure future at the north wyke farm platform

Robert David Fish | 12 March 2013 | Environmental Planning | End of Grant Report

To cite this output: fish, r, (2013) brokering knowledge exchange between scientists and land stakeholders: collaborative learning for a food secure future at the north wyke farm platform esrc end of award report, res-192-22-0158. Swindon: esrc.

North wyke farm platform farming panel

Robert David Fish | 11 March 2013 | Environmental Planning | Board/Council/Panel

A key impact of this activity has the formation of the north wyke farm platform farming panel which is be convened bi-annually to: offer a practical farming perspective on implications and robustness of emerging science finding from the bbsrc platfor ...

Deliberating imperatives for food security

Robert David Fish | 11 March 2013 | Environmental Planning | Seminar/workshop

Presentation on platform ke in the context of food security imperatives - land and food security alliance - "bridging the gaps" seminar, university of exeter 1st february 2013

Flowers in the dust : a photo exhibition on waste-pickers of delhi

Fiona Marshall | 29 January 2013 | Organised event

Photo-exhibition related to the project "pathways for environmental health in transitional spaces: moving between formality and informality". From 15th-18th june, 2012 aman trust in collaboration with all india kachra shramik mahasangh displayed a ph ...

A pathways approach to urban waste management in india

Fiona Marshall | 29 January 2013 | Presentation/lecture

Lecture at jawaharlal nehru university.

Ambiguous evidence : implications of uncertainty for science policy

Andy Stirling | 29 January 2013 | Seminar/workshop

Speaker at seminar

Edge of sustainability : why rio+20 mustn't ignore people on city fringe

Fiona Marshall | 28 January 2013

Article for the guardian poverty matters blog.

Environmental health project workshop

Fiona Marshall | 28 January 2013 | Organised event

Workshop related to the project "pathways for environmental health in transitional spaces: moving between formality and informality".

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Zimbabwe land reforms: myths and surprises

Feature | 07 May 2013 | General public, International, Policymakers, Press/media

A study supported by the esrc and the department for international development presents some surprising results of the controversial zimbabwean land reform - and challenges five particular myths.

Safe food in a global system

Feature | 22 March 2013 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools

The challenges of food security, global food systems and our dependence on food imports is explored in a new report based on an esrc public policy seminar.

Climate change downgrade in the recession

Feature | 04 March 2013 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools

As we enter climate week, poll results have revealed that public concern about environmental issues and climate change has sunk to a 20-year low since the beginning of the global financial crisis.

Getting pig meat to the market

Feature | 25 January 2013 | Business, General public, Press/media, Schools

The current model for supplying pig meat to uk consumers is ineffective and beset by a 'trader mentality' from leading supermarkets, and would benefit from more integrated ownership where companies have a vested interest throughout the supply chain, ...

Gm crops ten years on: hope, hype and reality

Feature | 26 January 2011 | Academic, Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools

The divisive debate about gm rages on, but how has this controversial technology served us in the last ten years?

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School kids digest the future of food

Press Release | 09 March 2009 | General public, Press/media, Schools

Locally produced and organic food is best for us and the environment. True or false? more than 90 secondary school children will be chewing over that question during a one day multi-activity event organised as part of the economic and social research ...

Biodiversity passes the taste test and is healthier too

Press Release | 14 January 2009 | Press/media

Cattle and sheep grazed on natural grasslands help maintain biodiversity and produce tastier, healthier meat, according to a study funded by the economic and social research council (esrc).