Recent STEPS events

To try and make our events as accessible as possible, we produce material for many of them - reports, speaker presentations, audio, video and blogs - to enable people who were not able to join us on the day, to keep in touch with what happened.

Kofi Annan backs our work on a 'Green Revolution in Africa'

Kofi Annan chaired a new vision for agricultural development in Africa conference, hosted by STEPS affiliate the Future Agricultures Consortium and the Salzburg Global Seminar.
Newsletters, media, photos, blog and more from this event

Transboundary animal disease and market acess: future options for the beef industry in southern Africa

Material from the international workshop, 7-8 April in Pretoria, SA and papers, briefings and information about this 18 month study

Global Uncertainties

the ESRC Festival of Social Science flagship event on 12 March at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. STEPS director Melissa Leach spoke on 'Securing a safer, sustainable and equitable world' and wrote for the ESRC's The Edge magazine. Spring 2008, Issue 27 Building genuine pathways to a more secure future


Global Environmental Change And Food Systems

Oxford University's Environmental Institute conference on Food Security and Environmental Change, 2-4 April event website

Resilience Alliance Conference

STEPS diirectors and members took part in the conference, which themed 'Resilience, Adaption and Transformation in Turbulent Times', 14-17April.

Farmer First Revisited: twenty years on

Farmer First Revisited12-14 December 2007: In 1987 a meeting of 50 social and natural scientists proIved a defining moment in the development of farmer participation in agricultural research.The Future Agricultures Consortium in association STEPS and IDS hosted an international workshop, Farmer First Revisited, to coincide with the 20th anniversary.
Videos, wiki-timeline, podcasts, papers and more

DSA Conference and STEPS Centre Symposium

18-20 September 2007: STEPS Centre Symposium at the DSA Conference The first STEPS Centre Symposium was held alongside the Development Studies Association annual conference 2007 to tie in with the theme of ‘Connecting Science, Society and Development. The event is being held at the Insitute of Development Studies. Find out more about the STEPS sessions at the DSA

Politics and governance in Berlin

19-21 September 2007: Politics and governance in sustainable
socio-technical transitions (pdf 151kb) Schloss Blankensee/Berlin
Third international workshop in series ‘System innovations for sustainable development’ STEPS member Adrian Smith is co-organising in this event

STEPS Launch

25 June 2007: Dr Ian Gibson MP chaired the launch of the STEPS Centre with speakers from Greenpeace, Demos and Practical Action explaining why the work of the STEPS Centre is so vital right now. Presentations, speakers' quotes, press release, the launch in pictures and more

STEPS at the Brighton Festival

22 May 2007: 'Science friction: making science and technology work for the poor.' Veteran BBC environment correspondent Alex Kirby and members of the STEPS team discussed how science and technology can contribute to poverty reduction.

Delivering Public Value from New Technologies

21 May 2007: A joint seminar from STEPS and Practical Action. Focusing on increasing the recognition of the role of technology in human development, this day-long seminar put the emphasis on improving the choice people have about which technologies are developed and how they are diffused.
Read the report and the speaker presentations

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