STEPS Centre News
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- Manifesto calls for re-think on how we tackle poverty, The Guardian, 16 June 2010
- Science for the poor, Nature blog, 15 June 2010
- Book series: First title, Avian Influenza, now available
Books in our Pathways to Sustainability series are available to order on the Earthscan website with 20% off List Price. The titles include Avian Influenza, Dynamic Sustainabilities (April 2010), and Epidemics, Rice Biofortification (out in June 2010).
Earthscan: Pathways to Sustainability series
Ian Scoones on Responding to Pandemic Threats - STEPS water and sanitation research featured in an article entitled Water Flows, in the Spring 2010 edition of Society Now
- Erik Millstone is interviewed on food security in piece entitled Social Studies in the Sunday Times supplement, Environment, Sustainability and the Food Supply Challenge. 18 April 2010
- Science, technology and innovation is central to social and economic progress Julia Day on Commonwealth Week, 10 March 2010.
- Blog: Peri-urban futures and sustainability Reflections on a workshop in Delhi, 8 February 2010
- Climate change and you Video of Melissa Leach talking about climate change and development ahead of COP15
- Climate change and you Featuring STEPS water and sanitation research
- Food Sustainability: Modified opinions Erik Millstone's comments at a Royal Society of Chemistry debate reported in The Guardian's leader column, 4 Dec 2009
- The STEPS Symposium '09 focussed on the New Manifesto project. All the video vox op interviews, presentations, blogs and photos from the event are on the Manifesto website.
- Our Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto project now has its own microsite, loaded with 13 new Working Papers, a wiki-timeline and other materials: www.anewmanifesto.org
- The STEPS water team held an event at World Water Week in Stockholm in August, using case studies from our peri-urban work in Delhi and Community-Led Total Sanitation.
Blog from World Water Week in Stockholm
Photos from World Water Week
Podcast of STEPS session at World Water Week
- New! Nature article: Africa's biotechnology battle -Scoones & Glover
- Podcast: GM Crops and the Global Food Crisis event, June 10
- Photos from GM Crops event in Parliament
- Our new Biotechnology Research Archive has launched along with a new paper and briefing on Bt Cotton by Dominic Glover
- The lessons of swine flu. Comment piece by Ian Scoones in the Guardian, 10 May 2009, with a longer piece on the blog
- STEPS work featured in Eldis Health reporter, 10 March 2009
- Reflections on the World Water Forum, March 2009, from the STEPS water team blogging from Istanbul
- Four new STEPS Working Papers on the political economy of avian flu
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Hope and change for global citizens? As President-Elect Obama becomes President Obama, Institute of Development Studies director Lawrence Haddad explores what this means for global justice
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How inclusive is knowledge? The Hindu covers the STEPS Knowledge Society debates, 11 January 2009
- Knowledge Society debate comes to town. The Times of India. 3 January 2009
- Know can do Time Out Bangalore covers the Knowledge Society debates, 26 December 2009
- Three new presentations from Andy Stirling are available on our Slideshare site - The Direction of Innovation, Measuring Cultural Diversity and the Dynamics of Sustainability.
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Community Led Total Sanitation As the International Year of Sanitation came to a close, the CLTS conference highlighted this innovative way of mobilising communities to completely eliminate open defecation.
Blog from the conference
Photos from the CLTS conference - Lessons of Zimbabwe. Mahmood Mamdani writes about Ian Scoones' IDS and PLAAS project on land reform in the London Review of Books, 4 December 2008
- Zimbabwe: Agriculture still key to recovery Ian Scoones quoted in Financial Gazette, Zimbabwe, 6 December 2008
- New book launched for Bamako 2008: Melissa Leach and Ian Scoones have written a piece for Global Forum Update on Research for Health Volume 5, entitled Health dynamics, innovation and the slow race to make technology work for the poor. Gerry Bloom has contributed a piece entitled Health markets and future health systems; innovation for equity.The book will launched at the Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health in Bamako, Mali, 17-19 November 2008
- New publication - Social-ecological resilience and socio-technical transitions: critical issues for sustainability governance, STEPS Working Paper 8 (pdf 763kb) a new STEPS Working Paper by Adrian Smith and Andy Stirling. Only available online to download for free
- New project - Innovation, Sustainability, Development: a New Manifesto The STEPS Centre is launching a major new project aiming to further links between innovation, science and development that are more equitable and sustainable.
- Francis X. Johnson, Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute kicks off the autumn 2008 STEPS Centre Seminar series on Biofuels, Climate and Development: Emerging Issues and Challenges. For his presentation, a podcast, blog and photos see the STEPS seminar page
- Safety is just the start if we want good regulation
STEPS member Adrian Ely writes for "Food Ethics", the magazine of the Food Ethics Council, on the regulation of genetically modified foods. Drawing on and extending upon work which focussed on the European food safety governance system (carried out with a team also including STEPS members Andy Stirling and Erik Millstone).
- Sanitation Scandal - the priorities for World Water Week 2008
- Watch a clip or the full-length video of Geoff Oldham's STEPS Centre Seminar on the Sussex manifesto and its aftermath
Clip (YouTube)
Full-length Seminar (blip.tv)
- Risking regulatory capture at the UK's Food Standards Agency? (pdf 144kb) Erik Millstone writes for The Lancet with Tim Lang, 12 July 2008
- Ian Scoones talks to Veterinary Times, UK, about the 'Veterinary Science, transboundary disease and market access' project: Taking Steps to Fairer Trade page 1 / page 2 / page 3
More about this project
- Avian'flu - the politics and policy processes of a global response. Read about a new project supported by the FAO and affiliated to STEPS epidemics work.
- Lunch with The Lancet (56kb). Melissa Leach, director of the STEPS Centre, in conversation with the Lancet's Priya Shetty.
Vol 371, June 21 2008
- From Precaution to Robustness: in governance of technological vulnerability (on Slideshare). See STEPS co-director Andy Stirling's presentation prepared as background to discussion at the workshop on The Vulnerability of Technological Cultures: new directions in research and governance, Maastricjt, 1-3 June 2008
- Kofi Annan back the work of STEPS Centre affiliate, Future Agricultures Consortium Kofi Annan chaired the 'Towards a Green Revolution in Africa' conference in Salzburg
- Avian 'flu: the politics and policy processes of a global responseA new project, affiliated to STEPS, investigating the surveillance and response systems to avian 'flu across four countries in SE Asia - Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. Supported by the FAO (UN Food and Agriculture Organisation) Pro-Poor Livestock Facility as part of a wider set of activities under the DFID funded Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) research initiative.
- New! STEPS Centre briefings The STEPS Centre's work in a digestible format: Our first briefings, covering the STEPS Approach, Dynamics and Governance, are now available to download.
- STEPS video channel: bringing our work to life Watch people involved different aspects of the STEPS Centre's work explain thier views on our YouTube channel. More about our video
- The STEPS Centre's photographs, from our seminars, conferences and work are collected on our Flickr webpage.
- Policy briefings: livestock revolution in southern Africa Our first set of policy briefings, in English and French, covering new options for the beef industry in southern Africa.
- What's the beef? Ian Scoones, STEPS Centre co-director, speaks to Developments magazine about the potential for southern African livestock farmers to help lift themselves out of poverty. More on this project
- Building genuine pathways to a more secure future Melissa Leach writes for the ESRC's The Edge magazine. Spring 2008, Issue 27
- Hard to swallow Melissa Leach talks to New Scientist about vaccine anxiety issues arising from her and James Fairhead's new book on global health
- Can science sustain our world? BBC Radio 4's Material World programme kicked off 2008 by asking STEPS co-director Andy Stirling and three other scientists about the role of science in sustaining and preserving Earth. Listen to the show
- Building partnerships in Argentina Adrian Smith gave a presentation about STEPS and the Rethinking Regulation Project to members of IDRC-Latin America and the Universidad de la Republica in Montevideo, Uruguay on 13 December 2007. The presentation - Caminos sociales, tecnologícos y ambientales hacia la sostenibilidad - formed part of a week-long visit to research partners at Fundacion Cenit in Buenos Aires.
- Accomodating dissent Providing cures for health problems isn't enough, if people's personal or cultural beliefs clash with the scientific approach. Policy-makers must recognize and engage with these objections, Melissa Leach argues in Nature magazine and on the Nature podcast.
Download article as a PDF (77kb)
Listen to the Nature podcast
More about Melissa's new book, Vaccine Anxieties
- No shit! It's World Toilet Day Shit really does matter: 2.6 billion people, 41% of the world’s population, don’t have access to adequate sanitation. Community-Led Total Sanitation practitioners share some examples of New approaches to the global sanitation crisis. Plus...
Join in the World Toilet Day debate on the blog
STEPS water and sanitation research
Liquid Dynamics: Challenges for sustainability in water & sanitation
Podcast: the water and sanitation crisis
More news
- China - the dynamics of future health systems STEPS member Gerry Bloom talk to Real Health News about his work in China
- Guardian Weekly podcast talks to Melissa Leach Download the podcast from the Guardian Weekly website or listen to the podcast direct (MP3 28.7MB)
- Buzzwords & fuzzwords: the power of sustainability
- Just Published: STEPS' first set of Working Papers
- Knowledge, Power and Politics: Leach's Linacre lecture
- Building inclusive citizenship and democracies: id21 Focus
- A message for new UK International Development Secretary
- Podcast for World Water Day 2007
- STEPS and Practical Action seminar
STEPS in the news
Find out what the media have been saying about STEPS and what STEPS has been saying in the media
Towards a Green Revolution in Africa conference, Salzburg, April 08
- BBC World Service (1)
- BBC World Service (2)
- International Herald Tribune
- New Agriculturalist
- Reuters Africa
- The Guardian
- AllAfrica.com (1)
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- AllAfrica.com (3)
- New Scientist
- The Guardian world news podcast, UK: Ian Scoones speaks about the food crisis
Veterinary Science, Transboundary Animal Disease and Market Access workshop, Pretoria, South Africa, April 08
- IRIN, Africa: Beefing up for a Revolution
- The Herald, Zimbabwe: Beef Industry Under the Spotlight
- New Era, Namibia: VCF Hampers Market Access
- Sunday News, Zimbabwe: Commodity trade to improve beef exports
- Landbou Weekblad, South Africa: Afrika uit vleisrevolusie geboelie?
- Lanbou Weekblad, South Africa: Oorgrens dieresiektes bekyk
- New Agriculturist, UK: 'My Perspective' by Dr Babagana Ahmadu
- Developments magazine, UK: What's the Beef?
- Veterinary Times, UK: Taking Steps to Fairer Trade page 1 / page 2 / page 3
- AllAfrica.com
- Reuters Alertnet
- Plus coverage in The Citizen, South Africa; Farmer's Weekly, South Africa; Financial Mail, South Africa
General STEPS Centre coverage
- March 2010: Science & Technology Daily (China): "Innovation, Sustainability, Development Manifesto" will be published this year (pdf 280kb)
- Nature article: Africa's biotechnology battle -Scoones & Glover
- Digging for Hope in Land Reform Ian Scoones talks to Inter Press Service, Johannesburg, about land reform in Zimbabwe
- Risking regulatory capture at the UK's Food Standards Agency? (pdf 144kb) Erik Millstone writes for The Lancet, with Tim Lang
- Lunch with The Lancet (56kb). Melissa Leach, director of the STEPS Centre, in conversation with the Lancet's Priya Shetty.
Vol 371, June 21 2008 - Melissa Leach writes on haemorrhagic fevers for Wellcome History (pdf 70kb) May 2008
- Building genuine pathways to a more secure future
Melissa Leach writes for the ESRC's The Edge magazine, Spring 2008, Issue 27 - Water, the ethics of efficiency Lyla Mehta writes for Food Ethics magazine about whether our food is too thirsty. Spring 2008 (pdf 2MB)
- Hard to Swallow: Melissa Leach talks to New Scientist about her work on vaccine anxeties
- New Agriculturist: Farmer First Revisited Podcast
- New Agriculturist: Programme for African radio stations (Farmer First Revisited is fourth item)
- Can science sustain our world? BBC Radio 4's Material World asks STEPS co-director Andy Stirling and three other scientists about the role of science in sustaining and preserving Earth (3.01.08).
- Accomodating dissent. Melissa Leach writes for Nature on vaccination
- Melissa Leach talks about vaccination dissent on the Nature podcast
- Lagging behind: Linda Waldman writes for the Guardian on the House of Lords asbestos-related disease ruling
- Gerry Bloom interviewed in Real Health News about his work in China (pdf 1,380kb)
- Foot & mouth: Erik Millstone writes for the Guardian
- Erik Millstone talks about biotechnology crops and small farmers to CNN's Principal Voices
- Village Voice: The Guardian interviews Melissa Leach about putting local knowledge first, her passion for anthropology and the STEPS Centre.
- Path-finder: Andy Stirling, co-director of the STEPS Centre, interviewed in The Engineer magazine
- Steps towards better development - Mark Tran writes about the launch of the STEPS Centre on Education Guardian online
- Science & development centre launched - ResearchResearch
- Making big ideas possible - Ian Scoones talks to CNN.com's Principal Voices about grassroots technology
- Making Technology Work for the Poor - Melissa Leach speaks to the Guardian
- First class news - the Guardian covers STEPS PhD courses
- Rattling the food chain: STEPS member Erik Millstone interviewed about taking on the agri-food industry
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