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• 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
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• 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 (pdf 473kb). 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

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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)
• AllAfrica.com (2)
• 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

• 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 (pdf 77kb)
• 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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