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KNOTS Team Linking technological change in health, agriculture and environment to poverty reduction and social justice.
KNOTS Research team
Science and technology offer crucial ways to reduce poverty and increase social justice by improving agricultural livelihoods, tackling ill-health and sustaining the environment.
The KNOTS Team works to understand and influence the institutions and power-knowledge relationships that link technology, ecology and society.
The team connects global debate with local realities through interdisciplinary research, networks and partnerships, as well as teaching and training. It also co-hosts the major new ESRC Centre for Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS).
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05 Jul 10 Rice Biofortification: Lessons for Global Science and Development
A new book questions the ability of biofortification to solve micronutrient deficiency in the developing world – and reveals alternative lessons from the interdisciplinary scientific enquiry that biofortification represents.
14 Jun 10 A Manifesto to Make Innovation Deliver for Development
The STEPS Centre launches 'Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto', arguing that out-of-date innovation policy is undermining unprecedented opportunities for development aid to improve the environment and combat global poverty.
08 Jun 10 Politics of the Global Land Grab
The Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC) has issued a call for papers in advance of its international workshop on ‘Global Land Grabbing’, which will be held at IDS in April 2011.
Events
STEPS Conference 2010: Pathways to Sustainability
Dates: 23 Sep 2010 - 24 September 2010
For more details on the conference, including a call for participation, background and draft programme, please visit the STEPS Centre website. Dates: 23-24 Sept 2010 at IDS.
For more details on the conference, including a call for participation, background and draft programme, please visit the STEPS Centre website. Dates: 23-24 Sept 2010 at IDS.
Latest Team Publications »
- Dry, S and Leach, L (2010) Epidemics: Science, Governance and Social Justice, London: Earthscan
- Brooks, S (2010) Rice Biofortification: Lessons for Global Science and Development, London: Earthscan
- Scoones, I. (2010) Avian Influenza: Science, Policy and Politics, London: Earthscan
- Leach M, Scoones, I and Stirling, A (2010) Dynamic Sustainabilities: Technology, Environment, Social Justice, London: Earthscan
- Waldman, L. (2009) '‘Show me the Evidence’: Mobilisation, Citizenship and Risk in Indian Asbestos Issues', IDS Working Paper 329, Brighton: IDS
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