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Access to pastures in Northeastern Turkey: Auctions, bans, and interrupted pathways

Turkey hosts many mobile pastoral communities, most of which have become sedentary over the last few centuries. Even the most well-known mobile pastoralist groups still operating in the country often face obstacles to their movements, with consequences for livelihoods, animals and...

M. Fatih Tatari

2 June 2023

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China and the fourth industrial revolution: a call for collaborative research

Recent blogs on this site have called for academic collaboration and policy coordination with China to address global challenges including climate change and biodiversity loss, pandemics and overuse of anti-microbials, and building sustainable food systems. Here we argue for the importance of...

Jennifer Holdaway, Affiliated Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies, University of Leiden and Co-Director, Forum on Health, Environment and Development (FORHEAD)
Sarah Cook, Associate Researcher, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of Witwatersrand and IDS Honorary Associate

2 June 2023

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Citizen Science: lessons in pandemic preparedness from Sierra Leone

Our research explored how communities responded to two epidemics in Sierra Leone. Here we highlight some of our findings, emphasising the importance of taking note of what communities themselves infer from their experiences of epidemic diseases. Governments talk a good deal about pandemic...

Paul Richards & 3 others

1 June 2023

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“Boğatepe Charter of Futures”: Learnings from the exhibition and speculations from pastures

The leading artist of the project, also a shepherd from the pastoralist community of Northern Spain, Fernando Garcia Dory, installed on the wall the plants brought from pastures of Boğatepe, along with lyrics of a local artistic verbal expression, bayatı or mani. Boğatepe Environment and...

M. Fatih Tatari

26 May 2023

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Learning from a people’s agenda for pandemic preparedness

Now that Covid-19 has officially become an established health issue, and no longer a public health emergency of international concern, this is an important time to act, learn lessons and collate knowledge gained from our experiences. Together with 50 researchers from 25 countries, across six...

25 May 2023

Opinion

Knowledge translation in the Global South: A language perspective

Anywhere in the world, knowledge translation (KT) is facilitated through a process of communicating messages to an audience, who will ultimately use that information to inform their own opinions and actions. However, the way that information is perceived, digested, discussed, and passed on is...

23 May 2023

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Drought and resilience: some lessons from Kenya

I recently wrote an article for The Conversation together with Tahira Mohamed on the drought situation in Kenya. We’d spent a few weeks in Isiolo and Marsabit counties exploring ‘resilience projects’ alongside local responses by pastoralists. The disconnect was extreme and many people...

22 May 2023