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Poverty Knowledge and Policy Processes in Uganda: Case Studies from Bushenyi, Lira and Tororo Districts

Reconfiguring the Indian: land-labour relations in the postcolonial Andes

Reconstructing policy narratives: the Green Revolution story

Published by: IDS

The Green Revolution today is the stuff of legend. The literature of the green revolution can never be monocultural. The diversity of perspectives from which it has been analyzed is impressive.

Rights Talk and Rights Practice: Challenges for Southern Africa

Published by: IDS

“Rights-based approaches” are increasingly seen as a core component of development by donors, NGOs and governments alike (see, for...

Rural Development, Institutional Change and Livelihoods in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: A Case Study of Mdudwa Village

Published by: IDS

Mdudwa village in the Eastern Cape is an example of a remote, rural village in a former homeland area. Such villages have been subject to a wide array of development interventions, political and administrative reforms since the free elections of 1994.

Science, Policy and Biotechnology Regulation

Published by: IDS

If biotechnology regulatory policies are to gain broad-based support – and so be implementable – a rethinking of the ways risk and...

Só para o Inglese ver’ – The Policy and Practice of Tenure Reform in Mozambique

Social constructions of Bt Cotton

Published by: IDS

Social Designs: Tank Irrigation Technology and Agrarian Transformation in Karnataka, South India

Published by: Orient Longman

This book is based on a central argument that tank irrigation technology is shaped as a result of power relations in a particular historical, agrarian and social context. This technology as a matter of fact institutionalises a particular pattern of resource utilisation that favours only some users, and discriminates against some others.

Social Function of Property, Movement of the Landless (MST), and the Judicial Field in Brazil