Rethinking Technological Change in Smallholder Agriculture
Published by: Sage Journals
The concept of technology adoption (along with its companions, diffusion and scaling) is commonly used to design development...
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Published by: Sage Journals
The concept of technology adoption (along with its companions, diffusion and scaling) is commonly used to design development...
Innovations within global food systems have contributed to the predicament known as the triple burden of malnutrition – the...
This report documents the findings of an evaluation study of the impacts of N2Africa, a ten-year ‘research-in-development’ project that aimed to harness nitrogen fixation for the benefit of small-scale farmers of legume crops.
Published by: IDS
Globally, governments, development agencies, and inter-governmental institutions have invested heavily in skills-building interventions...
Published by: IDS
The regulation of biotechnology products at the national and international level inevitably involves private sector companies....
Published by: STEPS Centre
In this paper, we use conceptual insights from two distinct traditions within the social studies of science and technology, namely actor-network theory (ANT) and technography, to explore the relationship between power and the reconfiguration of agricultural practices toward sustainability.
Published by: Taylor & Francis Online
‘Heirloom rice’ is a boundary concept that enables social entrepreneurs to commodify traditional landraces.
Published by: IDS
In 2015, the international community adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to focus development policy globally. The Goals range across diverse fields of public policy from industry, finance and agriculture to education, sanitation, social protection and environmental stewardship.
Published by: IDS
This report documents explores the interactions among three key goals of international development policy and practice, namely reducing inequalities, accelerating sustainability and building secure and inclusive societies.
In this article, we describe an innovative foresight approach, which we used to examine the interactions among three themes that are...