Land degradation, as a threat to smallholders in the tropics, attracts less attention than other
global challenges. In addition, gaps between scientific understandings of land degradation …

It is urgent in science and society to address climate change and other sustainability
challenges such as biodiversity loss, deforestation, depletion of marine fish stocks, global ill …

One billion vulnerable subsistence farmers across the global south depend on risky
livelihoods in need of adaptation to climate change impacts. Simultaneously, their …

The 'modernist'project that has come to dominate food and agricultural policy has failed to
provide sustainable outcomes for many poor people in developing countries. Conventional …

When is the rigorous impact evaluation of development projects a luxury, and when a
necessity? The authors study one high-profile case: the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) …

This paper analyzes the impact of the Millennium Village Project (MVP) in Sauri, Kenya. We
found significant higher agricultural productivity, self-consumption, production margins, and …

Ownership has become one of the key buzz words of international aid business. As a
determinant of commitment to reform or appropriateness of the reform program, ownership …

This paper draws on Slavoj Žižek's critique of ideology in seeking to account for the
persistence and transformability of the neoliberal project. Against understandings of …

Over the past decade there has been much discussion of the challenges posed by rapid
urbanization in the developing world; yet the health of the urban poor, and especially those …

The Millennium Village Project (MVP) has come to embody hope for a new development
path that might succeed where previous efforts have failed. A closer consideration of this …