The water–energy–food nexus is being promoted as a conceptual tool for achieving
sustainable development. Frameworks for implementing nexus thinking, however, have …

The projected human population of nine billion by 2050 has led to ever growing discussion
of the need for increasing agricultural output to meet estimated food demands, while …

This is an extraordinarily important book. It should become a classic. It is a must for every
development professional. It is a masterly analysis and overview of the evolution and …

Livelihoods perspectives have been central to rural development thinking and practice in the
past decade. But where do such perspectives come from, what are their conceptual roots …

Our world seems entangled in systems increasingly dominated by power, greed, ignorance,
self-deception and denial, with spiralling inequity and injustice. Against a backdrop of …

This paper constitutes a preliminary output of the ODA-funded research programme on
sustainable livelihoods being carried out by the Institutes of Development Studies and the …

Since the seminal works of Malthus and Boserup, scientists have long debated the impact of
population growth and land constraints on the wellbeing of rural people. Today these …

The implementation of SAP and economic liberalisation throughout sub‐Saharan Africa
during the last fifteen years has coincided with the rapid expansion of rural income …

Rapidly changing hydrological conditions under climate change, upstream developments,
and local water infrastructures require transformative changes in water management …

Sustainable Intensification (SI) is a term that has been advanced to capture a concept that
some consider as the 'third paradigm'for global agricultural development. However, the term …