Ian Scoones

Ian Scoones is a professorial fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, and the director of the ESRC STEPS Centre at Sussex.

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Insights

Cattle herds settle on village fields.

La grande muraille verte pour le Sahel: commencer par des solutions locales

Insight, 04 February 2021

Cattle herds settle on village fields.

The Sahelian Great Green Wall: start with local solutions

Insight, 04 February 2021

Participatory community mapping and community land protection can yield tangible results for poor and vulnerable populations (Photo: Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko)

Next steps to strengthen global land governance

Insight, 15 May 2016

Hundreds of power-tillers from China lie unused in Ethiopia. They can be used to plow, power a water-pump, and generate electricity, but low sales were thought to be caused by a lack of technical information, showing how China's role in African agriculture must be researched (Photo: IFPRI-IMAGES, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Chinese engagement in African agriculture is not what it seems

Insight, 06 April 2016

Publications

G02030.pdf

Learning from experiments in deliberate democracy: an e-forum on participatory processes for policy change (PLA Notes 46)

01 April 2003

G02038.pdf

Participatory processes for policy change: reflections on the Prajateerpu e-forum (PLA Notes 46)

01 April 2003

9224IIED.pdf

PLA Notes 46: Participatory Processes for Policy Change

01 April 2003

G01273.pdf

Participatory Processes for Policy Change: reflections on the Prajateerpu e-forum

01 January 2002

G01299.pdf

Participatory environmental policy processes: experiences from North and South (PLA 40)

01 February 2001

Dynamics & Diversity: Soil fertility and farming livelihoods in Africa

01 January 2001

7399IIED.pdf

Soil Nutrient Budgets and Balances: What use for policy?

01 January 1999

7407IIED.pdf

Policies for Soil Fertility Management in Africa. A Report Prepared for the Department for International Development

01 January 1999

Sustaining the Soil: Indigenous soil and water conservation in Africa

01 January 1996

7354IIED.pdf

Sustaining the Soil: Indigenous soil and water conservation in Africa

01 January 1996

6021IIED.pdf

Participatory Learning and Action: A trainer's guide

01 January 1995

6135IIED.pdf

Hidden Harvest: The value of wild resources in agricultural systems - A Project Summary

01 January 1995

7317IIED.pdf

Living with Uncertainty: New directions for pastoral development in Africa. Overview paper of the workshop on new directions in African range management

01 January 1994

6001IIED.pdf

Beer and Baskets: The economics of women's livelihoods in Ngamiland, Botswana

01 January 1994

7282IIED.pdf

Rethinking Range Ecology: Implications for rangeland management in Africa

01 January 1992

6006IIED.pdf

Hidden Harvest: Wild Foods and Agricultural Systems. A Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography, The

01 January 1992