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  1. Small Towns and Land Reform in Zimbabwe

    Article • European Journal of Development Research, December 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ian Scoones

  2. Beyond Technical Fixes: climate solutions and the great derangement

    Article • Climate and Development, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones, Stephen Whitfield, Andrew Newsham

  3. Young people and land in Zimbabwe: livelihood challenges after land reform

    Article • Review of African Political Economy, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  4. Review of The End of Desertification? Disputing Environmental Change in the Drylands by Roy H. Behnke and Michael Mortimore

    Article • Pastoralism Research Policy and Practice, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ian Scoones

  5. Labour after Land Reform: The Precarious Livelihoods of Former Farmworkers in Zimbabwe

    Article • Development and Change, September 2018, Wiley

    Ian Scoones

  6. Medium-scale commercial farms in Africa: the experience of the ‘native purchase areas’ in Zimbabwe

    Article • Africa, July 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Ian Scoones

  7. Narratives of scarcity: Framing the global land rush

    Article • Geoforum, June 2018, Elsevier

    Ian Scoones

  8. Land grabbing

    Article • May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  9. People, Patches, and Parasites: The Case of Trypanosomiasis in Zimbabwe

    Article • Human Ecology, September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ian Scoones

  10. Emancipatory rural politics: confronting authoritarian populism

    Article • The Journal of Peasant Studies, June 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  11. Integrative modelling for One Health: pattern, process and participation

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, June 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  12. One Health for a changing world: new perspectives from Africa

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, June 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  13. Structural drivers of vulnerability to zoonotic disease in Africa

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, June 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  14. Tobacco, contract farming, and agrarian change in Zimbabwe

    Article • Journal of Agrarian Change, April 2017, Wiley

    Ian Scoones

  15. Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change

    Article • The Journal of Peasant Studies, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  16. Livelihoods, Land and Political Economy: Reflections on Sam Moyo’s Research Methodology

    Article • Agrarian South Journal of Political Economy A triannual Journal of Agrarian South Network and CARES, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    Ian Scoones

  17. The Politics of Sustainability and Development

    Article • Annual Review of Environment and Resources, November 2016, Annual Reviews

    Ian Scoones

  18. The Political Economy of Sugar in Southern Africa – Introduction

    Article • Journal of Southern African Studies, September 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  19. Sugar, People and Politics in Zimbabwe’s Lowveld

    Article • Journal of Southern African Studies, September 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  20. The futures of pastoralism in the Horn of Africa: pathways of growth and change

    Article • Revue Scientifique et Technique de l OIE, August 2016, O.I.E (World Organisation for Animal Health)

    Ian Scoones

  21. Zoonotic diseases: who gets sick, and why? Explorations from Africa

    Article • Critical Public Health, May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  22. A New Politics of Development Cooperation? Chinese and Brazilian Engagements in African Agriculture

    Article • World Development, May 2016, Elsevier

    Ian Scoones

  23. Contested Histories

    Article • February 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  24. Global Narratives

    Article • February 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  25. Transforming soils: transdisciplinary perspectives and pathways to sustainability

    Article • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, August 2015, Elsevier

    Ian Scoones

  26. Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa

    Article • June 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  27. Resistance, acquiescence or incorporation? An introduction to land grabbing and political reactions ‘from below’

    Article • The Journal of Peasant Studies, May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  28. The Politics of Green Transformations

    Article • January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  29. Access and Control: Institutions, Organizations and Policy Processes

    Article • January 2015, Practical Action Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  30. Asking the Right Questions: An Extended Livelihoods Approach

    Article • January 2015, Practical Action Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  31. Bringing Politics Back In: New Challenges for Livelihoods Perspectives

    Article • January 2015, Practical Action Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  32. Livelihoods Frameworks and Beyond

    Article • January 2015, Practical Action Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  33. Livelihoods Perspectives: A Brief History

    Article • January 2015, Practical Action Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  34. Livelihoods and Political Economy

    Article • January 2015, Practical Action Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  35. Livelihoods, the Environment and Sustainability

    Article • January 2015, Practical Action Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  36. Methods for Livelihoods Analysis

    Article • January 2015, Practical Action Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  37. Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development

    Article • January 2015, Practical Action Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  38. Zimbabwe's land reform: new political dynamics in the countryside

    Article • Review of African Political Economy, December 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  39. Understanding Environmental Policy Processes

    Article • October 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  40. Introduction: New directions in agrarian political economy

    Article • The Journal of Peasant Studies, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  41. Agricultural Futures

    Article • August 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ian Scoones

  42. Governing Global Land Deals

    Article • October 2013, Wiley

    Ian Scoones

  43. Carbon forestry in West Africa: The politics of models, measures and verification processes

    Article • Global Environmental Change, October 2013, Elsevier

    Ian Scoones

  44. The politics of evidence: A response to Rulli and D'Odorico

    Article • The Journal of Peasant Studies, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  45. Understanding and Managing Zoonotic Risk in the New Livestock Industries

    Article • Environmental Health Perspectives, August 2013, Environmental Health Perspectives

    Ian Scoones

  46. The social and political lives of zoonotic disease models: Narratives, science and policy

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, July 2013, Elsevier

    Ian Scoones

  47. Negotiating New Relationships: How the Ethiopian State is Involving China and Brazil in Agriculture and Rural Development

    Article • IDS Bulletin, June 2013, Institute of Development Studies

    Ian Scoones

  48. New Development Encounters: China and Brazil in African Agriculture

    Article • IDS Bulletin, June 2013, Institute of Development Studies

    Ian Scoones

  49. The politics of evidence: methodologies for understanding the global land rush

    Article • The Journal of Peasant Studies, May 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  50. Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land

    Article • Development and Change, March 2013, Wiley

    Ian Scoones

  51. Innovation Politics Post-Rio+20: Hybrid Pathways to Sustainability?

    Article • Environment and Planning C Government and Policy, January 2013, SAGE Publications

    Ian Scoones

  52. Livelihoods after Land Reform in Zimbabwe: Understanding Processes of Rural Differentiation

    Article • Journal of Agrarian Change, September 2012, Wiley

    Ian Scoones

  53. The new politics of Zimbabwe's lowveld: Struggles over land at the margins

    Article • African Affairs, September 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ian Scoones

  54. Livelihood Change in Rural Zimbabwe over 20 Years

    Article • The Journal of Development Studies, September 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  55. Pastoralism and Development in Africa

    Article • June 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  56. The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals

    Article • The Journal of Peasant Studies, May 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  57. Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature?

    Article • The Journal of Peasant Studies, April 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  58. Environmental Entitlements: Dynamics and Institutions in Community-Based Natural Resource Management

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ian Scoones

  59. Transforming Innovation for Sustainability

    Article • Ecology and Society, January 2012, Resilience Alliance, Inc.

    Ian Scoones

  60. Zimbabwe's land reform: challenging the myths

    Article • The Journal of Peasant Studies, December 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  61. Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Race, Landscape and the Problem of Belonging - By David Hughes

    Article • Journal of Agrarian Change, September 2011, Wiley

    Ian Scoones

  62. The Politics of Seed in Africa's Green Revolution: Alternative Narratives and Competing Pathways

    Article • IDS Bulletin, June 2011, Institute of Development Studies

    Ian Scoones

  63. Pathways to Sustainability: Perspectives and Provocations

    Article • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, May 2011, SAGE Publications

    Ian Scoones, Tania Li

  64. Towards a better understanding of global land grabbing: an editorial introduction

    Article • The Journal of Peasant Studies, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  65. Dynamics and Diversity

    Article • September 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  66. The politics of biofuels, land and agrarian change: editors' introduction

    Article • The Journal of Peasant Studies, September 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  67. A New Manifesto for Innovation, Sustainability and Development – Response to Rhodes and Sulston

    Article • European Journal of Development Research, August 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ian Scoones

  68. Avian Influenza

    Article • August 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  69. Dynamic Sustainabilities

    Article • August 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  70. Governing epidemics in an age of complexity: Narratives, politics and pathways to sustainability

    Article • Global Environmental Change, August 2010, Elsevier

    Ian Scoones

  71. 14. Sustainability

    Article • January 2010, Practical Action Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  72. Contested paradigms of ‘viability’ in redistributive land reform: perspectives from southern Africa

    Article • The Journal of Peasant Studies, January 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  73. Africa's biotechnology battle

    Article • Nature, August 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ian Scoones

  74. The politics of global assessments: the case of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD)

    Article • The Journal of Peasant Studies, July 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  75. Addressing the dynamics of agri-food systems: an emerging agenda for social science research

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, June 2009, Elsevier

    Ian Scoones

  76. 1. Revisiting Farmer First

    Article • January 2009, Practical Action Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  77. Back Matter - Farmer First Revisited

    Article • January 2009, Practical Action Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  78. Farmer First Revisited

    Article • January 2009, Practical Action Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  79. Livelihoods perspectives and rural development

    Article • The Journal of Peasant Studies, January 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  80. From Risk Assessment to Knowledge Mapping: Science, Precaution, and Participation in Disease Ecology

    Article • Ecology and Society, January 2009, Resilience Alliance, Inc.

    Ian Scoones

  81. The Dynamics of Real Markets: Cattle in Southern Zimbabwe following Land Reform

    Article • Development and Change, July 2008, Wiley

    Ian Scoones

  82. Mobilizing Against GM Crops in India, South Africa and Brazil

    Article • Journal of Agrarian Change, April 2008, Wiley

    Ian Scoones

  83. Sustainability

    Article • Development in Practice, August 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  84. The contested politics of technology: biotech in Bangalore

    Article • Science and Public Policy, May 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ian Scoones

  85. Land, Landscapes and Disease: The Case of Foot and Mouth in Southern Zimbabwe

    Article • South African Historical Journal, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  86. Editorial Viewpoint: 'Making science and technology work for the poor'

    Article • World Review of Science Technology and Sustainable Development, January 2007, Inderscience Publishers

    Ian Scoones

  87. Science and Citizens, Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement

    Article • The Canadian Journal of Sociology, July 2006, JSTOR

    Ian Scoones

  88. Opportunistic and conservative pastoral strategies: Some economic arguments

    Article • Ecological Economics, June 2006, Elsevier

    Ian Scoones

  89. Governing Technology Development: Challenges for Agricultural Research in Africa

    Article • IDS Bulletin, April 2005, Institute of Development Studies

    Ian Scoones

  90. Introduction: New Directions for African Agriculture

    Article • IDS Bulletin, April 2005, Institute of Development Studies

    Ian Scoones

  91. Local knowledge and the social shaping of soil investments: critical perspectives on the assessment of soil degradation in Africa

    Article • Land Use Policy, January 2005, Elsevier

    Ian Scoones

  92. Climate Change and the Challenge of Non-equilibrium Thinking

    Article • IDS Bulletin, July 2004, Institute of Development Studies

    Ian Scoones

  93. Understanding policy processes in Ethiopia: a response

    Article • The Journal of Modern African Studies, March 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Ian Scoones

  94. Wildlife management and land reform in southeastern Zimbabwe: a compatible pairing or a contradiction in terms?

    Article • Geoforum, January 2004, Elsevier

    Ian Scoones

  95. From jambanja to planning: the reassertion of technocracy in land reform in south-eastern Zimbabwe?

    Article • The Journal of Modern African Studies, December 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Ian Scoones

  96. Networks of knowledge: how farmers and scientists understand soils and their fertility. a case study from Ethiopia

    Article • Oxford Development Studies, December 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  97. 1. Introduction: Livelihoods in Crisis: Challenges for Rural Development in Southern Africa

    Article • IDS Bulletin, July 2003, Institute of Development Studies

    Ian Scoones

  98. 9. Endpiece: The Politics of Livelihood Opportunity

    Article • IDS Bulletin, July 2003, Institute of Development Studies

    Ian Scoones

  99. Negotiating Environmental Change

    Article • January 2003, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  100. Can Agricultural Biotechnology be Pro-Poor?

    Article • IDS Bulletin, October 2002, Institute of Development Studies

    Ian Scoones

  101. Editorial: Environmental Governance in an Uncertain World

    Article • IDS Bulletin, October 2001, Institute of Development Studies

    Ian Scoones

  102. Preface

    Article • IDS Bulletin, October 2001, Institute of Development Studies

    Ian Scoones

  103. THE SCIENCE OF 'CIVILIZED' AGRICULTURE: THE MIXED FARMING DISCOURSE IN ZIMBABWE

    Article • African Affairs, October 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ian Scoones

  104. Knowledge, power and politics: the environmental policy-making process in Ethiopia

    Article • The Journal of Modern African Studies, March 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Ian Scoones

  105. Precautionary approach to risk assessment

    Article • Nature, November 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ian Scoones

  106. New Ecology and the Social Sciences: What Prospects for a Fruitful Engagement?

    Article • Annual Review of Anthropology, October 1999, Annual Reviews

    Ian Scoones

  107. Perspectives on soil fertility change: a case study from southern Ethiopia

    Article • Land Degradation and Development, May 1999, Wiley

    Ian Scoones

  108. Environmental Entitlements: Dynamics and Institutions in Community-Based Natural Resource Management

    Article • World Development, February 1999, Elsevier

    Ian Scoones

  109. 9. Ecological dynamics and grazing-resource tenure: a case study from Zimbabwe

    Article • January 1999, Practical Action Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  110. Soil nutrient balances: what use for policy?

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, December 1998, Elsevier

    Ian Scoones

  111. Sustaining the Soil: Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Africa

    Article • Geographical Journal, July 1998, JSTOR

    Ian Scoones

  112. Landscapes, fields and soils: understanding the history of soil fertility management in Southern Zimbabwe

    Article • Journal of Southern African Studies, December 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  113. Challenges to Community-Based Sustainable Development: Dynamics, Entitlements, Institutions

    Article • IDS Bulletin, October 1997, Institute of Development Studies

    Ian Scoones

  114. Editorial: Community-Based Sustainable Development: Consensus or Conflict?

    Article • IDS Bulletin, October 1997, Institute of Development Studies

    Ian Scoones

  115. Institutions, Consensus and Conflict: Implications for Policy and Practice

    Article • IDS Bulletin, October 1997, Institute of Development Studies

    Ian Scoones

  116. Methods for Environmental Entitlements Analysis

    Article • IDS Bulletin, October 1997, Institute of Development Studies

    Ian Scoones

  117. The Dynamics of Soil Fertility Change: Historical Perspectives on Environmental Transformation from Zimbabwe

    Article • Geographical Journal, July 1997, JSTOR

    Ian Scoones

  118. Local-Level Valuation of Savanna Resources: A Case Study from Zimbabwe

    Article • Economic Botany, January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ian Scoones

  119. New Challenges for Range Management in the 21st Century

    Article • Outlook on Agriculture, December 1996, SAGE Publications

    Ian Scoones

  120. A model of household decisions in dryland agropastoral systems

    Article • Agricultural Systems, August 1996, Elsevier

    Ian Scoones

  121. Crop Production in a Variable Environment: A Case Study from Southern Zimbabwe

    Article • Experimental Agriculture, July 1996, Cambridge University Press

    Ian Scoones

  122. Isaac Ncube Mazonde: Ranching and enterprise in eastern Botswana: a case study of black and white farmers. (International African Library, 12.) xi, 1161 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994. £39.50.

    Article • Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, June 1995, Cambridge University Press

    Ian Scoones

  123. Exploiting heterogeneity:habitat use by cattle in dryland Zimbabwe

    Article • Journal of Arid Environments, February 1995, Elsevier

    Ian Scoones

  124. 14. Institutionalizing adaptive planning and locallevel concerns: Looking to the future

    Article • January 1995, Practical Action Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  125. Investigating Difference: Applications of Wealth Ranking and Household Survey Approaches among Farming Households in Southern Zimbabwe

    Article • Development and Change, January 1995, Wiley

    Ian Scoones

  126. Living with Uncertainty

    Article • January 1995, Practical Action Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  127. Struggle for control over wetland resources in Zimbabwe

    Article • Society & Natural Resources, November 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  128. Challenging the populist perspective: Rural people's knowledge, agricultural research, and extension practice

    Article • Agriculture and Human Values, March 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ian Scoones

  129. 1. Introduction - Beyond Farmer First

    Article • January 1994, Practical Action Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  130. 1. Introduction; Knowledge, power and agriculture - towards a theoretical understanding

    Article • January 1994, Practical Action Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  131. Beyond Farmer First

    Article • January 1994, Practical Action Publishing

    Ian Scoones

  132. New directions for pastoral development in Africa

    Article • Development in Practice, January 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Ian Scoones

  133. Economic and ecological carrying capacity: applications to pastoral systems in Zimbabwe

    Article • January 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ian Scoones

  134. Coping with drought: Responses of herders and livestock in contrasting savanna environments in Southern Zimbabwe

    Article • Human Ecology, September 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ian Scoones

  135. Land degradation and livestock production in Zimbabwe's communal areas

    Article • Land Degradation and Development, July 1992, Wiley

    Ian Scoones

  136. The economic value of livestock in the communal areas of southern Zimbabwe

    Article • Agricultural Systems, January 1992, Elsevier

    Ian Scoones

  137. Environmental Entitlements

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Ian Scoones