[skip to content]

Centre for Development, Environment and Policy (CeDEP)

News

Currently displaying page 1 of 2

| older »

Three Gorges Dam SOAS receives an Economics and Social Research Council grant to research Chinese hydropower dams

Dr Frauke Urban, from the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy, has been awarded an Economics and Social Research Council grant to conduct the first comparative analysis of Chinese hydropower dam projects in low and middle income countries.

5th November 2012

Dr Ben Daley contributes to SAGE's new Handbook of Environmental Change

Dr. Ben Daley from the Centre for Development Environment and Policy in SOAS at the University of London, has contributed a chapter on changes in coastal and marine environments and ecosystems to Sage's newly published Handbook of Environmental Change.

10th April 2012

CeDEP Voices Concerns Over DfID’s Agricultural Research Policy

Andrew Dorward, Colin Poulton and  Peter Hazell are among the signatories to a letter raising concerns over the policies of the UK Department of International Development (DfID) ...

24th September 2010

Continuing evaluation of Malawi Farm Input Subsidy

Building on the successful completion of two previous evaluations of the Malawi Agricultural Input Subsidy Programme for the Malawi Government and DFID, Andrew Dorward and Ephraim Chirwa  (of the University of Malawi) have been asked to continue with evaluation of the 2009/10 ...

20th September 2010

Mother and Child After the Millennium Development Goals: Lessons Learned and Future Goal Setting Examined in New Commission Co-Written by SOAS Staff

A new blueprint for international development has been published in The Lancet, a week ahead of the UN’s major summit about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). SOAS staff Professor Andrew Dorward and Colin Poulton contributed to the report, particularly the sections relating to agriculture, economics and the definition of development.

13th September 2010

Bhavani Shankar Appointment of new Professor in CeDEP

CeDEP is delighted that Professor Bhavani Shankar will be joining us to take up a Chair in International Food, Agriculture and Health in January 2011.

8th September 2010

Life after the Millennium Development Goals: Lessons Learned and Future Goal Setting

There are only five years left until the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals, and debates about their progress and prospects are becoming increasingly urgent.

12th August 2010

Research Award: Human Adaptation to Biodiversity Change

Andrew Dorward is a member of a team awarded a grant for a 6 month research project on Human Adaptation to Biodiversity Change.

12th August 2010

African Success Stories

On 20th July Andrew Dorward participated in a workshop in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on "Sustainable Intensification and Increased Productivity in African Food and Agricultural Systems".

12th August 2010

World Development (38:10, 2010) will feature four papers by CeDEP authors

A forthcoming special section of World Development (38:10, 2010) on 'The Future of Small Farms' will feature ... 

30th July 2010

Presentation on catchment management at CIWEM 2010

The team researching Catchment Management for Protection of Water Resources gave a presentation “Sinking or Swimming? Surveying community based catchment groups”

30th July 2010

Tamar Lakes New research: Market-Based Mechanisms for Protection of Water Resources

Laurence Smith and partner researchers at the University of East Anglia and Cornell University have been awarded a new project under the RELU programme’s 4th round "Adapting Rural Living and Land Use to Environmental Change"

30th July 2010

CeDEP goes WOMAD

CeDEP representative, Ros Humphreys has just returned from a long and busy weekend at the UK, WOMAD...

29th July 2010

New name for the University of London External System

Following extensive consultation and debate, the University of London External System is adopting a new, up-to-date name to describe its programmes.

28th July 2010

Food Policy is 'top' journal in the field of Agricultural Economics

The latest (2009) journal impact factors were published by Thomson Reuters in June and saw Food Policy, edited by CeDEP staff, rise to 1.606 confirming Food Policy's position (in impact factor terms) as the top agricultural economics journal).  Read the full article for details on the Journal Impact Factor. 

23rd July 2010

Currently displaying page 1 of 2

| older »