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New Publication: Does diversification enhance community resilience? A critical perspective
Cochrane, L. and Cafer, A. (2018) Does Diversification Enhance Community Resilience? A Critical Perspective. Resilience. https://doi.org/10.1080/21693293.2017.1406849 Abstract: Resilience has become a key component of how practitioners and scholars conceptualize sustainable communities. Given sustainability’s focal role in shaping international development funding, policies and programming it is imperative that we critically engage with the concepts embedded within the […]
Tags: #Development Studies #Diversification #Ethiopia #Resilience #Sustainability
New Publication: Soil and Water Conservation in Ethiopia
Zerihun N., Tsunekawa, A., Nigussie H., Enyew A., Cochrane, L. and Floquet, A. and Abele, S. (2018). Applying Ostom’s Institutional Analysis and Development to Soil and Water Conservation in Ethiopia. Land Use Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.11.039 Abstract: Sustainable land management is of utmost importance in Ethiopia and relies on Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) measures collectively implemented by […]
Tags: #Conservation #Ethiopia #Institutional Analysis #Ostrom #Policy
New Publication: Worldviews Apart: Agriculture Extension and Smallholder Farmers
Cochrane, L. (2017) Worldviews Apart: Agriculture Extension and Ethiopian Smallholder Farmers. Journal of Rural Social Sciences 32: 98-118. Abstract: This paper presents an inquiry-based learning assessment into why farmers in the highlands of Ethiopia were not adopting a new planting methodology promoted by the government and non-governmental organizations. It offers a process of reflexivity whereby assumptions […]
Tags: #Agricultural extension #Agriculture #Ethiopia #Rural Development #Worldviews
New Publication: Stages of Food Security
Cochrane, L. (2017) Stages of Food Security: A Co-produced Mixed Methods Methodology. Progress in Development Studies 17(4): 1-16. Abstract: This article presents the stages of food security methodology, an adaptation of stages of progress developed by Dr. Krishna. Studies of food security are primarily survey based, applying a common set of generalist indicators across a range […]
Tags: #Development Studies #Ethiopia #Food Security #Mixed methods #Stages of Food Security
New publication: Designing Knowledge Co-production for Climate and Development
Harvey, B., Cochrane, L., Van Epp, M., Cranston, P., and Pirani, P.A. (2017) Designing Knowledge Co-production for Climate and Development. CARIAA Working Paper #21. International Development Research Centre: Ottawa. Abstract: Climate change poses significant global challenges. Solutions require new ways of working, thinking and acting. Knowledge co-production is often cited as one of the innovations needed […]
Tags: #Climate change #Development Studies #International development #Knowledge coproduction
New Publication: The Geography of Development Studies: Leaving No One Behind
Cochrane, L. and Thornton, A. (2017) The Geography of Development Studies. Forum for Development Studies. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2017.1345786 Abstract: Whereas the Millennium Development Goals sought reductions, the Sustainable Development Goals have set forth bold new objectives of leaving no one behind. This Commentary explores the continued geographic prioritization and exclusions within development studies research and some of the […]
Tags: #Development Studies #Geography of Development Studies #International development #Leaving No One Behind #Research for Development
New Publication: Gulf Cooperation Council Countries andthe Global Land Grab
Cochrane, L. and Amery, H. (2017) Gulf Cooperation Council Countries and the Global Land Grab. Arab World Geographer 20(1): 17-41. Abstract: A rapid increase in large-scale land acquisitions associated with the food-commodity price spike in 2008 resulted in a flurry of journalistic, non-governmental organization, and academic publications. One of the primary narratives that emerged was that oil-rich […]
Tags: #Global land rush #Gulf cooperation council #Land Grab #Land grabbing #Middle East
New Publication: South Africa & the Group Areas Act
Cochrane, L. and Chellan, W. (2017) “The Group Areas Act affects us all”: Apartheid and Socio-Religious Change in the Cape Town Muslims Community, South Africa. Oral History Forum. Abstract: Oral history interviews with elders of the Cape Town Muslim community were conducted in order to record and explore the socio-religious changes that occurred over the last […]
Tags: #Apartheid #Group Areas Act #Oral History #Religion #South Africa
New Publication: Who is Defining Effectiveness?
Cochrane, L. and Thornton, A. (2017) Charity Rankers: Who is Defining Effectiveness? (Ch. 18, p 108-113). In Smart Risks: How Small Grants are Helping to Solve Some of the World’s Biggest Problems, edited by J. Lentfer and T. Cothran. Practical Action Publishing: Warwickshire. Preview (first page) of chapter available here, email me for a full copy.
Tags: #Charity rankers #Charity ranking #Effectiveness #Smart risks
Doctoral Dissertation: Strengthening Food Security in Rural Ethiopia
Cochrane, L. 2017. Strengthening Food Security in Rural Ethiopia. Doctoral Dissertation, University of British Columbia. Abstract: Food insecurity in rural areas of southern Ethiopia is widespread; in recent years over half of all communities in this region have been reliant upon emergency support. However, food security status varies significantly from year to year, as the […]
Tags: #Coproduction #Ethiopia #Food Security #Rural Development #Strengthening food security
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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