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Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) Online Course (free)
The Practice of PDIA: Building Capability by Delivering Results is a free 12-week experiential training program that will provide you with the necessary frameworks and tools that you need to do PDIA in your context. The training will be offered from April 3- June 26, 2016 and will include video lectures, required reading, assignments, reflection […]
Tags: #Capacity Building #Delivering Results #Harvard #Practice of PDIA #Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)
Capitalism and Human Time: Reflections from Unequal Development
A recent post explored the concept of unequal development, under-development and the exploitation of the third world proposed by Amin several decades ago. In this post, we continue exploring Samir Amin’s “Unequal Development: An Essay on the Social Formations of Peripheral Capitalism” from 1976, and focus upon his analysis of capitalism – what it is, how […]
Tags: #Capital #Capitalism #Mode of Production #Production #proletarianization
2016 UN Momentum for Change Awards
Applications are being accepted from 19 February to 25 April. Spearheaded by the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat, Momentum for Change shines a light on the most innovative, scalable and replicable examples of what people around the world are doing to tackle climate change. Who: Organizations, communities, cities, businesses, governments and others that are taking concrete […]
Tags: #Award #Climate change #Innovation #Lighthouse Activity #Scalability
STAARS Initiative (Fellowship for African Researchers)
PEP is calling for concept proposals for the Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) fellowship, supported by the International Center for International Development (IDRC) of Canada. The STAARS project is a collaboration with Cornell University, the African Development Bank (AfDB), the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), and the World Bank. PEP aims […]
Tags: #African Researchers #Agriculture #Fellowship #STAARS Initiative
Unequal Development & Underdevelopment
Continuing the “Thought Provokers” series from essential development studies reading, this post covers Samir Amin’s 1976 “Unequal Development: An Essay on the Social Formations of Peripheral Capitalism.” This work represents some of the earlier writing on ideas of unequal development, inequality and underdevelopment. Plenty of food for thought and discussion: “External equilibrium – international order – is possible […]
Tags: #Peripheral Capitalism #Samir Amin #Underdevelopment #Unequal Development #Unequal Exchange
AgreenSkills’ Post-doc Research Fellowships
AgreenSkills+ is an European Union co-funded fellowship programmes, accepting applications for postdoctoral fellowships from experienced young and independent postdoctoral researchers, in the fields of life, agricultural, nutrition, and environmental sciences. Proposals are accepted, without any topic guideline, for basic or applied sciences. Fellows are offered 12-36 month positions in a laboratory based within one of […]
Tags: #Agriculture #Environmental Science #Fellowship #Nutrition #Post-doc
About me
Logan Cochrane
Logan is a 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 twenty 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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