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Farmer groups: Why we love them, why we do them and why they fail

Someone once told me that I couldn’t be a real agriculturalist until I had at least one failed chicken project…

Tim Stewart07/01/2014

Article Global Research Guidance

Development’s New Sickness – ‘Cognitive Dissonance’

Ben Taylor Originally featured on businessfightspoverty.org Like British sportspeople and the overuse of acronyms, evidence-based policy and systemic change are…

Ben Taylor11/11/2013

Article Global MSD in New Sectors Water & Sanitation

The Sustainability Drought: Failures and Potential Solutions in Water and Sanitation

Ben Taylor Originally featured on businessfightspoverty.org People die without clean water. People get sick without effective sanitation - from which…

Ben Taylor23/10/2013

Article Global MSD in New Sectors Water & Sanitation

Effectiveness, scale and sustainability in WASH programmes – a review

The Springfield Centre, October 2013 This paper proposes an analytical framework for assessing development in WASH through highlighting inadequacies in…