Ground Floor A 022 « Session Locations « International Conference on Research for Development

February 23, 2017

Commoditization, employment and the question of land: How does access to land shape employment conditions in the rural labour market?

Sabin Bieri1, Gabriela Ruesgas2, Elisabeth Jimenez Zamora2, Saithong Phommavong3 1University of Bern, Centre for Development and Environment, Bern, Switzerland; 2Universidad de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia; 3National University of Laos, Vientiane, Lao PDR The transition to a capital-intensive, commercial agriculture is deemed the way to more productivity and to the creation of employment for […]

February 23, 2017

Understanding and transforming drivers of land systems in a globalized world

Peter Messerli1, Julie Zähringer1, Sithong Thongmanivong2, Bruno Ramamonjisoa3, Markus Giger1 1University of Bern, Switzerland; 2National University of Laos; 3Ecole Supérieure des Science Agronomiques (ESSA) Forêts, Antananarivo Land systems – understood as coupled social-ecological systems – and their dynamics are decisive for sustainable development outcomes in terms of both the environment and human wellbeing. Such […]

February 23, 2017

Behavioural “fixes” for inclusive business: creating the human “software” to achieving SDGs ?

Solène Morvant-Roux, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Philip Mader, Institute of Development Studies, United Kingdom This “traditional” paper session (with four or five presenters) will assemble research grappling with the interconnection of two current phenomena that affect poor people in developing countries. The first is the deepening of market-based and business-oriented forms of engagement with […]