Dominic Glover

Research Fellow @IDS_UK. Agriculture, food systems, technology, international aid & development, rice, GM crops. Tweets in personal capacity. RT ≠ endorse.

[Dominic Glover @domglov]

New today: the latest episode of the @IDS_UK Between the Lines podcast https://t.co/Ud6wnXQOEf

It was good fun to record this conversation with author and scholar @glenndavisstone of @SweetBriaredu (formerly of @WUSTL) about his iconoclastic, accessible and entertaining new book

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

'Just a minute!'

Creating a safe space for people on bikes and scooters at places that are temporarily blocked by car drivers.

(📹 by @braitsch - Valencia Street, San Francisco🇺🇸)

[Ian Scoones @IanScoones]

Whether it's climate change, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks or new technology, we don't know what the future holds. But how can we navigate uncertainty? Check out the book now! @politybooks @IDS_UK

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

🧵Want to understand why weaning ourselves off fossil fuels like oil is such a tricky challenge?
Best place to start is with this ubiquitous toy👇
This is a thread about what I call the LEGO conundrum.
It begins when you ponder what a LEGO brick is actually made of...

[Nathan Oxley @nathan_oxley]

Great new book by @IanScoones on uncertainty - truly an ever-present issue - that brings together vast amounts of research on the challenge of navigating complex, uncertain settings across the world, illustrated by many real-world case studies.
https://t.co/aqgqbe9irI

[Dominic Glover @domglov]

Belated news-New paper, which came out while I was on holiday, so I'm late reposting this. It was satisfying to be involved in this collaboration, ably led by @bdowduribe as a key output from his Mak'It fellowship @umontpellier.

[Brian Dowd-Uribe @bdowduribe]

How do we know if new ag tech makes progress towards SDGs? Our new article takes the case of #GMO crops in Africa & (1) shows current evals are insufficient & (2) proposes new approaches. If we care about #SDGs we need to improve how we judge progress 1/ https://t.co/shwB7l2nwo

[Joeva Rock @joevarock]

"Socio-economic assessment and genetically engineered crops in Africa: Building knowledge for development?"

New paper out, led by @bdowduribe, and with a wonderful group of co-authors.

Available open access in Global Food Security: https://t.co/nGPvlY5Mkq

[Dominic Glover @domglov]

@DirkSchwenk @threadreaderapp unroll please

[Brian Dowd-Uribe @bdowduribe]

As @domglov and @glenndavisstone find here, getting to market will likely depend on direct incentives for growers, but even then it isn't clear whether they would compel folks to grow golden rice (and this doesn't get at other social hurdles) https://t.co/7DjtqPfAsG

[Ian Scoones @IanScoones]

NEW BOOK! Pre-order now; release July/Sept in Europe/US; launch events in UK, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and France in October. More details soon. 📚📖 https://t.co/97XSs0zuyQ @IDS_UK @PASTRES_erc @politybooks

[Institute of Development Studies @IDS_UK]

🎙️New #Podcast #African Perspectives on #Agroecology

In this episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast, @domglov (IDS Research Fellow) interviews @RachelWynberg as they discuss why farmer-led seed and knowledge systems matter.

Listen at: 👉https://t.co/l9bRl2aMs1

[SARChI Bio-economy Research Chair @UCT_BioEconomy]

@domglov from @IDS_UK interviews @RachelWynberg
on 'Between the Lines' podcast. She talks about the recent publication of 'African Perspectives on Agroecology'. Have a listen, let us know what you think and share widely!
https://t.co/QAsw7X84Vt

[Dominic Glover @domglov]

"We need a new approach to achieve a decent living for plantation workers"-new blog by my @IDS_UK colleague, Giel Ton, announcing our new paper which shares insights from our recent study of @RnfrstAlliance's #LivingWage strategy
#PEDROframework
https://t.co/0LedcZalv0

[Brian Dowd-Uribe @bdowduribe]

All of this means, that, though PPPs have been around since the early 1990s in Africa, they have yet to deliver GM crops for poor + small farmers in a substantial way, and, in their current state, have significant challenges to doing so in the near future FIN

[Brian Dowd-Uribe @bdowduribe]

Though there has been much effort & advocacy around African institutions solely developing GM crop for African farmers, such research efforts are a minority + no All African institution-led GM crops have reached the hands of farmers 7/

[Brian Dowd-Uribe @bdowduribe]

Though PPPs occupy most of the hope for GM crops for small farmers in Africa, private GM research still dominates the R&D landscape, w/ research focused on only a few crops: maize, soybean and cotton. 3/

[Brian Dowd-Uribe @bdowduribe]

Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) are hailed as a way to bring private biotech IPR to public researchers in Africa to create GM & gene-edited crops for poor farmers. Our latest pub leverages a new data set to assess their extent & performance #GMO 👇https://t.co/7AYuLKClro 🧵 1/

[Joeva Rock @joevarock]

Glad to have contributed to this special issue along with @KlaraJFischer. Our commentary on the need to change scientific narratives of new food technologies is now available open access for the next month

https://t.co/LnlTmRKla1

[Johan Rockström @jrockstrom]

We tend to drown in the complexity & our inability to bend the global curve of fossil-fuel emissions. Here is the obvious 1st step to succeed - stop subsidizing oil, gas & coal. 7 trillion USD. Almost 10% of the global economy… Let, at least, clean energy compete on fair terms.

[Joeva Rock @joevarock]

Re-thinking the Green Revolution with @glenndavisstone https://t.co/GKTyaScllq

[Paolo Crosetto @PaoloCrosetto]

Academic publishing is in deep trouble.

We all know it: paper mills, thousands of Special Issues, retractions, skyrocketing APCs...

What is going on?

@danbrockington , @HansonM90 , @pagomba & me we have a preprint just out, with tons of data.

A 🧵

https://t.co/4mitceMZAh