Always a great definition of political economy analysis
A definition of politica economy analysis
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On the ways of learning by Mary Catherine Bateson
I am reading the Peripheral Visions: Learning along the Way by Mary Catherine Bateson. What a wonderful book
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Capitalism without competition
What a podcast episode from The Daily @ The New York Times: Who do You Want Controlling Your Food? Since 1980s and Ronald Reagan, a continuous process of mergers and market consolidation in the food industries ash left small producers are the mercy of giant corporations. When small producers try to innovate to reach consumers
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‘Food policy as doing.’ An example from the 1970s from Finland of how to solve a complex social and economic problem with a system approach.
Thank you to Adam Kremeia for sharing with me this Guardian Long Read about the failing food systems in the UK and for pointing me to the experience from Northern Karelia in Finland. The article is titled We need to break the junk food cycle’: how to fix Britain’s failing food system. It is a very
Living in a World of Systems, excerpts from Donella Meadows
Excerpts from Thinking in Systems, A Primer by Donella Meadows “People who are raised in the industrial world and who get enthused about systems thinking are likely to make a terrible mistake. They are likely to assume that here, in systems analysis, in interconnection and complication, in the power of the computer, here at last,
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Exploring complexity and the implications for leadership and decision making in a changing world. In conversation with Marco Valente.
One of the nicer aspects of exploring, reading and learning about systems thinking and complexity is to discover interesting blogs, papers and books and to get in touch with the authors to learn more about their points of view and their journeys into systems. Some months ago, one of my Google searches brought me to
‘Make it Happen’ in Development: Sensemaking and Portfolios of Options in the Governance Space. In conversation with Emilia Lischke
The design and implementation of development initiatives in support of policy and governance reforms often contends with systems of interlinked problems and non-linear and unpredictable change processes (Harry Jones 2011).
A shift in perception: exploring ways to work with complexity in international development
I really enjoyed to go back this week to this paper from 2016 by ODI’s Anne Buffardi: When Theory Meets Reality. I went back to Anne’s paper because I am doing some work on defining some principle the can help design and set up monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) systems for development project/programmes that tackle