Martin Prowse
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 79950 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Martin Prowse |
| NOMBRES | Martin |
| APELLIDO | Prowse |
| FIRMA | PROWSE M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1271-468X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 78 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Scale, Depth and Duration
The study analyses robust, causal evidence of transformational change. We approach this topic by systematically reviewing literature that has the potential to document causal evidence for transformational change across a broad set of interventions and outcomes. Our focus is on evidence found in developing countries to inform climate interventions. We approach this learning exercise directly by looking at the energy sector and indirectly by review…
Realist Review on Just Transition Towards Low Emission, Climate Resilient and More Inclusive Societies in Developing Countries
Just transition describes the transformation towards greener, more inclusive, and more resilient economies and societies. This realist review provides a rigorous summary of global evidence on interventions targeting outcomes contributing towards a just transition in developing countries, spanning energy, agriculture and food, infrastructure, and ecosystem services. We found common enablers for just transition interventions across all or most sect…
Trusted Evidence, Informed Policies, Higher Impact—Climate Evidence Reviews
This Special Issue presents five reviews of global evidence on topics relevant to climate action in developing countries. The SI presents one standalone evidence gap map on results-based payments and three systematic reviews on: transformational change, coastal and terrestrial water sector interventions, and behavioural science. We also present a realist review on just transition. Each review is accompanied by a companion protocol or approach pap…
Supporting farmers dealing with climate change
Coastal and Terrestrial Water-Sector Interventions in Developing Countries
The changing climate severely affects global water resources, threatening water security goals. However, our understanding of the impact of key interventions, particularly in coastal zones and certain types of terrestrial water projects, is limited. This review aims to systematically assess the effectiveness of coastal and terrestrial water-sector interventions at different scales in developing countries. The goal of this systematic review is to …
Coastal and Terrestrial Water-Sector Interventions in Developing Countries
Climate change is severely affecting global water resources and threatening water security goals. However, our understanding of the impact of key interventions, particularly in coastal zones and certain terrestrial water projects, is limited. The primary objective of this systematic review is to identify, assess and synthesize evidence on the effectiveness of coastal and terrestrial water sector interventions in achieving desired outcomes at vari…
Pathways towards just transitions in the Global South
As global decarbonization efforts accelerate, ensuring a just transition has become a critical objective, especially in low- and middle-income countries where climate action intersects with entrenched development challenges. This study uses a realist review and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of 80 interventions across 76 studies to identify the configurations of financial, institutional, and governance conditions that contribute towar…
Evidence Review on Results-Based Payments
Results based payments (RBPs), which involve a funder who agrees to make payments to agents for achieving pre-agreed, verified results, are a unique approach that can potentially address the misaligned incentives at the heart of the climate challenge. They can do so by making payments to service providers or to beneficiaries contingent on achieving specific outcomes that deliver public benefits for the global commons. Such approaches are also app…
Behavioural Science Interventions in Development and Environmental Fields in Developing Countries
Human behaviour is a key driver of climate change yet rigorous empirical guidance is lacking in terms of how behavioural science can effectively support adaptation and emissions reductions in developing countries. This article presents an evidence gap map and the approach for a systematic review on the effectiveness of behavioural science interventions on environmental and development outcomes. The article consists of two parts. First, the articl…
Evidence Review on Results-Based Payments
This article outlines the approach for conducting an evidence review on the effectiveness of results-based payments (RBPs). Specifically, this evidence review will adopt a broad approach to take stock of the literature on the effectiveness of RBP interventions across (1) all sectors where they have been used (such as agriculture, education and health); (2) multiple types of outcomes; and (3) multiple levels (namely, assessments of RBP interventio…
A Protocol for the Review of Examples of Transformational Change in the Energy and Public Health Sectors to Inform Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Interventions
This article describes the approach for an evidence review that combines two different evidence gap maps into one learning exercise on transformational change. The review assesses the evidence in two sectors where there has been demonstrable progress in terms of scale, depth and permanence of change: in energy and in behavioural change in public health. The review uses causal evidence to assess how lessons about transformational change in these t…
Valuing investments in the Global Carbon Market Mechanism as compound real options
The Global Carbon Market Mechanism (GCMM) aims to incentivize national or sub‐national actors to invest in climate mitigation projects at the same time as limiting the global costs of tackling global warming. Using the worked example of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), this article shows that the exact valuation of a mitigation project requires the application of compound real options techniques, as it is able to account for the multi‐stage…
The Evolution of Zimbabwe's Tobacco Industry
This article outlines the historical and contemporary landscape of tobacco production and marketing in Zimbabwe. It highlights patterns of boom and bust dependent on global demand, trading frameworks and degrees of government support to the industry, which are reminiscent of cycles of tobacco production elsewhere in the region. It illustrates at the national and farm level the importance of diversified marketing channels: how the Zimbabwean tobac…
Tobacco Farming and Agrarian Change in Contemporary Southern Africa - An Introduction
For more than a century, tobacco has been a key source of export revenues for both Zimbabwe and Malawi, and, in the past 30 years, production has expanded to parts of Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania. The crop continues to be the main livelihood option for millions of citizens in southern Africa, an important source of income and rural employment and one of the few industries in which the region commands a large share of the global market. Combine…
Tobacco Contract Farming, Crop Diversification and Household Relations in the Central Region of Malawi
This article examines crop diversification and household relations within a contract farming scheme in the Central region of Malawi. It discusses a pilot study that formally included wives to grow soya as part of a tobacco contract in Kasungu district. The article assesses whether this intervention improved benefits for the firm (through higher repayment rates), the farm (through higher yields for key crops) and the family (through greater well-b…
Debt-for-climate swaps
Brokers and Bondage at the Coalface of Contract Farming
The Development Impacts of Covid-19 at Home and Abroad
Tobacco, Transformation and Development Dilemmas from Central Africa
Tobacco, Transformation and Development Dilemmas from Central Africa
Good will hunting
Smallholders' demand for and access to private-sector extension services
This paper examines demand for and access to private-sector extension services by contracted cotton producers in northern Tanzania. Data from a non-random survey of 520 smallholders show that only 21.9% received any extension and only 4.6% received extension from the cotton ginnery. Wealthier households were three times more likely to receive extension from any provider. While the public sector remains the main source of extension and is prioriti…
Women, Wealth and Waterborne Disease
This article identifies factors which contribute to households’ willingness to pay for improving and protecting a multiple-use water scheme in Ethiopia. It does so through descriptive statistics, a probit model and contingent valuation methods complemented with qualitative data. Estimates suggest farmers’ willingness to pay is based on gender, the prevalence of waterborne disease, the time to collect water, contact with extension services, access…
Bespoke Adaptation in Rural Africa? An Asset-Based Approach from Southern Ethiopia
Doctoral dissertations in human geography from Swedish universities 1884–2015
The doctoral dissertation is a key component of postgraduate education that plays an important role for knowledge production and hence the development of a discipline. Swedish human geography currently lacks an overview of dissertations. This article fills this knowledge gap by reporting findings from a unique database covering all doctoral dissertations between 1884 and 2015. The paper focuses on the demographics of the authors (age, gender), th…
Corruption in cyclone preparedness and relief efforts in coastal Bangladesh
A history of tobacco production and marketing in Malawi, 1890-2010
During the past century tobacco production and marketing in Nyasaland/Malawi has undergone periods of dynamism similar to changes since the early 1990s. This article highlights three recurrent patterns. First, estate owners have fostered or constrained peasant/smallholder production dependent on complementarities or competition with estates. Second, the rapid expansion of peasant/smallholder production has led to large multiplier effects in tobac…
Integrating reflexivity into livelihoods research
Much development research is not explicit about its methodology or philosophical foundations. Based on the extended case method of Burawoy and the philosophy of critical realism, this article discusses a methodological approach for reflexive livelihoods research that overcomes the unproductive social science dualism of positivism and social constructivism. The approach is linked to a livelihoods framework, and a sequence of research methods that …
The pitfalls and potential of debt-for-nature swaps
Collective action on forest governance
Becoming abwanaand burley tobacco in the Central Region of Malawi
Smallholders now grow most of Malawi's main export crop - burley tobacco. Based on nineteen months' fieldwork in the Central Region, this article offers a sociological interpretation of why some smallholder growers spend a proportion of burley income on conspicuous consumption in rural towns and trading centres. This practice can be seen as a form of inculcated behaviour whereby smallholders reproduce elements of one model of success in this regi…
Debt-for-climate swaps
Climate variability and livelihood diversification in northern Ethiopia
This article examines smallholders’ perceptions of climate variability in two districts in northern Ethiopia, and the diversification options pursued within and outside agriculture. Meteorological records corroborate smallholders’ belief that temperatures are increasing but do not support assertions that rainfall is decreasing. Farm‐level adaptation mainly involves soil and water conservation measures learnt from state‐led schemes as well as plan…
Assets and Adaptation
Previously viewed as a somewhat defeatist response to climate change, adaptation is now seen as an essential component of any climate policy (Pielke et al. 2007). There are three main reasons for this increase in interest. First, that the impacts of climate change are already being observed and, because of lags in the natural system, more impacts are inevitable (Burton et al. 2002). Second, that mitigation responses have been slow and inadequate,…
The Development Impacts of Covid-19 at Home and Abroad
Financing the Clean Development Mechanism through Debt-for-Efficiency Swaps? Case Study Evidence from a Uruguayan Wind Farm Project
Valuing investments in the Global Carbon Market Mechanism as compound real options
The Global Carbon Market Mechanism (GCMM) aims to incentivize national or sub‐national actors to invest in climate mitigation projects at the same time as limiting the global costs of tackling global warming. Using the worked example of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), this article shows that the exact valuation of a mitigation project requires the application of compound real options techniques, as it is able to account for the multi‐stage…
Tobacco Contract Farming, Crop Diversification and Household Relations in the Central Region of Malawi
This article examines crop diversification and household relations within a contract farming scheme in the Central region of Malawi. It discusses a pilot study that formally included wives to grow soya as part of a tobacco contract in Kasungu district. The article assesses whether this intervention improved benefits for the firm (through higher repayment rates), the farm (through higher yields for key crops) and the family (through greater well-b…
Improving the quality of development assistance
While randomized experiments can be valuable tools in evaluating aid effectiveness, research designs limit the role of qualitative methods to ‘field visits’ or description of contexts. This article suggests expanding the role of qualitative methods and highlights their advantages and limitations relative to survey methods. It reviews a range of qualitative methods and suggests that life histories are compatible with the internal and external vali…
Doctoral dissertations in human geography from Swedish universities 1884–2015
The doctoral dissertation is a key component of postgraduate education that plays an important role for knowledge production and hence the development of a discipline. Swedish human geography currently lacks an overview of dissertations. This article fills this knowledge gap by reporting findings from a unique database covering all doctoral dissertations between 1884 and 2015. The paper focuses on the demographics of the authors (age, gender), th…
The Chronic Poverty Report 2008–2009
The Chronic Poverty Report 2008–2009
Assets and Adaptation
Previously viewed as a somewhat defeatist response to climate change, adaptation is now seen as an essential component of any climate policy (Pielke et al. 2007). There are three main reasons for this increase in interest. First, that the impacts of climate change are already being observed and, because of lags in the natural system, more impacts are inevitable (Burton et al. 2002). Second, that mitigation responses have been slow and inadequate,…
Becoming abwanaand burley tobacco in the Central Region of Malawi
Smallholders now grow most of Malawi's main export crop - burley tobacco. Based on nineteen months' fieldwork in the Central Region, this article offers a sociological interpretation of why some smallholder growers spend a proportion of burley income on conspicuous consumption in rural towns and trading centres. This practice can be seen as a form of inculcated behaviour whereby smallholders reproduce elements of one model of success in this regi…
Integrating reflexivity into livelihoods research
Much development research is not explicit about its methodology or philosophical foundations. Based on the extended case method of Burawoy and the philosophy of critical realism, this article discusses a methodological approach for reflexive livelihoods research that overcomes the unproductive social science dualism of positivism and social constructivism. The approach is linked to a livelihoods framework, and a sequence of research methods that …
The pitfalls and potential of debt-for-nature swaps
Improving the quality of development assistance
While randomized experiments can be valuable tools in evaluating aid effectiveness, research designs limit the role of qualitative methods to ‘field visits’ or description of contexts. This article suggests expanding the role of qualitative methods and highlights their advantages and limitations relative to survey methods. It reviews a range of qualitative methods and suggests that life histories are compatible with the internal and external vali…
Corruption in cyclone preparedness and relief efforts in coastal Bangladesh
Financing the Clean Development Mechanism through Debt-for-Efficiency Swaps? Case Study Evidence from a Uruguayan Wind Farm Project
A history of tobacco production and marketing in Malawi, 1890-2010
During the past century tobacco production and marketing in Nyasaland/Malawi has undergone periods of dynamism similar to changes since the early 1990s. This article highlights three recurrent patterns. First, estate owners have fostered or constrained peasant/smallholder production dependent on complementarities or competition with estates. Second, the rapid expansion of peasant/smallholder production has led to large multiplier effects in tobac…
A Comparative Value Chain Analysis of Smallholder Burley Tobacco Production in Malawi - 2003/4 and 2009/10
Smallholders grow the majority of Malawi's main export crop - burley tobacco. We analyse this value chain segment for the 2003/4 and 2009/10 seasons. The comparison shows smallholder profits in 2003/4 were limited by two main factors: a cartel of leaf merchants at auction and inefficient marketing arrangements. In 2009/10, there was greater competition at auction, improvements in marketing, tighter state regulation (including minimum prices) and …
Collective action on forest governance
Climate variability and livelihood diversification in northern Ethiopia
This article examines smallholders’ perceptions of climate variability in two districts in northern Ethiopia, and the diversification options pursued within and outside agriculture. Meteorological records corroborate smallholders’ belief that temperatures are increasing but do not support assertions that rainfall is decreasing. Farm‐level adaptation mainly involves soil and water conservation measures learnt from state‐led schemes as well as plan…
Women, Wealth and Waterborne Disease
This article identifies factors which contribute to households’ willingness to pay for improving and protecting a multiple-use water scheme in Ethiopia. It does so through descriptive statistics, a probit model and contingent valuation methods complemented with qualitative data. Estimates suggest farmers’ willingness to pay is based on gender, the prevalence of waterborne disease, the time to collect water, contact with extension services, access…
Bespoke Adaptation in Rural Africa? An Asset-Based Approach from Southern Ethiopia
Doctoral dissertations in human geography from Swedish universities 1884–2015
The doctoral dissertation is a key component of postgraduate education that plays an important role for knowledge production and hence the development of a discipline. Swedish human geography currently lacks an overview of dissertations. This article fills this knowledge gap by reporting findings from a unique database covering all doctoral dissertations between 1884 and 2015. The paper focuses on the demographics of the authors (age, gender), th…
Tobacco, Transformation and Development Dilemmas from Central Africa
Tobacco, Transformation and Development Dilemmas from Central Africa
Good will hunting
Smallholders' demand for and access to private-sector extension services
This paper examines demand for and access to private-sector extension services by contracted cotton producers in northern Tanzania. Data from a non-random survey of 520 smallholders show that only 21.9% received any extension and only 4.6% received extension from the cotton ginnery. Wealthier households were three times more likely to receive extension from any provider. While the public sector remains the main source of extension and is prioriti…
Brokers and Bondage at the Coalface of Contract Farming
The Development Impacts of Covid-19 at Home and Abroad
Debt-for-climate swaps
The Evolution of Zimbabwe's Tobacco Industry
This article outlines the historical and contemporary landscape of tobacco production and marketing in Zimbabwe. It highlights patterns of boom and bust dependent on global demand, trading frameworks and degrees of government support to the industry, which are reminiscent of cycles of tobacco production elsewhere in the region. It illustrates at the national and farm level the importance of diversified marketing channels: how the Zimbabwean tobac…
Tobacco Farming and Agrarian Change in Contemporary Southern Africa - An Introduction
For more than a century, tobacco has been a key source of export revenues for both Zimbabwe and Malawi, and, in the past 30 years, production has expanded to parts of Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania. The crop continues to be the main livelihood option for millions of citizens in southern Africa, an important source of income and rural employment and one of the few industries in which the region commands a large share of the global market. Combine…
Tobacco Contract Farming, Crop Diversification and Household Relations in the Central Region of Malawi
This article examines crop diversification and household relations within a contract farming scheme in the Central region of Malawi. It discusses a pilot study that formally included wives to grow soya as part of a tobacco contract in Kasungu district. The article assesses whether this intervention improved benefits for the firm (through higher repayment rates), the farm (through higher yields for key crops) and the family (through greater well-b…
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