Ryan Nehring
Biographic Data
| ID | 169838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ryan Nehring |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ryan |
| FAMILY NAME | Nehring |
| SIGNATURE | NEHRING R |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Food Policy Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0867-7820 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
How does rural governance adaptively address multiple rural development objectives? - The case of Qingshan Village, China
After quantification: Insights from India’s Soil Health Card scheme
As the concept of soil health gains prominence, it becomes increasingly important to examine how states design and implement soil health policies. Does soil health offer a novel pathway to enact and legitimize institutional changes toward more sustainable farming systems, or does it risk becoming another neologism that preserves status quo, productivist agriculture? We explore these questions through an analysis of one of the most ambitious state…
Power, policy, and practice: Political economy perspectives on agroecological transitions
Agroecology has emerged globally as a promising alternative to industrialized agriculture, offering pathways toward more sustainable, just, and resilient food systems. Yet despite growing empirical support and increasing policy attention, agroecological transitions remain uneven and contested. This introduction to the Special Collection on “The Political Economy of Agroecological Transitions” provides a rationale for why agroecology as a paradigm…
A critical approach to co‐producing knowledge for development
An Evolving Landscape for Nexus Governance in Transboundary Basins: Recognizing and Harnessing the Growing Role of Multistakeholder Platforms
Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa
For agricultural historians, few historical narratives are as ubiquitous and debated as those about the Green Revolution. The Green Revolution is more than a narrative, however. For farmers throughout the Global South and scientists and government officials in the Global North, the Green Revolution was a set of technologies, a political strategy, and a model for development. Today, as philanthropists and a new wave of scientists are calling for a…
The political economy of agroecological transitions: Key Analytical Dimensions
The technopolitics of agronomic knowledge and tropical(izing) vegetables in Brazil
This article critically analyzes the social and political factors behind the advancement of technoscientific development in modern Brazilian agriculture. In the second half of the 20th century, Brazil underwent a rapid industrialization in the agricultural sector by more than doubling productivity in key global commodities and a widespread migration of people from rural to urban areas. Most observers point to the Brazilian Agricultural Research C…
Environmental assessment of pesticide use in the cerrado region of Brazil
The Cerrado in Central Brazil is composed of unique vegetation types with a large source of bioactive compounds. The 1970s and 1980s were marked by the intensive incorporation of these forested areas into pastures and cropland, which increased the consumption of pesticides like glyphosate and atrazine. Today there continues to be a constant loss of native vegetation in this biome, and the pressure from land use is causing significant losses of na…
Soy Without Borders: The Transnational Dynamics of Commodity Frontiers In South America (1971-2019)
The rapid growth of soybean production and exports over the past five decades has transformed vast regions in South America. Five countries in particular - Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay - are amongst the ten largest soy producers in the world. Taken together, they have been called the United Republic of Soy or Soylandia due to similarities in the socio-environmental drivers and consequences of soy production between their terri…
Digitising biopiracy? The global governance of plant genetic resources in the age of digital sequencing information
Historical concerns over the exploitation of the Global South's genetic biodiversity framed the importance of creating global governance mechanisms to ensure fair access to and benefit-sharing of genetic resources worldwide. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Plant Treaty) came into existence over the past three decades to redress the centuries of genetic expl…
The Brazilian Green Revolution
century. It offers a critical appraisal of recent calls to decolonize political geography by locating the role played by actors and institutions in the Global South within the broader narrative of the Green Revolution. Historical accounts of the Green Revolution have only recently started to incorporate perspectives of and attribute agency to actors in the Global South. However, Brazil has largely been left out of the geographical scope of the Gr…
Yield of dreams: Marching west and the politics of scientific knowledge in the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa)
Constructing parallels: Brazilian expertise and the commodification of land, labour and money in Mozambique
As part of a larger push for so-called South–South development, Brazil is supporting projects in a growing number of countries across Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, we investigate the agricultural project ProSAVANA in Mozambique. We draw on research conducted in Brazil and Mozambique and argue that the attempt to replicate Brazil's successes in agro-industrial commodity production discounts the importance of nationally speci…
The 'state' of food sovereignty in Latin America: Political projects and alternative pathways in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia
The concept of food sovereignty has been enshrined in the constitutions of a number of countries around the world without any clear consensus around what state-sponsored 'food sovereignty' might entail. At the forefront of this movement are the countries of the so-called 'pink tide' of Latin America - chiefly Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia. This paper examines how state commitments to food sovereignty have been put into practice in these three co…
The 'state' of food sovereignty in Latin America: Political projects and alternative pathways in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia
The concept of food sovereignty has been enshrined in the constitutions of a number of countries around the world without any clear consensus around what state-sponsored 'food sovereignty' might entail. At the forefront of this movement are the countries of the so-called 'pink tide' of Latin America - chiefly Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia. This paper examines how state commitments to food sovereignty have been put into practice in these three co…
Constructing parallels: Brazilian expertise and the commodification of land, labour and money in Mozambique
As part of a larger push for so-called South–South development, Brazil is supporting projects in a growing number of countries across Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, we investigate the agricultural project ProSAVANA in Mozambique. We draw on research conducted in Brazil and Mozambique and argue that the attempt to replicate Brazil's successes in agro-industrial commodity production discounts the importance of nationally speci…
Yield of dreams: Marching west and the politics of scientific knowledge in the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa)
The Brazilian Green Revolution
century. It offers a critical appraisal of recent calls to decolonize political geography by locating the role played by actors and institutions in the Global South within the broader narrative of the Green Revolution. Historical accounts of the Green Revolution have only recently started to incorporate perspectives of and attribute agency to actors in the Global South. However, Brazil has largely been left out of the geographical scope of the Gr…
The political economy of agroecological transitions: Key Analytical Dimensions
Soy Without Borders: The Transnational Dynamics of Commodity Frontiers In South America (1971-2019)
The rapid growth of soybean production and exports over the past five decades has transformed vast regions in South America. Five countries in particular - Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay - are amongst the ten largest soy producers in the world. Taken together, they have been called the United Republic of Soy or Soylandia due to similarities in the socio-environmental drivers and consequences of soy production between their terri…
The technopolitics of agronomic knowledge and tropical(izing) vegetables in Brazil
This article critically analyzes the social and political factors behind the advancement of technoscientific development in modern Brazilian agriculture. In the second half of the 20th century, Brazil underwent a rapid industrialization in the agricultural sector by more than doubling productivity in key global commodities and a widespread migration of people from rural to urban areas. Most observers point to the Brazilian Agricultural Research C…
The 'state' of food sovereignty in Latin America: Political projects and alternative pathways in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia
The concept of food sovereignty has been enshrined in the constitutions of a number of countries around the world without any clear consensus around what state-sponsored 'food sovereignty' might entail. At the forefront of this movement are the countries of the so-called 'pink tide' of Latin America - chiefly Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia. This paper examines how state commitments to food sovereignty have been put into practice in these three co…
Constructing parallels: Brazilian expertise and the commodification of land, labour and money in Mozambique
As part of a larger push for so-called South–South development, Brazil is supporting projects in a growing number of countries across Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, we investigate the agricultural project ProSAVANA in Mozambique. We draw on research conducted in Brazil and Mozambique and argue that the attempt to replicate Brazil's successes in agro-industrial commodity production discounts the importance of nationally speci…
Yield of dreams: Marching west and the politics of scientific knowledge in the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa)
Soy Without Borders: The Transnational Dynamics of Commodity Frontiers In South America (1971-2019)
The rapid growth of soybean production and exports over the past five decades has transformed vast regions in South America. Five countries in particular - Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay - are amongst the ten largest soy producers in the world. Taken together, they have been called the United Republic of Soy or Soylandia due to similarities in the socio-environmental drivers and consequences of soy production between their terri…
Digitising biopiracy? The global governance of plant genetic resources in the age of digital sequencing information
Historical concerns over the exploitation of the Global South's genetic biodiversity framed the importance of creating global governance mechanisms to ensure fair access to and benefit-sharing of genetic resources worldwide. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Plant Treaty) came into existence over the past three decades to redress the centuries of genetic expl…
The Brazilian Green Revolution
century. It offers a critical appraisal of recent calls to decolonize political geography by locating the role played by actors and institutions in the Global South within the broader narrative of the Green Revolution. Historical accounts of the Green Revolution have only recently started to incorporate perspectives of and attribute agency to actors in the Global South. However, Brazil has largely been left out of the geographical scope of the Gr…
Environmental assessment of pesticide use in the cerrado region of Brazil
The Cerrado in Central Brazil is composed of unique vegetation types with a large source of bioactive compounds. The 1970s and 1980s were marked by the intensive incorporation of these forested areas into pastures and cropland, which increased the consumption of pesticides like glyphosate and atrazine. Today there continues to be a constant loss of native vegetation in this biome, and the pressure from land use is causing significant losses of na…
The technopolitics of agronomic knowledge and tropical(izing) vegetables in Brazil
This article critically analyzes the social and political factors behind the advancement of technoscientific development in modern Brazilian agriculture. In the second half of the 20th century, Brazil underwent a rapid industrialization in the agricultural sector by more than doubling productivity in key global commodities and a widespread migration of people from rural to urban areas. Most observers point to the Brazilian Agricultural Research C…
A critical approach to co‐producing knowledge for development
An Evolving Landscape for Nexus Governance in Transboundary Basins: Recognizing and Harnessing the Growing Role of Multistakeholder Platforms
Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa
For agricultural historians, few historical narratives are as ubiquitous and debated as those about the Green Revolution. The Green Revolution is more than a narrative, however. For farmers throughout the Global South and scientists and government officials in the Global North, the Green Revolution was a set of technologies, a political strategy, and a model for development. Today, as philanthropists and a new wave of scientists are calling for a…
The political economy of agroecological transitions: Key Analytical Dimensions
How does rural governance adaptively address multiple rural development objectives? - The case of Qingshan Village, China
After quantification: Insights from India’s Soil Health Card scheme
As the concept of soil health gains prominence, it becomes increasingly important to examine how states design and implement soil health policies. Does soil health offer a novel pathway to enact and legitimize institutional changes toward more sustainable farming systems, or does it risk becoming another neologism that preserves status quo, productivist agriculture? We explore these questions through an analysis of one of the most ambitious state…
Power, policy, and practice: Political economy perspectives on agroecological transitions
Agroecology has emerged globally as a promising alternative to industrialized agriculture, offering pathways toward more sustainable, just, and resilient food systems. Yet despite growing empirical support and increasing policy attention, agroecological transitions remain uneven and contested. This introduction to the Special Collection on “The Political Economy of Agroecological Transitions” provides a rationale for why agroecology as a paradigm…
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