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Shruti Patel

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Lecturer @eth_en | @ETH_Nadel | Talk to me about food systems, NGOs, and being human! | 🇰🇪 | Board member @FutureForAll

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A desperately poor country where barely 31% of population has access to reliable power is being bullied into cutting its negligible emissions by 30% in 6 years. Why is this a @WorldBank priority? How is this a Bissauian priority?

💡With only 31% of the population having electricity, Guinea-Bissau faces challenges in achieving universal access. Yet, huge potential is ahead! The #GuineaBissauCCDR outlines strategies to harness #RenewableEnergy to drive progress. wrld.bg/YxRc50UtRkY #AfricaACTs in 2024

WBG_Energy's tweet image. 💡With only 31% of the population having electricity, Guinea-Bissau faces challenges in achieving universal access. Yet, huge potential is ahead!

The #GuineaBissauCCDR outlines strategies to harness #RenewableEnergy to drive progress. wrld.bg/YxRc50UtRkY  #AfricaACTs in 2024


A little project I’ve been working on: a 12-day advent calendar with stories of progress from around the world. I hope they bring a spark of energy at the end of what's been a bleak year. app.myadvent.net/calendar?id=ny…


Only 24% of news articles on climate change mention health impacts...

Are people and politicians aware of the health threats from climate change? Not enough. Media coverage of health problems related to climate change has increased but still three quarters of climate media reports do not mention health. (22)

globalhlthtwit's tweet image. Are people and politicians aware of the health threats from climate change? Not enough. Media coverage of health problems related to climate change  has increased but still three quarters of climate media reports do not mention health. (22)


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How important is money, really? New, fascinating PNAS study finds 'small-scale societies' stand out as being extremely satisfied despite low incomes. How is this possible, given the link between wealth and satisfaction? Well, many other things matter! (pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…)

MichaelDPlant's tweet image. How important is money, really? New, fascinating PNAS study finds 'small-scale societies' stand out as being extremely satisfied despite low incomes.

How is this possible, given the link between wealth and satisfaction? Well, many other things matter!
(pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…)
MichaelDPlant's tweet image. How important is money, really? New, fascinating PNAS study finds 'small-scale societies' stand out as being extremely satisfied despite low incomes.

How is this possible, given the link between wealth and satisfaction? Well, many other things matter!
(pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…)

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🆕📰Barriers to the uptake of solar-powered irrigation by smallholder farmers in sub-saharan Africa: A review ✏️By @ClaudiaRingler and colleagues #OpenAccess 🖱️doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.… @CGIAR #Irrigation #Africa @IFPRI_Africa @IWMI

IFPRI's tweet image. 🆕📰Barriers to the uptake of solar-powered irrigation by smallholder farmers in sub-saharan Africa: A review

✏️By @ClaudiaRingler and colleagues

#OpenAccess 🖱️doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.…
@CGIAR #Irrigation #Africa @IFPRI_Africa @IWMI

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Refugees in Nakivale, western Uganda, one of Africa's oldest refugee settlements, replant lost forests. Many once bare areas are now teeming with trees. So far they’ve planted over 460,000 trees africanews.com/2024/01/04/uga…


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RIP Saleemul Huq, a true climate hero. Here's my 2020 podcast and transcript with a man who was always polite, professorial and persistent. The climate movement has lost one of its giants. @IIED @ICCCAD frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/rip-saleemul-h…


This is a neat way to understand behaviour change....we often rely on incentivisation without checking if the necessary infrastructure (physical, social & economic) is in place.

Nosek refers to the “pyramid of culture change” as his strategy to push for reforms: first make a better practice possible, then easy, expected, rewarding & finally, required: issues.org/episode-36-ope…

gquaggiotto's tweet image. Nosek refers to the “pyramid of culture change” as his strategy to push for reforms: first make a better practice possible, then easy, expected, rewarding & finally, required: issues.org/episode-36-ope…


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We are looking for a new team member. Please apply if you are interested in a 6 months RA position in development economics ⁦@ETH_en⁩. Apply here: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_…

Guenther_ETH's tweet image. We are looking for a new team member. Please apply if you are interested in a 6 months RA position in development economics ⁦@ETH_en⁩. Apply here: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_…

Exciting happenings!

Nosek refers to the “pyramid of culture change” as his strategy to push for reforms: first make a better practice possible, then easy, expected, rewarding & finally, required: issues.org/episode-36-ope…

gquaggiotto's tweet image. Nosek refers to the “pyramid of culture change” as his strategy to push for reforms: first make a better practice possible, then easy, expected, rewarding & finally, required: issues.org/episode-36-ope…


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Say it louder for the development experts in the back.

If the most coveted jobs in your country are development jobs, then your country is not developing.



Sanctions are becoming a go-to policing instrument... BUT their effectiveness is questionable and they lead to big declines in living standards in target countries - especially for vulnerable groups. Powerful synthesis of 32 studies by @frrodriguezc - cepr.net/report/the-hum…

shrutis_patel's tweet image. Sanctions are becoming a go-to policing instrument... BUT their effectiveness is questionable and they lead to big declines in living standards in target countries -  especially for vulnerable groups. 
Powerful synthesis of 32 studies by @frrodriguezc - cepr.net/report/the-hum…

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📢 #WeekendReading Power, Poverty, and Knowledge – Reflecting on 50 Years of Learning with Robert Chambers. This collection of the IDS Bulletin in a celebration of Robert’s contribution to the journal over the last five decades. Read 👉 bulletin.ids.ac.uk/index.php/idsb… #Participation

IDS_UK's tweet image. 📢 #WeekendReading

Power, Poverty, and Knowledge – Reflecting on 50 Years of Learning with Robert Chambers.

This collection of the IDS Bulletin in a celebration of Robert’s contribution to the journal over the last five decades. 

Read 👉 bulletin.ids.ac.uk/index.php/idsb…

#Participation

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“Productivity is a trap. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply makes them fill up again faster.” Superb read for your Monday themarginalian.org/2021/12/20/fou…


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What is the lived experience of people getting #cashtransfers? "High confidence" results from review of 41 #health studies: 🟢immediate needs 🟢long-term outcomes 🟢recipient agency 🔴low amount 🔴stigma 🔴socially divisive eligibility Yoshino et al cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.10…

Ugentilini's tweet image. What is the lived experience of people getting #cashtransfers?

"High confidence" results from review of 41 #health studies:

🟢immediate needs
🟢long-term outcomes
🟢recipient agency 

🔴low amount
🔴stigma
🔴socially divisive eligibility

Yoshino et al cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.10…

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