RECENT PUBLICATIONS

For an exhaustive list of publications, you can find out more on Google Scholar or ResearchGate. Email rbeznerkerr@cornell.edu if you would like a copy of any of the papers.

1.     Kpienbaareh, D., I. Luginaah & R. Bezner Kerr. 2024. Considerations for enhancing participation and data accuracy in geospatial research in rural areas: experiences with PGIS in northern Malawi, African Geographical Review, DOI:10.1080/19376812.2024.2423288.

2.     Kansanga, M. M., Banda, D., Mkandawire, P., Kpienbaareh, D., Bezner Kerr, R., & Luginaah, I. 2024. Tacit evasion or a misplaced policy gaze: a political ecology of the deforestation and charcoal conundrum in Malawi. Geographical Review, 1–26. https://doi-org./10.1080/00167428.2024.2405213

3.     Madsen, S., R. Bezner Kerr, K. Kamilia, M. Fernanda Cevallos, M. L. Paracchini and A. Wezel. Can agroecology support sustainable development for Africa? A review. Agronomy for Sustainable Development (forthcoming).

4.     Gurney-Smith, H., Hasegawa, T., and Bezner Kerr, R. 2024. Editorial overview: Navigating climate challenges for the future of food systems. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 69, 101450.

6.     Kpienbaareh, D., Bezner Kerr, R., Nyantakyi-Frimpong, H., Iverson, A., Luginaah, I., Lupafya, E., Dakishoni, L., & Shumba, L. 2024. Ecosystem service demand and supply dynamics under different farming systems: A participatory GIS assessment in Malawi. Applied Geography, 171, 103372. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103372

7.     Kpienbaareh, Daniel, Kamaldeen Mohammed, Isaac Luginaah, Jinfei Wang, Rachel Bezner Kerr, Esther Lupafya, Laifolo Dakishoni. 2024. Local actors, farmer decisions and landscape crop diversity in smallholder farming systems: A systems perspective. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 374: 109138. DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2024.109138

8.     Owoputi, I., J. Hoddinott, R. Kayanda, R. Bezner Kerr, and K. Dickin. 2024. Community Health Workers’ Targeting of Women For Health and Nutrition Home Visits in Rural Tanzania: A Mixed-Methods Study. Current Developments in Nutrition 8 (6):103780. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2475299124017141.

9.     Brock, S., L. Baker, A. Jekums, F. Ahmed, M. Fernandez, M. Montenegro de Wit, F. J. Rosado-May, V. E. Méndez, C. R. Anderson, F. DeClerck, M. D. Anderson, R. Bezner Kerr, B. Hoare, H. Wittman, A. Peeters, P. Gubbels, C. Stancu, S. Bellon, J. G. Lundgren, S. Renduchintala, V. Thallam, J. Maland Cady, and P. Rogé. 2024. Knowledge democratization approaches for food systems transformation. Nature Food 5 (5):342–345. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-00966-3

10.  Owoputi, I., R. Kayanda, R. Bezner Kerr, J. Dismas, P. Ganyara, J. Hoddinott, and K. Dickin. 2024. Gender differences in perceptions of “joint” decision-making about spending money among couples in rural Tanzania ed. M. K. Bashir. PLOS ONE 19 (6):e0302071. https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0302071.  

11.  Rasmussen, Laura Vang, Ingo Grass, Zia Mehrabi, Olivia M. Smith, Rachel Bezner Kerr et al. 2024. Agricultural diversification strategies promote environmental and social synergies. Science 384,87-93. DOI:10.1126/science.adj1914.

12.  Steffan-Dewenter, I., R. Bezner Kerr, and M. K. Peters. 2024. Insect diversity for agroecosystem resilience in a changing climate. One Earth 7 (4):541–544. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2590332224001325.

13.  Kansanga, M. M., R. Bezner Kerr, E. Lupafya, L. Dakishoni, and I. Luginaah. 2024. Can gender transformative agroecological interventions improve women’s autonomy? Agriculture and Human Values 41 (3):1161–1175. https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10460-024-10544-9.  

14.  Bezner Kerr, R. and R. Wynberg.** 2024. Fields of Contestation and Contamination: Maize seeds, agroecology and the (de)coloniality of agriculture in Malawi and South Africa. Elementa, Science of the Anthropocene. 12(1):1-21. Doi: 10.1525/elementa.2023.00051 **equal contributors.