Today’s youth generation holds a large stake in the future of sustainable agrifood systems worldwide. Youth are recognised as ...

World renowned economist, Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College ...

October 17 has been recognised as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty by the United Nations since 1992, ...

IDS has partnered with Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (FGV EAESP) on a double master’s programme, offering ...

This brief provides considerations around the humanitarian and policy implications of the general food and cash assistance (GFA) prioritisation strategy in Uganda’s refugee settlements. In light of ...

Using the case study of the Kibera slums, this paper takes a medical anthropological approach to discuss and explain the untold and common practice among the urban poor in developing countries that is ...

Where do you shit? In developing countries, the answer may determine whether you live or die. Around 2.6 billion people defecate in the open. The consequences are dire: shit carries disease and is a ...

has emerged around their relative efficacy. Some commentators see diversity as a continued source of strength, positioning foundations to address the complexity, contingency and negotiated nature of ...

Resilience has, in the past four decades, been a term increasingly employed throughout a number of sciences: psychology and ecology, most prominently. Increasingly one finds it in political science, ...

When it comes to elections, narrative building can go in either direction. Three more IDS alumni discuss elections.

This year, World Food Day is all about rights to food, celebrating the basic human rights that ensure all have access to healthy, nutritious, safe and culturally appropriate food always. As a result ...

In a series of policy briefs published for the T20, researchers from IDS and other Food Equity Centre partners have outlined policy options for strengthening equity food systems and their governance, ...