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Whether linked to water or land, forests or food, urbanisation or disease, rapid environmental change is posing major challenges for development policy.

With social systems also changing rapidly, the core development challenges of alleviating poverty and inequity are increasingly complex. IDS research seeks to expose these new challenges and explore ways of meeting them. Our approach enables a distinctive contribution to sustainability debates, as well as to broader discussions of changing relationships between science, society and participation.

Our major areas of work include: climate change, energy, water and sanitation, agriculture and food, health and disease, sustainable livelihoods, the Rio+20 process and beyond, and the completion of a decade's work on environmental policy processes.

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Agricultural Biotechnology & Policy Processes in Developing Countries

Modern agricultural biotechnology has profound implications for global and local agricultural and food systems, and for the livelihoods of farmers in the developed and developing worlds. The actual consequences will depend on the pathways along which the technology is developed and applied in practice. More details

ALINe

There is a new and widespread commitment within the development community to invest in agriculture as a way of reducing poverty and hunger. Three quarters of the one billion people surviving on less than $1 a day live and work in rural areas, and most rely on agriculture for their food and income. Investing in agriculture is key to lifting the world's poor out of hunger and poverty. More details

Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium

A consortium of researchers aiming to advance understanding of the connections between disease and environment in Africa, focusing on animal-to-human disease transmission.. More details

Environment and PRSPs

This research project was initiated and conceptualised in the framework of the Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP), an informal network of around 30-donor and non-governmental organisations that works on strengthening the nexus between poverty reduction and environmental protection in development cooperation. More details

Global Food and Farming Futures – Lead Expert Group

The Foresight Project on Global Food and Farming Futures addresses the question: ‘How can a future global population of 9 billion people all be fed healthily and sustainably?' More details

Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-Led Total Sanitation

Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is a participatory approach that started in Bangladesh and has been spread to varying degrees in India, Cambodia, Indonesia, China, Nepal. To a limited degree, it has also been trialled in some African countries. More details

Impact Assessment of the Draft Environmental Tax Law in Vietnam

Pro-Poor Electricity Provision

This programme will develop and promote evidence-based policy and programme guidance on low carbon energy investments to benefit poor people, especially women and girls. More details

Re-creating the State: Governance, Civil Society and Trust in Poland, Russia and Ukraine

This project is looking at tax collection, welfare distribution and environmental regulation to find out where transitional states should channel their limited resources in order to implement their policies. More details

Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS) Centre

The STEPS Centre is an interdisciplinary global research and policy engagement hub, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. It aims to develop a new approach to understanding, action and communication on sustainability and development. More details

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Rent Management – The Heart of Green Industrial Policy

 IDS Working Paper 418 (2013)
Schmitz, H., Johnson, O. and Altenburg, T.

The Challenge of Attracting High-Quality Technology Transfers to Non-BRIC Countries: Chile and its Emerging Wind Energy Industry

 In 'Educational and Technological Approaches to Renewable Energy' (2012)
Leal, W. and Gotwald, J.

Success making and success stories: agronomic research in the spottlight

 In 'Contested Agronomy: Agricultural Research in a Changing World' (2012)
Sumberg, J and Thompson, J.

Global Political Ecology

 (2011)
Peet, R., Robbins, P. and Watts, M.J.

Competition and Cooperation between Europe and China in the Wind Power Sector

 IDS Working Paper 377 (2011)
Lema, R., Berger, A., Schmitz, H. and Song, H.

The Politics of Seed in Africa’s Green Revolution

 IDS Bulletin 42.4 (2011)
Scoones, I. and Thompson, J.

Forest Voices: Competing Narratives over REDD+

 IDS Bulletin 42.3 (2011)
Hiraldo, R. and Tanner, T.

Shit Matters: The Potential of Community-Led Total Sanitation

 (2011)
Mehta, L. and Movik, S.

The Politics of Asbestos: Understandings of Risk, Disease and Protest

 (2011)
Waldman, L.

The Future of Food and Farming: Final Project Report

 (2011)
Foresight

The Limits to Scarcity: Contesting the Politics of Allocation

 (2010)
Mehta, L.

Imperfect Competition in the National Treasury CGE Model of South Africa: Documentation and Training Manual

 Report Commissioned by the World Bank for National Treasury, Republic of South Africa (2010)
Willenbockel, D.

A Tale of Two Milibands: from Environmental Citizenship to a Politics of the Common Good

 The Political Quarterly 81.4 (2010)
Lockwood, M.

Food Security and Global Environmental Change

 (2010)
Ingram, J., Ericksen, P. and Liverman, D.

The Future of the Global Food System

 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365.1554 (2010)
Godfray, H.C.J., Beddington, J.R., Crute, I.R., Haddad, L., Lawrence, D., Muir, J.F., Nisbett, N., Robinson, S., Toulmin, C. and Whiteley, R.

Forestry and REDD in Africa, Joto Afrika

 4 (2010)
Minang, P., Neufeldt, H. et all

Clean Development Mechanism in Sub-Saharan Africa and The Prospects Of The Nairobi Framework Initiative

 Climate Policy 10.2 (2010)
Byigero, A. D., Clancy, J. S. and Skutsch M. S.

Impact Assessment Report of Draft Environmental Tax Law in Vietnam

 (2010)
Willenbockel, D.

Water Rights and State Management in India and South Africa

 In 'Citizenship and Social Movements: Perspectives from the Global South' (2010)
Thompson, L. and Tapscott, C.

Chinese Rural Health System Development and Reform: a Perspective of Environment and Health

 Journal of Contemporary China 19(63) (2010)
Fang, J. and Bloom, G.
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