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Institute of Development Studies news and analysis

Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction Team News - May 2013

24 May 13 Welcome to the latest News updates from the VPR Team More details

Institute of Development Studies news and analysis

Prestigious Fulbright scholarship awarded for social activist to study at IDS

23 May 13 Scholarship awarded to social activist to study at IDS More details

Squeezed. Illustration by Tessa Lewin

Risky jobs, hunger rations and domestic violence: new IDS research reveals the 'hidden' social costs of today's high food prices

23 May 13 New IDS-Oxfam research reveals how the failure of wages to keep pace with five years of food price rises is squeezing the lives of poor people. More details

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New at IDS - May 2013

22 May 13 New at IDS - The latest news, publications, event and research from the Institute of Development Studies. More details

Kolo Toure, Ivorian international footballer visits children at a school in Yopougon, Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire on 8th October 2012. Kolo took part in a lesson about nutrition.
Credit: Gouegnon Thierry/Save the Children

Nutrition champion awards 2013

20 May 13 The research consortium Transform Nutrition, in which IDS is a partner, has teamed up with the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement to launch a new initiative to find the 'unsung heroes' of nutrition at national or local levels. More details

Frontier Province (NWFP) in Pakistan. Evening prayers in a mosque. Credit: Piers Benatar / Panos

New briefing on Islam, sexual diversity and access to health services launched on International Day Against Homophobia

17 May 13 A new publication examines ways of bridging the gap between Islamic scripture and the lived realities of men who have sex with men (MSM). More details

Lawrence Haddad at Alumni launch event for the Scholarship Fund

A new scholarship fund has been announced that will assist students from poorer backgrounds

17 May 13 IDS launches new scholarship fund to ensure most talented students are able to study at IDS irrespective of financial circumstances. More details

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IDS Update - May 2013

17 May 13 Monthly email newsletter from IDS. More details

Centre for Social Protection logo, IDS Research

CSP Newsletter 24 - May 2013

16 May 13 The CSP is a global network of academics, policy-makers, NGOs and others who are working together to mainstream social protection in development policy and build social protection systems and instruments throughout the developing world that are national, comprehensive, long-term, sustainable, and benefit the poor. More details

Nepal protesters - photo credit: GMB Akash / Panos

Making All Voices Count: supporting innovations for social change

13 May 13 IDS is delighted to announce that, together with HIVOS and Ushahidi, we will be managing the Making All Voices Count fund. More details

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Local accountabilities in Bangladesh. Credit: Helvetas

Local Accountabilities in Fragile Contexts: Experiences from Nepal, Bangladesh and Mozambique

29 Apr 13 Newly published research by IDS and Helvetas on local accountabilities in fragile contexts reveals there is still much to learn about accountability in its many forms. More details

China luxury housing development

UNDP Director, Khalid Malik reflects on emerging economies and development

26 Apr 13 Listen to Khalid Malik's seminar on China's growth and interview with Richard Jolly on what the rise of emerging economies means for development. More details

Minister Friis Bach, co-Chair of the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding. Neal Piper / NewDeal4Peace.

A New Deal for peace and stability in fragile states

22 Apr 13 Ahead of the 3rd Global Meeting of the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding, IDS's Jeremy Allouche interviewed the Dialogue’s co-Chair, Minister Christian Friis Bach about his hopes for the meeting. More details

SUDAN. Lo'ay Ahmad (left) and Hind Ibrahim relaxing at Ozone, Khartoum's premier outdoor cafe, complete with Wi-Fi internet access and water vapour air conditioning.
Photo: Andrew McConnell / Panos

How do you like our improved website?

22 Apr 13 Tell us what you think of the improved website and your feedback could help further improve it for the future. More details

Women maintaining solar panels

Tackling climate change must be about people and politics not just science

22 Apr 13 IDS debate asks whether efforts to tackle climate change are too focused on science, and overlook what we already know about reducing vulnerabilities. More details

Boy clearing ground to grow rice, Laos. Chris Stowers/ Panos

Creating climate justice - three challenges

16 Apr 13 The Dublin conference on hunger, nutrition and climate justice, currently underway, aims to inspire innovative thinking and solutions, by bringing together global development leaders with people at the receiving end of the effects of climate change and food and nutrition insecurity. More details

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Climate Change update - April 2013

15 Apr 13 All the latest Climate Change news from IDS. More details

Photo of Andrew Newsham, IDS Climate Change researcher

Video: Climate knowledge exchange

15 Apr 13 In March, the Climate Change Team held a knowledge exchange. Some of the participants shared their experience in these video interviews. More details

Graduate student David Ngunga, 36, holds a scoop of dried cassava tops at the Sokoine University of Agriculture. The university is a centre of research for the International Research and Development Centre's (IDRC) Integrated Root Crop and Goat Breeding Program, which seeks to provide improved food security and nutrition for Tanzanian farmers. Cassava, an important element of the project, can be produced locally, then dried and used by farmers to replace imported sunflower seed cakes as a nutritional supplement for goat kids. Image Credit: Brian Sokol / Panos

From farm to fork: placing nutrition at the heart of agricultural planning

15 Apr 13 New field tool analyses and enhances the nutritional quality of food through agriculture. It was designed by John Humphrey and Spencer Henson from Globalisation, in partnership with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). More details

FAC conference 2013, by Future Agricultures

How do politics and agriculture mix in Africa?

11 Apr 13 What motivates African politicians to invest in agriculture in particular ways? This was the focus of a recent Future Agricultures-led international conference last month in South Africa. More details

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