IDS Bulletin
The IDS Bulletin brings together the latest thinking and research from programmes and events at IDS and presents them in an accessible way for development practitioners, policymakers and researchers. It is the flagship publication of the Institute of Development Studies.
For nearly 40 years it has covered the major themes and influenced debates within international development. Each thematic issue is edited by IDS Research Fellow(s), drawing on contributions from within IDS and its global network of partners and collaborators within the sphere of development research, policy and practice.
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Seeing the Unseen: Breaking the Logjam of Undernutrition in Pakistan
After a lost decade, there is clearly a groundswell of momentum for nutrition in Pakistan, driven by a confluence of policy, evidence and events. This momentum needs to be sustained at the national level, reinforced at the provincial and sub-provincial levels, and converted into action. More details
Real Time Monitoring for the Most Vulnerable
Developing real time information streams is about new ways of collecting traditional data, and of facilitating the sharing of existing data and knowledge across sectors and institutions. More details
Piecing it Together: Post-Conflict Security in an Africa of Networked, Multilevel Governance
How do, could and should institutions responsible for security and the management of conflict in Tropical African societies respond to violent conflict? More details
Young People and Agriculture in Africa
The articles in this IDS Bulletin are drawn from the conference on 'Young People, Farming and Food' in Accra, Ghana. This conference examined how young people engage with the agri-food sector in Africa and how research findings were being integrated into policy processes. More details
Ending Hunger and Malnutrition
The first article in this virtual IDS Bulletin is by Michael Lipton and dates from 1982. In that year the WHO stunting rate for children of preschool age in sub-Saharan Africa was 39 per cent. In 2012 the rate is still 39 per cent. More details
New Roles for Communication in Development?
This Bulletin explores the significant shift in the landscape of research communications in development in recent years and how this might give us new understandings of what drives social change and policy influence. More details
Standing on the Threshold: Food Justice in India
India stands on the threshold of potentially the largest step toward food justice the world has ever seen, as the National Food Security Bill works its way through parliament with a view to being passed during its current term period, covering about 70 per cent of households. More details
Hybrid Security Orders in Sub-Saharan Africa
This IDS Bulletin focuses on both formal and informal governance mechanisms which characterise African security systems. More details
Action Research for Development and Social Change
Contributors to this IDS Bulletin reflect on both the theory and the practice of action research for development and social change, as we engage in it today. More details
'Some for All?' Politics and Pathways in Water and Sanitation
This IDS Bulletin looks back at the legacy of the UN’s New Delhi 1990 global consultation and the Dublin Conference that followed, assessing their meaning and significance, and challenging the wider global water and sanitation community to rethink approaches and emphases, shifting from targets and pronouncement to sustainability and local knowledge. More details
The Pulse of Egypt’s Revolt
How do we explain the way in which change unfolded in the wake of the recent Egyptian uprisings? More details
The Pulse of Egypt’s Revolt
How do we explain the way in which change unfolded in the wake of the recent Egyptian uprisings? More details
Social Protection for Social Justice
The articles in this IDS Bulletin are drawn from a conference hosted by the Centre for Social Protection at IDS in April 2011. More details
Time to Reimagine Development
The major global crises of the past four years have collectively had a dramatic impact on people's lives and livelihoods – but have they also had a large impact on core ideas underlying mainstream development? More details
The Politics of Seed in Africa’s Green Revolution
This IDS Bulletin takes one element of a bigger debate - the future of cereal seed systems in Africa - and examines some of the challenges, dilemmas, prospects and possibilities for the future, deploying an explicitly critical analytical lens to look at the political economy of seed systems in Africa's Green Revolution. More details
Political Economy of Climate Change
Despite the inherently political nature of international negotiations on climate change, much of the theory, debate, evidence-gathering and implementation linking climate change and development assume a largely apolitical and linear policy process. More details
Working with the Grain? Rethinking African Governance
At the heart of current policy thinking about Africa there is a significant knowledge gap concerning governance and development. This IDS Bulletin is concerned with what can be done about that, drawing on the initial experience of a new research venture, the Africa Power and Politics Programme (APPP). More details
Religion, Rights and Gender at the Crossroads
This IDS Bulletin questions what the intersection of global, local and national politics means for policy and practice in the realm of religion and gender. More details
People-centred M&E: Aligning Incentives So Agriculture Does More to Reduce Hunger
This seminal IDS Bulletin provide systematic evidence to lay open the widely shared secret among development practitioners that the cupboard of agricultural monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is bare. More details
Quotas: Add Women and Stir?
This IDS Bulletin explores what the quota has meant as a motorway to women's accession to political power by drawing on research findings from the Pathways of Women's Empowerment Research Programme Consortium. More details