With the world’s eighth largest economy, sixth largest population and fifth largest land area, what happens in Brazil matters for development worldwide.
In recent years it has shown its ability to be both a beacon of inspiration and innovation for international development and an exemplar of some of the most severe global threats to sustainability and inclusion.
The Brazil IDS Initiative is a network of partnerships which focus on knowledge sharing, mutual learning and collaboration to develop new approaches to tackling issues such as climate change, poverty and injustice.
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Featured publications
Brazil is recognised as a world leader in the production of agri-food commodities in large, highly mechanised farms, but also as a centre of resistance movements advocating for land rights and food sovereignty. Brazil’s portrayal as a success story of…
06 February 2023
events
Watch now https://youtu.be/unPN93hiVtE Just over a year out from the COP30 climate conference in Belém, unprecedented drought and devastating fires have reminded the world that the Amazon rainforest is still critically threatened, despite recent efforts by the Brazilian government to…
02 October 2024
Opinion
Hunger, poverty and inequality are not only pervasive global development challenges but also urgent issues within the UK, where an estimated eight million struggle daily with economic hardship and food insecurity, and the richest 10 percent hold 43 percent of…
Lídia Cabral & 5 others
18 July 2024
Opinion
Demands from social movements, community leaders and civil society organisations are rarely made in isolation, but rather as part of a broader agenda in a struggle for equitable citizenship. The grassroots social innovations that emerged in the context of the…
Beatriz Rodrigues Sanchez & 2 others
13 June 2024
Opinion
Across São Paulo several grassroots social innovations emerged as response to the crises produced or aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition to food distribution, which played a crucial role in reducing food insecurity in most communities, the intersectoral coordination…
13 June 2024
Opinion
In times of global adversity social inequalities become even more evident, especially in urban peripheries. Across the city of São Paulo different civil society organisations, such as social movements, were busy helping and welcoming the most vulnerable during the Covid-19…
Isis Domingues & 2 others
13 June 2024
Opinion
The lack of integrated public policies and easy access to citizens is nothing new when it comes to the most vulnerable populations. This was visible in Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic not only in its dramatic figures with the second…
13 June 2024
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IDS and the Centre for Sustainable Development at the University of Brasília are partners in convening a dialogue on sustainable agri-food development trajectories in Brazil, with a focus on the role of science, technology and knowledge. Brazil has become a…
projects
What constitutes meaningful participation in the economic sphere and how it might be enabled? In this project IDS draws upon and expands its rich experience at the forefront of thinking about participation in development, and our emerging work at the…
projects
The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) and Jodie Thorpe of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) partnered together to deploy the 'ANDE/IDS Gender Inclusion and Investing for Brazilian SGBs in the Creative Economy' project. This project was funded by…
projects
The aim of this project is to promote well-informed dialogue and collaboration between affected groups and service-providers about the biological, social and emotional effects of Zika. The research will pursue an understanding of therapeutic itineraries of affected populations and their…
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