We invite you to attend the first webinar of the Food Solidarities Network, hosted by the UNESCO Chair in World Food Systems in partnership with the Food Equity Centre. Speakers Meike Brückner, postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin María Alonso Martinez,...
We would be honoured if you would join us for a parliamentary event sponsored by Lord Alton of Liverpool on 'Grooming, coerced marriage and conversion of minority women: Global Incidence and Evidence.' This discussion accompanies the ongoing targeting of minority women through...
By 2030, the vast majority of the world’s extreme poor are projected to live in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. This event from IDS-led Knowledge for Development and Diplomacy programme (K4DD) will explore the growing importance of these contexts, particularly for global development...
This event will explore the roots and legacy of the preference for 'green' landscapes and how this has shaped assumptions about desertification, degradation and pastoral ecosystems. Speakers Dr Igshaan Samuels is a PhD in Botany from the University of Cape Town; Professor Brahim El...
The Clean Energy for Development: A Call to Action (CEDCA) initiative, funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), supports 12 research projects that operate in 27 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Central and South America, and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)...
Each year we invite a prominent speaker on an issue relevant to international development to give the IDS Annual Lecture. These events are open to the public and available to attend in person and watch online. Past speakers include the President of the Republic of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado...
The Sussex Development Lecture series is an opportunity to hear from leading global thinkers on development. It is jointly run by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), the School of Global Studies, the Science Policy and Research Unit (SPRU) and the Centre for International Education...
The IDS Conflict, Violence and Development seminar series focuses on mass violent conflicts as well as every day forms of insecurity, looking at their relationship with poverty and development. It provides a forum to discuss the Institute's work in this area, as well as some exciting work on...
The Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development (CRPD) conducts and facilitates research on: the impact of the BRICS and other rapidly-changing and increasingly influential middle-income countries on low-income countries the need for the restructuring of global development...
Starting from a critical examination of the entrepreneurship initiatives, Dr Carla Corrochano presents the findings of research carried out with young people in Brazil’s outskirts, highlighting the various ways in which they earn a living, including through entrepreneurship, and how they...
Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from research labs into the hands of community health workers, clinics, and public health programmes that shape outcomes for billions of people. But, how do we know a product is ready for deployment – and who gets to decide? This event,...
As part of the REPAiR Project's series on 'rangeland myths', the fifth online conversation of 2026 explores the myth that 'people and livestock are bad for biodiversity'. Speakers: Pablo Manzano, Ikerbasque Fellow at the Basque Centre for Climate Change - BC3, Bilbao; Munib...
IDS was recently honoured to welcome the Hon. Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Dr Harini Amarasuriya to mark the 60th anniversary of IDS. In this special episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast we present the Prime Ministers speech and her discussion with IDS Director Anuradha Joshi. Listen...
Agriculture for development is entering a radically transformed global aid landscape. The world is changing faster than the institutions designed to support development and specifically agricultural development, food security, agrifood systems and poverty reduction. Progress has stalled for a...
IDS is honoured to welcome the Hon. Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Dr Harini Amarasuriya to mark the 60th anniversary of IDS. Join this event to hear Dr Harini Amarasuriya share her journey from her career as an academic and an activist before entering politics and being elected as Prime...
Join us for this book launch in which author Matthew Greenslade describes the damage being done by the World Bank's insistence on pursuing a poverty-targeted approach to social protection (social security, or the benefit system) in lower income countries. Watch...
Join us for this event between the editor of The July Resolve, and Bangladeshi academics on the role of testimonies and art play in preserving memories of the uprising, the dilemmas of curating and constructing memories, and what future holds for Bangladesh. Bangladesh went through a...