This seminar will showcase community-led innovations focused on enhancing equity and sustainability in food access in the city of Brighton & Hove. It will examine experiences that emerged in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and cost-of-living crisis, focusing on how communities responded to...
Join this high-level event Multilateralism at a crossroads: Transforming challenges into opportunities for a sustainable future, with senior representatives from Brazil, South Africa and Spain, along with expert speakers for discussion and Q&A. Multilateralism is facing significant...
This seminar explores how displacement and mobility shape children’s wellbeing, drawing on research with Syrian Armenian children and families who moved to Armenia following the Syrian war. It highlights the value of child-centred, participatory and intersectional approaches in humanitarian...
Join us for this seminar that explores different kinds of power relationships that influence people’s access to resources, livelihood options and sustainability outcomes. This seminar looks at a case study of aquaculture production systems in northern Vietnam and the power relationships...
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...
Watch again https://youtu.be/_ROl6XaJv6s We are delighted to invite you to attend the IDS launch of The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health (LCGGH) report. The rollback in gender rights and challenges to global health organisations around the world threatens to reverse...
Fifty years ago this year, Dr Budd Hall, then a visiting fellow at IDS, wrote what has come to be known the first published journal article on the idea of participatory research (PR). Since then, bringing together many different currents and influencers, PR has emerged as a major strategy and...
https://youtu.be/xtem1iwFy9k Talk by Indian seed sovereignty scholar and activist Dr. Debal Deb. Neolithic farmers created all the cultivated crop species from their wild progenitors. Generations of pre-industrial farmers since the Neolithic era have subsequently developed a legion of...
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS), in partnership with the University of Sussex, has been ranked first in the world for Development Studies in the QS World University Rankings for the ninth consecutive year. Together with the University of Sussex, we provide 29 postgraduate degrees...
Can principles of Community-led Development define the future of our sector? By introducing their recent publication, We Power our Own Change, authors in this seminar will reflect on the practices, insights, and the potential principles of Community-led Development and what it holds for the...
A poverty line of $6.85 a day, as used by the World Bank, indicates a substantial level of deprivation, impacting the lives of billions globally. Indeed, nearly half of the World’s population falls into this category. So, if poverty is something we all want to see less of, why does it prove so...
Join us for the launch of ‘Food Fight’ – a book by food and nutrition expert Stuart Gillespie that shines a light on the evolution of our global food system from its origins in colonial plunder through the last fifty years of neoliberalism, before concluding with a set of actions to put...
The fight against the climate crisis is undoubtedly one of environmental justice, questioning entrenched systems of power that create social, political and economic inequities across the world. While this challenge is well known, rarely do we see these power systems questioned and successfully...