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...
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...
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...
Hear Manuela Caiani, Associate Professor in Political Science at the Scuola Normale Superiore discuss how far-right political movements and ideas are spreading internationally. The transnationalisation of illiberal parties and social movements is increasingly evident in Europe. Not only do they...
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...
In this Sussex Development Lecture, Professor Sonjah Stanley Niaah, discussed the reparation movement, including its achievements to date, the new opportunities for engagement on the issue and the outlook for the future against resistance from Governments of former colonial powers. Watch...
Join Dr. Sheila Tolentino Barbosa, from the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) as she talks about the Public Policy Catalogue which is a digital platform that compiles information on public policies implemented in Brazil in recent decades. This is to enable the systematisation and...
In the highly insecure borderlands of Somalia and North-Eastern Kenya, communities are driving their own governance and resilience, repairing social and physical damage in a context of violence and in the absence of formal state structures. This event explored insights from a new policy brief,...
Humanitarian diplomacy is a broad landscape and possibly one with internal contradictions. For example, traditionally humanitarian agencies have sought to distance themselves from mediation and human rights activism. The concept of humanitarian diplomacy requires at least an end to these silos....
Watch now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0iSMnq8ZMQ Sri Lanka is often perceived as an exemplary country where social welfare has been an integral component of state policy since its independence in 1948. Government provision of education and healthcare is free. There is no overt...
