We are delighted to announce that our MA Food & Development – delivered in partnership with the University of Sussex – is changing name to MA Food Systems & Sustainable Development to better reflect the content of the course.
The sudden collapse of USAID in 2025 sent shockwaves through Uganda’s HIV response and the people hardest hit are those the system was already failing. Listen to this episode on your favourite podcast provider: Acast | Spotify | Apple | YouTube | Soundcloud When Elon Musk...
10 September 2026
How do humanitarian practitioners turn real-world frustrations into research questions? To mark World Humanitarian Day, IDS Research Fellow Philip Proudfoot joined students Romy Massaad and Erry Hakiki for a conversation about humanitarian research, dissertation journeys and what it means to...
19 August 2026
As climate shocks become more frequent across East and Southern Africa, building resilience is critical to reducing poverty and improving wellbeing. Listen to this episode on your favourite podcast provider: Acast | Spotify | Apple | YouTube | Soundcloud In this episode of the...
17 August 2026
IDS has become an official member of the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty, following widespread engagement by IDS researchers to support the aims of the Alliance since its launch at the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 2024. Recent crises have stalled progress to end poverty and...
5 August 2026
The International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD), based at IDS, has officially released its major report, Taxing Smarter: Advancing Reform Through Research and Partnership. This comprehensive publication serves as both a reflection on 15 years of rigorous research, a celebration of...
3 August 2026
IDS staff and students have put together an essential reading and listening list for the year so far. From AI and climate change to colonialism and gender, these books and podcasts tackle the ideas shaping our world today. Thought-provoking and insightful, they explore both historical...
30 July 2026
Andy Burnham’s first Labour party conference speech as Prime Minister offered something that British politics has lacked for too long: some serious plans for social care, housing, water and opportunities for young people. These are the everyday essentials that we all need for a decent life, and put together they begin to lay the foundations of a new infrastructure of nurture, designed to help people realise their potential from cradle to grave.
Millions of people are entitled to public services and benefits, from subsidised food rations to maternity payments and child nutrition services. Yet for many, especially the poor, these entitlements remain out of reach, often because they do not know what they are owed, or fear speaking up when...
1 October 2026
The new Zimbabwe Growth and Jobs Report from the World Bank argues for a major structural transformation of the economy, taking advantage of the recent period of relative macroeconomic stability and new prospects for debt and arrears clearance. However, the big unanswered question is:...
15 September 2026
Andy Burnham became Prime Minister with a pledge to decentralise decision-making away from Westminster and into the hands of regions, hailing it as the “biggest rebalancing of power our country has seen”. Putting this policy at the heart of his domestic ‘Manchesterism’ agenda presents an...
14 September 2026
The transition to clean energy, digital infrastructure, militarisation in defence and artificial intelligence all depend on minerals whose extraction is disproportionately concentrated in resource-rich developing economies. As innovation accelerates in these sectors, so does pressure to expand...
11 September 2026
What have we learned from our study, 25 years after land reform in Zimbabwe? Drawing on the research that we have been doing since the early 2000s, we wanted to highlight some of the key findings. Alport Ndebele and team put together an excellent short video offering some highlights. There will...
10 September 2026
The glacial collapse and catastrophic floods in Nepal and Tibet are not isolated tragedies. They reflect accelerating climate disruption that disproportionately affects countries and people least responsible for global emissions. Such cascading catastrophic events are not ‘natural...
4 September 2026