A new study of innovative, grassroots food projects in cities across the world - filling the gap left by insufficient state support for those in food insecurity - suggests that they provide more dignity and choice than standard foodbank models. The projects all made efforts to replicate a...
22 May 2025
As Palestinians today mark the 77th anniversary of the Nakba – the expulsion of Palestinian Arabs from their homeland in 1948 – IDS researchers share their commentary on the current siege of Gaza by Israel. Since the ceasefire collapsed in March 2025, Israel has blocked any...
15 May 2025
Digital accessibility is a prominent topic this year, highlighting the importance of creating and sharing content that is perceivable, operable and understandable by all users. More often than not the focus is on forthcoming legislation, such as the European Accessibility Act which will come...
15 May 2025
A new initiative called NOURISH has been established to find a new way of working to achieve equitable wellbeing for all. The initiative comprises of a collective of people from around the world, including Brazil, New Zealand, UK, Canada and Sweden, who are practitioners, researchers and...
8 May 2025
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...
30 April 2025
The Institute of Development Studies is pleased to announce the official launch of the new HeatNexus website — a central platform for sharing the work of nine global research projects focused on heat adaptation and health. Explore the website As extreme heat becomes a more common and...
16 April 2025
On 25 February 2025, the University of Duhok hosted a conference titled ‘Preserving Cultural Heritage in Kurdistan - Iraq’. This event, organised in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies, marked the end of the Middle East People’s Culture Conservation Collective (MEPCCC)...
15 April 2025
IDS researchers are calling for a renewed focus on climate finance commitments to support adaptation and loss for those worst impacted by climate change, amid widespread cuts to development budgets. One researcher describes recent Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding cuts to climate...
10 April 2025
IDS graduates Callum Chapman and Norma Jean Park (MA Food & Development, Class of 2024) were lead authors on the IDS Working Paper Towards Transformative Change: Grass-roots Innovations for Food Security During Crises in Brighton & Hove, UK. This Working Paper analyses the emergence and...
7 April 2025
President Donald Trump announced a suite of tariffs on Wednesday (2 April), claiming that they would address trade imbalances and bring manufacturing and jobs back to the US. The tariffs, framed as being 'reciprocal tariffs', are due to be implemented from 9 April, range from 10 percent to as...
4 April 2025
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....
1 April 2025
Gauthier Marchais, Research Fellow at IDS, has won the Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) for his work on education in crises. Gauthier was named alongside co-editors Mary Mendenhall from Columbia University, Yusuf Sayed from the...
27 March 2025
