In the first report by International Sustainable Food Systems Panel (IPES-Food), they are calling for intensive and industrial agricultural practices to be left behind to make food systems more ethical and address some of biggest challenges faced by the global community.
2 June 2016
As the G7 summit gets underway IDS Director, Professor Melissa Leach and researchers Deepta Chopra and Annie Wilkinson explain the development priorities the G7 should focus on.
25 May 2016
The IDS Annual Lecture is being launched this July, with guest speaker James Ferguson.
23 May 2016
IDS’ latest Rapid Response Briefing looks at the role of the EU in international development.
20 May 2016
IDS, IDRC and Oxfam invite you to be part of process to galvanise discussion around transforming the dynamics in the care economy.
20 May 2016
As part of IDS’s 50th Anniversary celebrations, we re-launched our flagship publication, the IDS Bulletin as an open access journal. Not only are all issues published from 2016 now freely accessible online, but we have also digitised the entire back catalogue. Find out more...
19 May 2016
The Ebola Response Anthropology Platform and the related Ebola: lessons for development initiatives have been shortlisted for the prestigious Economic and Social Research Council Outstanding International Impact Prize.
12 May 2016
New IDS research reveals that the real motivations behind Latin America’s protests relate not to absolute levels of inequality but to individual’s perceptions of inequality and their beliefs around how income should be distributed.
10 May 2016
Health Systems Global has chosen Liverpool as the host city for its fifth global symposium on health systems research in 2018. The winning bid was put forward by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, in close cooperation with a consortium of UK institutions including the London School of...
6 May 2016
At 50 years old, the Institute of Development Studies is ‘looking back, in order to look forward’. The latest IDS Bulletin, entitled ‘Development Studies – Past, Present and Future’ aims to trace the history of development studies by bringing together two generations of scholars –...
5 May 2016
IDS Alumni Ambassadors from across the global south have been holding events around the Sustainable Development Goals to mark IDS' 50th year.
5 May 2016
Dr Stephen Devereux, IDS research fellow, has been announced as a South Africa-UK bilateral research chair as part of the Newton Fund and National Research Foundation (NRF) UK-SA Bilateral Research Chair initiative (SARChi).
4 May 2016