China and Brazil are set to increase their influence in Africa, with the recently launched New Development Bank opening offices in Johannesburg this month and preparing to issue its first loans in April. New research on “China and Brazil in African Agriculture” published in acclaimed...
10 March 2016
The Contested Agronomy conference, which took place on 23-25 February at IDS brought together over 80 participants from 18 countries to examine the politics of knowledge within the field of development-oriented agronomy where the question of how to improve farming to feed and sustain people in...
8 March 2016
A new IDS Bulletin entitled Connecting Perspectives on Women’s Empowerment makes a timely contribution to our understanding of how ideas around empowerment have evolved and how we can move forward to expand women’s opportunities and choices and realise women’s empowerment in a meaningful way.
8 March 2016
Staff express their solidarity with students and teachers at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India.
4 March 2016
A new Edited Collection from IDS entitled Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice: What’s Law Got to Do with It? highlights the scope and limitations of the legal and policy frameworks on which we are often reliant to advance gender and sexuality justice.
1 March 2016
A new South Asia Sustainability Hub was launched on 28 January in Delhi, as part of a global network convened by the STEPS Centre.
22 February 2016
In a recent interview with the BBC World Service’s flagship discussion programme, The Forum, Lyla Mehta, IDS Professorial Research Fellow, argued that the lack of access to basic necessities of water and sanitation is a horrific crime of our time.
9 February 2016
Our flagship publication, the IDS Bulletin, was officially re-launched as an open access journal at the British Library, last week.Moving from a subscription-based to open access journal will make it more widely available to non-academic audiences and as well as researchers globally.
8 February 2016
A IDS new briefing calls for PrEP medication to complement rather than undermine condom use to protect the health of sex workers.
4 February 2016
Digital jobs are seen as a key opportunity for the growing population of young people in Africa but a new Rapid Response Briefing cautions against viewing digital jobs as a silver bullet.
2 February 2016
UK parliamentary reports on Ebola cite the crucial role that social science and anthropology played in mounting an effective response to the unprecedented crisis.
28 January 2016
IDS graduates travelled from around the world to celebrate with family and friends to graduate at the Brighton Dome.
25 January 2016
