International partnerships have played an important role in academic research about the African continent. While funding sources have diversified, a significant share of these partnerships are resourced through European and North American international aid and its renewed interest in...
24 May 2022
For months India and Pakistan have been dealing with a brutal heatwave, with record-breaking highs of 49 degrees Celsius in April in Pakistan. As the effects of climate change become more severe in the region, we ask how preparedness needs to be reconfigured, accounting for the impact of...
24 May 2022
Climate change is generating greater variability within and across seasons. This is requiring new responses among farmers in Masvingo province in Zimbabwe. Today, farmers must adapt, be flexible and agile and respond to uncertain seasons as they unfold. This requires new skills and approaches;...
23 May 2022
The book “La terra dentro il capitale. Conflicts, ecological crisis and development in the Senegal delta“, (Land and capitalism. Conflict, Ecological Crisis, and Development in the Senegal Delta) written by Maura Benegiamo and published by Orthotes (2021), focuses on the relationships...
20 May 2022
Sanitation workers in the Global South are some of the most marginalised people in the world. People from stigmatised castes, such as Dalits and Harijans, make up the majority of the sanitation workforce in India and Nepal. The children of manual scavengers can seldom escape sanitation work,...
19 May 2022
It is by now a truism that the Covid-19 pandemic amplified already-existing inequities of all kinds, whether in its immediate impacts on individual health, or in the secondary impacts of pandemic-related disruptions. Those who were poor got poorer. Those who were vulnerable to...
18 May 2022
According to a recent global survey “distrust is now society’s default emotion”. Whilst this is a grand claim, it does emphasise the importance of placing trust at the heart of efforts to bring about positive change, as has been evidenced through the diverse projects of the Covid...
18 May 2022
There is a huge government and aid machinery to respond to ‘drought’ in Zimbabwe. Humanitarian relief, cash-plus transfer schemes, shock-responsive aid, anticipatory action, insurance products, climate-smart development and much, much more, with millions of dollars spent. But what is...
16 May 2022
Kenya is not the only country where conservancies have been used. In the weeks before visiting Laikipia, I had been in Zimbabwe. There are of course many resonances with the land story there. Similar settler colonial histories, a racialised pattern of landholding, populist political rhetoric...
13 May 2022
65 million Indians reside in urban slums. These densely populated informal settlements, which house 22% of India’s population, were deeply affected by the first and second Covid-19 waves. With no security blanket and inadequate health infrastructure, urban slum residents were left to fend for...
12 May 2022
This week the University of Sussex, in partnership with the Institute of Development of Studies (IDS), has been named best in the world for development studies in the 2022 QS World University Rankings. This ranking – achieved for the sixth year in a row - reflects the strength of our...
11 May 2022
10 May 2022