Turkey hosts many mobile pastoral communities, most of which have become sedentary over the last few centuries. Even the most well-known mobile pastoralist groups still operating in the country often face obstacles to their movements, with consequences for livelihoods, animals and...
2 June 2023
Recent blogs on this site have called for academic collaboration and policy coordination with China to address global challenges including climate change and biodiversity loss, pandemics and overuse of anti-microbials, and building sustainable food systems. Here we argue for the importance of...
2 June 2023
Our research explored how communities responded to two epidemics in Sierra Leone. Here we highlight some of our findings, emphasising the importance of taking note of what communities themselves infer from their experiences of epidemic diseases. Governments talk a good deal about pandemic...
1 June 2023
Some readers may be heading to the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) this week in Cologne, Germany, whether physically or online. The conference’s focus is ‘African futures’ and there is a fantastic set of panels planned, with a bewildering 1900 papers accepted! As the...
31 May 2023
Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development party (AKP) won the presidential election in Turkey on Sunday. Erdogan - serving as President or as Prime Minister of Türkiye for the past 20 years - has just been given another five-year term by Türkiye’s voters despite actively...
30 May 2023
As part of the Accountability and Responsiveness in Informal Urban Settlements for Equity in Health and Well-being (ARISE) project, of which IDS is a partner, Sadaf Khan reports on the disconnect between the UN’s definition of slums, and the diverse realities of these informal...
26 May 2023
The leading artist of the project, also a shepherd from the pastoralist community of Northern Spain, Fernando Garcia Dory, installed on the wall the plants brought from pastures of Boğatepe, along with lyrics of a local artistic verbal expression, bayatı or mani. Boğatepe Environment and...
26 May 2023
In fragile and conflict-affected north-eastern Nigeria, social assistance delivery has evolved from a near absence of any form of systematic and organised approach to a promising attempt to coordinate and deliver services to the most vulnerable populations in the region. After over a decade of...
25 May 2023
Now that Covid-19 has officially become an established health issue, and no longer a public health emergency of international concern, this is an important time to act, learn lessons and collate knowledge gained from our experiences. Together with 50 researchers from 25 countries, across six...
25 May 2023
The refresh of the UK Integrated Review makes clear the UK is reappraising its relationship with China. The latest iteration gives more emphasis to diplomacy, dialogue and engagement. There is a need to think through how the UK engages China on a range of ‘global challenges’. This blog...
23 May 2023
Anywhere in the world, knowledge translation (KT) is facilitated through a process of communicating messages to an audience, who will ultimately use that information to inform their own opinions and actions. However, the way that information is perceived, digested, discussed, and passed on is...
23 May 2023
I recently wrote an article for The Conversation together with Tahira Mohamed on the drought situation in Kenya. We’d spent a few weeks in Isiolo and Marsabit counties exploring ‘resilience projects’ alongside local responses by pastoralists. The disconnect was extreme and many people...
22 May 2023