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Unlocking the power of social protection

Two decades ago, IDS published a working paper called ‘Transformative Social Protection’ that would prove to have enormous influence on social protection thinking and development policy. The fundamental idea was that social protection should extend beyond its narrow initial focus on...

Jeremy Lind & 3 others

28 October 2024

Opinion

Navigating uncertainty: a blog compilation

Over the last 8 weeks I have provided a summary of each of the chapters of my new book, Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World. Published by Polity Books, it came out in Europe in August and in the US in October. It’s free to download or you can buy a copy with a...

Ian Scoones

28 October 2024

Opinion

Global health must be a central pillar of the UK’s reengagement with China

Following Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s visit to Beijing as part of an effort to normalise relations, we need to think through reengagement with China on global health and development. This is important given the background of huge global challenges and a contested international landscape...

Lewis Husain

Professor Richard Sullivan

24 October 2024

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Research and action to tackle antimicrobial resistance and infectious diseases

The 21st century has seen an upsurge in health threats which are complex both in their origins and how they play out in the world. Better understanding of these threats and who they effect, when and why, is essential if people and governments are to be best prepared for them, responses are to be...

Syed Abbas & 3 others

24 October 2024

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Is extreme rainfall leading to ‘green drought’ in Western India?

Climate change is causing shifts in rainfall patterns across the world, damaging agriculture and livelihoods and impacting millions of lives globally. In India, farmers in rural Gujarat are caught in a cycle of droughts and floods, and increasingly frame the impacts of these co-located hazards...

Shilpi Srivastava & 3 others

24 October 2024

Opinion

Why don’t governments collect more revenue? The answer is complex but here are some new insights

Why don’t governments collect more tax revenue? This question is particularly relevant to lower income countries as many of their governments collect only a small proportion of their respective GDPs, sometimes less than 10%. But their needs for more development finance seem to be very...

Bernard Baimwera

Mick Moore

22 October 2024

Opinion

Disability as an international development issue: an IDS perspective

It is often assumed that people with disabilities are a small minority group. However, the latest global estimates are that they make up on average 16% of populations or more in any context (WHO 2022). Around 10% of children have a disability, the figure rising to about 40% in the...

Mary Wickenden

22 October 2024

Opinion

A new politics of uncertainty? From risk to uncertainty, from control to care

As the Navigating Uncertainty book shows, the politics of risk are centred on calculative, technocratic control, where we assume we can predict, model and manage. A politics of uncertainty by contrast is all about socially embedded, networked learning, flexibility, adaptation, innovation;...

Ian Scoones

21 October 2024

Opinion

Placing youth at the centre of agrifood systems research and practice

Today’s youth generation holds a large stake in the future of sustainable agrifood systems worldwide. Youth are recognised as a key demographic in agricultural and rural development. But how should international agricultural research systems and organisations orient themselves towards youth?...

Dorte Thorsen & 3 others

18 October 2024

Opinion

IDS students mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

October 17 has been recognised as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty by the United Nations since 1992, although its origins date back to 1987 when a gathering of 100,000 people in Paris declared poverty as a violation of human rights. Poverty eradication is the ultimate...

Nicola Davies & 5 others

17 October 2024

Opinion

Food rights and livestock: examining alternatives in the global South

This year, World Food Day is all about rights to food, celebrating the basic human rights that ensure all have access to healthy, nutritious, safe and culturally appropriate food always. As a result of climate change, conflicts and the entrenched inequity embedded in the social, economic...

Ayako Ebata & 3 others

16 October 2024

Opinion

World Food Day 2024: It’s time to ‘abnormalise’ hunger in South Africa

16th October 2024 is the 45th World Food Day, and the 30th since South Africa’s transition to democracy in 1994. What progress has been made on the constitutional right of everyone to “access to sufficient food”, and the constitutional right of every child to “basic...

Stephen Devereux

Mark Heywood

16 October 2024

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Unlocking the power of social protection

Navigating uncertainty: a blog compilation

Global health must be a central pillar of the UK’s reengagement with China

Research and action to tackle antimicrobial resistance and infectious diseases

Is extreme rainfall leading to ‘green drought’ in Western India?

Why don’t governments collect more revenue? The answer is complex but here are some new insights

Disability as an international development issue: an IDS perspective

A new politics of uncertainty? From risk to uncertainty, from control to care

Placing youth at the centre of agrifood systems research and practice

IDS students mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

Food rights and livestock: examining alternatives in the global South

World Food Day 2024: It’s time to ‘abnormalise’ hunger in South Africa

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