Scarcity narratives: will Zimbabwe join the global land rush?
Ian Scoones urges us to think hard about the way land and its use is framed, and who gets included and excluded in the policy narratives around the post-elections rush for investment.
Ian Scoones urges us to think hard about the way land and its use is framed, and who gets included and excluded in the policy narratives around the post-elections rush for investment.
Question: What does international development research have to do with a leading, male deodorant brand?
In connection with the PASTRES project IDS Fellow Ian Scoones asks, what would a mass shift from livestock products mean for poor pastoralists living in marginal areas?
World Refugee Day is a stark reminder that the international community and humanitarian agencies need to do much more to protect the most vulnerable groups, as Tina Nelis and Brigitte Rohwerder from the Humanitarian Learning Centre in their blog post.
Richard Jolly reviews Kishore Mahbubani's book, Has the West Lost it?, which sets out the fundamental challenges for the national and international policies and politics of the West.
As part of an ongoing series, Ian Scoones reviews recent work on land invasions in Zimababwe that highlights the confusion, contradictions and ambiguities of Zimbabwe's land reform.
Modern life depends on fuel, even while tackling climate change means cutting subsidies for fossil fuels that mainly benefit the rich. Fuel riots seem both common and politically potent, and we have only just noticed them.
If the debate about the land rush is to be reframed, allowing alternative pathways of land use and control to emerge, bringing a political scarcity framing to the fore is an essential move, argues Ian Scoones.
The Zimbabwe election has been set for 30 July, and some manifestos have been published. Ian Scoones tells us what they say about land and agriculture.
To mark World Oceans Day this blog highlights some of the political issues that need to be resolved to tackle the ocean plastic pollution crisis and the importance of solutions coming from developing countries.
IDS student Clement Arockiasamy shares his experience of participating in Cumberland Lodge’s Programme on 'Emerging international Leaders Programme on Freedom of Religion and Belief (FoRB)'.
Ian Scoones reviews a recent paper by Rory Pilossof and Jacob Boersema that offers a nuanced and differentiated account of 'white' attitudes to land reform.