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Adapting to climate change: co-constructing solutions on the ground

We know climate change is happening, but it’s uncertain as to how the impacts will play out, to what extent, where, affecting whom. In the sixth chapter of Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World, I again look at models and how they act to mutually construct a...

Ian Scoones

14 October 2024

Opinion

Africa’s Great Green Wall will only combat desertification and poverty by harnessing local solutions

In the rural village of Téssékéré, the increasing number and intensity of droughts linked to climate change is making the lives and livelihoods of the local Fulani communities increasingly vulnerable. Here, in the northern Sahel desert region of Senegal (known as the Ferlo), the pastoral...

Jeremy Allouche

Élie Pédarros

10 October 2024

Student Opinion

What do voters want in this year of elections? Part 3

How do we make sense of what voters have been doing in this year of elections? Too often we think of the results of elections and the fate of democracy as something determined by political elites and political parties. But it is centrally about what voters are doing and thinking, what determines...

Shandana Khan Mohmand & 3 others

9 October 2024

Student Opinion

What do voters want in this year of elections? Part 1

Shandana Khan Mohmand & 2 others

9 October 2024

Student Opinion

What do voters want in this year of elections? Part 2

Shandana Khan Mohmand & 2 others

9 October 2024

Opinion

Taking uncertainty seriously in disaster preparedness and response

The news is full of disasters: droughts, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, chemical spills and more. They are more frequent, and their scale of impact is growing according to UN reports. A whole industry focused on disaster risk reduction and response has grown up. But does this address...

Ian Scoones

7 October 2024

Opinion

Three spaces of change for reorienting North-South research partnerships

What are some of the challenges that researchers from the Global South face when engaging in development research initiatives, and how can resetting the relationships that underpin North-South collaborations help? What are the pivotal areas where change is needed? Challenges The main concerns...

Geetika Khanduja & 4 others

3 October 2024

Opinion

Informing international development and diplomacy with evidence

A new service for UK government officials seeking to enhance the Foreign Commonwealth and Diplomacy Office’s (FCDO) work with research and evidence launched in April 2024. James Georgalakis, Director of the Knowledge for Development and Diplomacy (K4DD) programme, explores how K4DD builds on...

James Georgalakis

2 October 2024

Opinion

Observations on development from scientist-artists

There was a period in the late 19th and 20th centuries when the worlds of art and science were seen as opposed to one another. Of course, the distinction is important: works of art are often intended to be ambiguous or ironic, while science is expected to be rigorously true to the...

Pauline Oosterhoff

30 September 2024

Opinion

Beyond epidemiological certainties: building pandemic responses from below

How to respond to and prepare for pandemics is a top policy priority, but there are many uncertainties. In the fifth chapter of the book, Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World, I focus on the lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapter moves between different...

Ian Scoones

30 September 2024

Opinion

Real-time reliability: managing uncertainties in critical infrastructures

‘Critical infrastructures’ are those that deliver important goods and services to society in the face of high levels of variability. They may be electricity supply systems or food producing systems, for example. The key question is how do the goods and services (whether electricity or food)...

Ian Scoones

23 September 2024

Student Opinion

A master’s student’s reflections of diversity at IDS

MA Development Studies student Deep Mehta shares his honest reflections about his year with us – including the challenges and frictions caused when your values, beliefs and opinions and not always aligned with those who you are studying with. Much of what I say here overlaps with what...

Deep Mehta, IDS student, MA Development Studies

19 September 2024

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Adapting to climate change: co-constructing solutions on the ground

Africa’s Great Green Wall will only combat desertification and poverty by harnessing local solutions

What do voters want in this year of elections? Part 3

What do voters want in this year of elections? Part 1

What do voters want in this year of elections? Part 2

Taking uncertainty seriously in disaster preparedness and response

Three spaces of change for reorienting North-South research partnerships

Informing international development and diplomacy with evidence

Observations on development from scientist-artists

Beyond epidemiological certainties: building pandemic responses from below

Real-time reliability: managing uncertainties in critical infrastructures

A master’s student’s reflections of diversity at IDS

Deep Mehta, IDS student, MA Development Studies

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