The fire at Grenfell Tower in London brings home the deep inequalities and class struggle that underwrite the global housing crisis.
20 June 2017
Whilst the use of participatory video (PV) has expanded across the development sector, care needs to be taken regards its context, ethics and application. A new IDS course explores the techniques and practice of using PV for inclusive, community-led change.
20 June 2017
Ecuador recently announced the termination of all its bilateral investment treaties signed since 1968. It's the latest installment in the ongoing international controversy around such treaties and in particular their compensation clause for foreign investors.
20 June 2017
The reconfiguring of land use and ownership through land reform has generated a range of disputes. Having a transparent approach for dispute resolution is vital. This is a key task for the Zimbabwe Land Commission, as the third blog in the series argues.
19 June 2017
Subir Dey reflects on his trip to the Moushuni Islands of Sundarbans, India, where he asks if the sinking islands reflect a new era of climate change.
16 June 2017
How participatory action learning has been contributing to improved gender-sensitive programming in Guatemala.
14 June 2017
Seife Ayele, co-editor of the latest IDS Bulletin on Africa's youth employment challenge, highlights the importance of bridging the research to policy gap and explains how an IDS and Mastercard initiative is helping
13 June 2017
Paying compensation following land reform is perhaps one of the most pressing and emotive land policy issues in Zimbabwe today. In this blog Ian Scoones highlights four challenges around compensation.
12 June 2017
President Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement has sparked off a round of global discussion on China's potential as a global leader on climate. But is China ready to meet the expectations and fill the gap left by the US?
8 June 2017
Jorge Irán Vásquez Zeledón, a participant in the project on Transitions to Agroecological Food Systems based in Nicaragua, has written a blog post (in Spanish) about a “Farmers’ Jury” organised in connection to the project. The event aimed to investigate farmers’ views on the state of...
7 June 2017
The new Director General of the WHO, Dr Tedros, is a former minister of health in Ethiopia. Africa, at last, is now at the centre of global health policy. Ian Scoones explains why a 'one health' approach should be central to Dr Tedros' vision.
5 June 2017
Impact Summary The Ebola epidemic that began in the Guinea-Sierra Leone-Liberia border region in December 2013 spread fast through the villages, cities and trade routes of this highly-peopled, economically unequal region. The initial international response by donor and humanitarian agencies...
1 June 2017
