News from Zimbabwe is dominated by crisis: economic, political, social, environmental and more. But what lies beyond? It is good news that people are thinking about this.
27 February 2017
Despite the enthusiasm about the role of mobile phones, to date there have been no rigorous evaluations of mobile services.To address this gap in the evidence, a consortium of researchers have just started an evaluation to assess the impact of m-Nutrition.
24 February 2017
Next month sees the inaugural Digital Development Summit, and following last week's post on why the future of work in a digital age matters for development actors, here is the next in the series, by ODI's Abigail Hunt.
23 February 2017
IDS’s Stephen Wood outlines the impacts of Trump’s reinstatement of the Global Gag Rule and a welcome initiative from the Netherlands
22 February 2017
On World Social Justice Day, Karen Brock reflects on how a partnership between researchers working on citizen engagement and a Kenyan urban grassroots movement offers insights into applied research supported citizen-led change in defence of human rights.
20 February 2017
Important changes are afoot in the size structure of farms in Africa. The rise of 'medium-scale' farms is often pointed to.
20 February 2017
PhD Student Madhushala Senaratne shares her reflections from the Sex, Rights, and Pleasure Lab
13 February 2017
In this week's blog, I want to present two cross-generational case studies of Purchase Area (now small-scale farming area) farms, based on interviews carried out earlier this year in Mushagashe and Dewure SSCFAs in Masvingo Province.
13 February 2017
IDS alum Priliantina Bebasari shares her reflections on the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence event.
6 February 2017
Debates around ‘alternative facts’ and the ‘alternative facts’ themselves continue to be liked, shared and mentioned across social media and Trump adviser talks of US voters’ rejection of the ‘expertariat’, where does that leave research and evidence?
6 February 2017
The Native Purchase Areas were designed as compensation for the fact that Africans were not allowed to purchase land elsewhere. These were areas that had mostly been farmed by early settlers before the colony’s land was carved up into racial designations.
6 February 2017
Over the last year, amidst the rising tide of populist politics around the world, we have increasingly seen research and evidence dismissed as irrelevant, disconnected, or an unnecessary luxury.
1 February 2017
