Command agriculture - a major, private-sector-backed subsidy programme implemented by the Government of Zimbabwe - has been hailed as a massive success, but is it a sustainable approach in the long term?
25 September 2017
To avoid missed opportunities on the road to BAPA+40 policymakers and practitioners must challenge traditional patterns of development cooperation and shape new types of relationships that enable more effective South-South cooperation.
20 September 2017
Is 'decent' work enough? Jim Sumberg and colleagues ask if decent work is a fair or satisfactory aspiration for Africa's youth.
18 September 2017
A bumper harvest has meant that Zimbabwe is largely food secure this season, but without greater resilience in the agri-food system, this new success is fragile, warns Ian Scoones.
18 September 2017
The jury is still out on how far China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI) will reshape the way we see the world. Our view is that it will have a significant impact in many areas, one of these is advancing cooperation for global health.
15 September 2017
Godelieve van Heteren, David Clarke and Maryam Bigdeli reflect on the debate that took place at the recent Accountabilty for Health Equity Conference and how this feeds into the newly launch Health Systems Governance Collaborative.
13 September 2017
I was fortunate to participate recently in the Research for Health in Humanitarian Crisis (r2hc) event in London. It brought together an impressive range of academics and INGOs doing research designed to save lives in the most challenging circumstances.
12 September 2017
Keetie Roelen blogs on the reinforcing cycle of poverty, policy and shame. She reflects on some deep discussions around shame and poverty at the recent Human Development and Capabilities Association (HDCA) conference in Cape Town.
12 September 2017
Praxis and researchers from the IDS-led Participate Initiative have been working with India’s denotified tribes (DNTs) to challenge discrimination. Jackie Shaw reflects on how power dynamics within diverse group processes enable and constrain outcomes.
7 September 2017
Blasio Zivengwa Mavedzenge (better known simply as BZ) tragically died following a car crash. Another terrible loss in the global carnage of road traffic accidents, which claim 1.3 million people each year… Continue reading ?
4 September 2017
Images of flooding from Houston and Mumbai have shown the vulnerabilities that an urbanised world faces. Yet this is not the first time that epic rainfalls have been so destructive, what can governments and the global community learn from these floods?
1 September 2017
The prevalence of corruption in Nigeria's public and private sectors is the bane of development in the country. Can President Buhari’s recently introduced Whistle-Blower Policy set the country on the right path?
29 August 2017
