As the G20 gather and revisit global pandemics, Ayako Ebata asks why world leaders are not spending more time addressing the concerns of those whose lives are quietly devastated on a daily basis.
30 June 2017
In response to concerns about toxic pesticides and food insecurity, people in Kerala are transforming the way they grow food. Rooftops, gardens and small plots are being used for agroecological farming. The approach is being reflected in government policy too.
30 June 2017
Many programmes are explicit identifying young people’s ‘mind-set’ as the problem is finding employment, but Jim Sumberg asks if is the right path to identify the mind-set of young people as the problem, and mind-set change offered as the solution?
29 June 2017
How participatory action learning is helping World Food Programme staff make their programmes more gender sensitive while supporting Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
28 June 2017
Reflections on the different forms of learning that are arising from a project in Senegal involving farmers who identified agroecology as part of their past and future .
26 June 2017
Ian Scoones blogs about the open access ‘think-piece’ in a Journal of Peasant Studies Forum series on Authoritarian Populism in the Rural World.
26 June 2017
You’ve heard it all before. Our food system is flawed, or more accurately, doomed. Santiago Ripoll argues that it is collective action not individual action that will fix our food system.
22 June 2017
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
