Opinion

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From ordered estates to crooked times: farmworker welfare in Zimbabwe

A new book is just out – Ordered Estates: Welfare, Power and Maternalism on Zimbabwe’s (Once White) Highveld – by Andrew Hartnack is based on research carried out over the last decade on a number of Highveld farms, as well as with farm worker welfare NGOs.

Ian Scoones

21 November 2016

Opinion

Making transgender murder victims visible

To mark 2016's Transgender Day of Remembrance, IDS's Stephen Wood and partners at Transgender Europe highlight the intersections of discrimination faced by the transgender community post Brexit and Trump.

Stephen Wood & 2 others

18 November 2016

Opinion

How can healthcare be more equitable and accountable in Mozambique?

The new ESRC-DFID funded ‘Unequal Voices’ project was launched at the International Seminar on Accountability for Health Equity in Maputo, aiming to explore how accountability can create better health services for citizens everywhere.

Jennifer Constantine

16 November 2016

Opinion

Nigeria’s brutal slum wrecking breaks principles of New Urban Agenda

The mass persecution of slum dwellers in the Nigerian city of Lagos throws into doubt any hope of the New Urban Agenda leading us to a safer world.

Jaideep Gupte

16 November 2016

Opinion

What is Ecological Civilisation?

The Chinese Communist Party last week held its annual plenum in Beijing at which details of the country's 13th Five Year Plan, from 2016 to 2020, were set out for the first time.

15 November 2016

Opinion

How Gandhi Continues to Influence Action on Climate Change in India

India has now joined the global family of nations that will implement the COP 21 Paris Deal to combat climate change. What does it signify and how was it achieved?

Mihir Bhatt

14 November 2016

Opinion

The changing fortunes of former farm workers in Zimbabwe

Last week, I offered an overview of our findings on changing livelihoods among former farm workers from three former large-scale farms near Mvurwi in Mazowe district, and focused on broad survey findings, but what about individual's life stories and perspectives?

Ian Scoones

14 November 2016

Opinion

Trump and Brexit: what’s the alternative?

This year, Brexit and the US elections have dramatically challenged expectations about global politics. With an apparent shift towards nationalism and exclusion, what alternative kinds of transformations could be found?

Ian Scoones

11 November 2016

Opinion

Trump victory reminds us why we must look at politics and inequalities

Donald Trump’s victory at the US elections shocked the world. But with poverty and socio-economic inequalities at the heart of people’s decision to elect right wing politicians, isn’t it time those of us in development pay more attention to pure politics?

Shandana Khan Mohmand

10 November 2016

Opinion

Does self-employment always indicate entrepreneurship?

Would you describe the activities of someone selling food on a street as entrepreneurial? Jim Sumberg explores the fine line between self-employment and entrepreneurship.

James Sumberg

8 November 2016

Opinion

Breaking down the silos: working together to strengthen health systems

The backdrop to the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research is the urgent need to build resilient and responsive health systems. Many IDS colleagues and partners will be participating in the Symposium to explore the challenges facing global health.

Tom Barker

8 November 2016

Opinion

What are former farm workers doing 16 years after land reform?

There has been much debate about the fate of 'farm workers' following land reform, with discussion focused on displacement and dispossession, but relatively little about what has happened to this group since (although this blog has tried).

Ian Scoones

7 November 2016

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From ordered estates to crooked times: farmworker welfare in Zimbabwe

Making transgender murder victims visible

How can healthcare be more equitable and accountable in Mozambique?

Nigeria’s brutal slum wrecking breaks principles of New Urban Agenda

What is Ecological Civilisation?

How Gandhi Continues to Influence Action on Climate Change in India

The changing fortunes of former farm workers in Zimbabwe

Trump and Brexit: what’s the alternative?

Trump victory reminds us why we must look at politics and inequalities

Does self-employment always indicate entrepreneurship?

Breaking down the silos: working together to strengthen health systems

What are former farm workers doing 16 years after land reform?

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