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Food systems are broken. Could treating land as commons help?

Widespread separation from the land combined with deep inequalities may give rise to novel forms of land governance, but with contradictions and contestations. From India to Wales, Kenya to Mexico, farmers have been fiercely protesting challenges to their livelihoods in recent years....

Elise Wach
Elise Wach

18 July 2024

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From IDS to founding an award-winning social enterprise

Mina Chiang studied for an MA in Development Studies in 2017, with a scholarship from Rotary International in her home country, Taiwan. She has since founded the Humanity Research Consultancy (HRC), an award-winning social enterprise that works to end modern slavery and human trafficking. In...

16 July 2024

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The UK election: new development priorities in Africa?

The UK went to the polls last week with Keir Starmer, as widely predicted, now installed as prime minister and the Labour party in power for the first time in 14 years. This blog asks, will this bring a change to policies on aid and development in Africa, and what should the priorities...

Ian Scoones
Ian Scoones

8 July 2024

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Ghana forestry reforms supporting cocoa farmers and emissions reductions

For Ghanaian cocoa farmers’ livelihoods and for Ghana’s national income, maintaining access to higher value European cocoa markets is paramount. However, the European Deforestation Regulation (EDR), due to be implemented in December 2024, will reject cocoa linked to deforestation. Will...

Doreen Asumang-Yeboah, Rights & Advocacy Initiatives Network

& 3 others

2 July 2024

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Reflecting Forewords with Robert Chambers

Reflecting Forewords is an unusual book, one that looks backwards to look forwards. It is a collection of forewords that Robert Chambers wrote between 1986 and 2020. Organised chronologically, in some ways it reads as a biography of Robert’s interests across this time. Robert insists...

Tessa Lewin
Tessa Lewin

2 July 2024

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International development priorities for a new UK government

The UK electorate will cast their vote on the 4 July and soon after a new government will be formed and a new parliament will begin. Inevitably, there will be a full in-tray of domestic issues to address, including the cost-of-living crisis and the green energy transition – many of which are...

Peter Taylor
Peter Taylor

28 June 2024

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UK election: International development priorities for a new government

The UK general election is being held on the 4 July 2024 and soon after a new government will be formed. The rise of AI technologies, trade negotiations, global taxation, poverty and inequalities, and conflict and humanitarian crises – not least in Gaza and Sudan –are all pressing...

25 June 2024

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