Making stuff is all the rage these days. But how does sustainable development fit into this enthusiasm? The White House is celebrating a Week of Making to spark a "grassroots renaissance in American making and manufacturing".
17 June 2016
Can the Sustainable Development Goals trigger a new approach to development in the world’s Least Developed Countries? On Monday, LDC experts from around the world gathered in London to discuss how the world’s poorest countries relate to the new global goals.
17 June 2016
The idea of reforming fossil fuel subsidies is attracting attention in both academic and policy circles. The environmental and economic aspects of subsidies and their reform have been much debated, but the political aspects are less prominent in the discussion.
17 June 2016
What will it be like to live in Chinese cities as e-mobility takes hold? This is the question that has been investigated by a team at CeMoRe, Lancaster University and the Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, since 2013.
16 June 2016
Kat Pittore highlights the latest IDS findings on the effectiveness of markets to deliver nutritious foods to those most likely to suffer from undernutrition.
15 June 2016
Participatory research processes hold inherent tensions, involving people with different levels of power in complex socio-political contexts. Visual methods offer great opportunities but can also amplify the many challenges to honest reflection and learning.
15 June 2016
Richard Longhurst looks at the challenges of seasonality for the rural poor in the first in a series of reflective blog posts on development to celebrate IDS’ 50th anniversary.
13 June 2016
Financialization describes an economic system or process that aims to reduce all values into a financial instrument. Nature is increasingly treated as a private resource or financial asset.
13 June 2016
What is going wrong in South Africa’s land reform programme, and how can its failings be addressed? In 22 years land reform has barely altered the agrarian structure of South Africa, and has had only minor effects on rural livelihoods.
13 June 2016
Drawing from new research on why aid to Syrians in the Middle East is not working, Jan Selby and Mariz Tadros highlight eight myths of conflict and development, and reflect on their policy implications.
10 June 2016
Reflecting on her childhood holidays in Kashmir, and the subsequent and damaging impact of climate change in the area, Upasana Ghosh asks what should come first, ecological safeguards or political freedoms?
9 June 2016
When the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were agreed last September, there was much expectation about how they could help get sustainability back on the development agenda, and push the international community to develop new approaches to development.
9 June 2016
