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
The Yukon is a vast territory in northwest Canada with a small population and a rich complement of natural resources, from minerals to fossil fuels, wildlife to water. It is also a fascinating case study for Indigenous self-government and sustainable resource management.
9 June 2016
IDS's Gordon McGranahan discusses how the Sustainable Development Goals present challenges and opportunities for urbanisation in the world's Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
6 June 2016
SDGs could provide an opportunity for radical transformation in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). But with hundreds of targets, attempts to implement the goals could be mired in bureaucracy. Could the SDGs open up a political space to rethink current patterns of development?
6 June 2016
Recent reports have celebrated five Zimbabweans who have taken over 15 ha of land, part of a farm in Malmesbury near Cape Town in South Africa. The N7 farmers as they call themselves were allowed to use the land – initially 3 ha now expanding – by the farmer.
6 June 2016
What can history teach us for the task of rapid transition in the face of climate change and corrosive inequality? Historian Molly Conisbee has written about how communities adapted during Britain's dramatic urban growth and upheaval.
2 June 2016
A report published today written by food security and nutrition experts proposes that input-intensive crop monocultures and industrial-scale feedlots must be consigned to the past in order to put global food systems onto a sustainable footing.
2 June 2016
Guest blog by Diana Conyers, a former colleague at IDS at Sussex, and someone who worked for many years in Zimbabwe. Her discussion of a new book - The Zambezi Valley Refrain: The Story of Basilwizi identifies some key ingredients for successful local development.
30 May 2016
In our age of computers and satellites, our sense of both urgency and fear has become central to the process of addressing environmental challenges. This sense of necessity for urgent action can be seen in calls to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss and extinctions, ocean acidification, etc.
27 May 2016
Shilpi Srivastava reflects on the extreme drought in India. Whilst important measures have been taken to address it, Shilpi argues that it is time that Indian states takes a long term perspective on water regulation and its allocation.
27 May 2016
Despite some evidence of success in terms of ‘graduating’ individuals out of poverty through graduation programmes, not all the attention has been positive. Keetie Roelen, Stephen Devereux and Rachel Sabates-Wheeler argue the need for 'responsible graduation'.
24 May 2016
