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G20 members must take radical action to reform agrifood systems

Many IDS members, including my colleagues from the Food Equity Centre, are participating in G20 and T20 processes – running alongside the G20. IDS is a member of the International Advisory Council and is participating actively with leadership roles within task forces, as well as through policy...

Stephen Devereux

25 March 2024

Opinion

The power of the collective: lessons for research partnerships

In the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic and its associated massive upheaval, what enabled research findings to influence policy in real-time? What kind of funding and partnership model could support the rapid generation of evidence such as the research that informed the South Africa National AIDS...

Peter Taylor

Joe Taylor

21 March 2024

Opinion

New priorities for humanitarian assistance, livelihoods and resilience

Linking short-term relief and long-term sustainable development has long been an important policy ambition. Yet too often, humanitarian responses in the face of disasters become detached from building and strengthening livelihood systems. How can this disconnection be solved in...

Jeremy Lind & 2 others

19 March 2024

Opinion

The politics of Zimbabwe’s land reform: winners and losers

The political debates about the rights and wrongs of Zimbabwe’s land reform continue to occupy many. The tired, old obsession about how the land was taken and the associated focus on so-called ‘cronies’ persists, despite much evidence to suggest that the process was highly varied and...

Ian Scoones

18 March 2024

Opinion

The gendered burden of care in Sri Lanka’s polycrisis

For women in working-class poor settlements in Colombo, since Covid-19, it seems that crises have kept on coming with no respite. At the height of Sri Lanka’s economic crisis in 2022 when food inflation reached 90% the shocks were far from over. Electricity tariff rates were revised and...

Iromi Perera

18 March 2024

Opinion

Navigating conflict: Effective social protection for Sudan’s crisis

For over 10 months, Sudan has been going through a horrific conflict, causing more than eight million people to be forcibly displaced. New research from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) explores how aid actors can improve their food and cash support, with a focus on how it can be...

Becky Carter

18 March 2024

Opinion

The sanitation circular economy - rhetoric vs. reality

Sanitation remains one of the most off-track Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with 3.4 billion people, about 46 percent of the world’s population, still without access to safe sanitation facilities. Approaches such as Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) have helped shift countries...

Deepa Joshi & 2 others

18 March 2024

Opinion

What happened to the global land grab?

In 2011, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) hosted a major conference on land grabbing to take stock of the impacts across the world. The event was convened by the recently formed Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI), which involved IDS through the Future Agricultures Consortium and the...

Ian Scoones

15 March 2024

Opinion

Israeli forces incarcerate IDS research partner without charge

Amid the relentless brutality unleashed upon the Palestinian collective in Israel’s ongoing genocide, Omar al-Khatib, a dear friend and IDS research partner, has been arrested by Israeli forces, and is now being held in ‘administrative detention’ – incarceration without charge or...

Amina Abdulhaq

Chloe Skinner

14 March 2024

Opinion

Commercialising agriculture in Zimbabwe: new research on the political economy of agricultural development

This is the fourth blog in a series summarising new research on Zimbabwe’s land reform. In this blog, I look at newly published material on agricultural commercialisation and the shifting political economy of command politics and capitalist expansion. The land reform from 2000 overturned the...

Ian Scoones

12 March 2024

Opinion

Five ways funding is crucial for organising and defeating gender backlash

Backlash from conservative, patriarchal, religious and political forces is often seen as ‘the cost of doing business’ by feminist or LGBTQ+ activists. Yet how do philanthropic institutions who support gender justice respond to the scaled-up, well-financed and globally coordinated anti-gender...

Lisa VeneKlasen

Ben O’Donovan-Iland

12 March 2024

Opinion

Using a ‘capacity cube’ analysis to understand social protection delivery in crises

Across the social protection landscape, there is a lot of discussion about improving capacity to design and deliver social protection or emergency assistance in protracted crises. However, there is limited analysis unpacking what this actually means. By introducing the ‘capacity cube’, this...

Rachel Slater

6 March 2024

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G20 members must take radical action to reform agrifood systems

The power of the collective: lessons for research partnerships

New priorities for humanitarian assistance, livelihoods and resilience

The politics of Zimbabwe’s land reform: winners and losers

The gendered burden of care in Sri Lanka’s polycrisis

Navigating conflict: Effective social protection for Sudan’s crisis

The sanitation circular economy - rhetoric vs. reality

What happened to the global land grab?

Israeli forces incarcerate IDS research partner without charge

Commercialising agriculture in Zimbabwe: new research on the political economy of agricultural development

Five ways funding is crucial for organising and defeating gender backlash

Using a ‘capacity cube’ analysis to understand social protection delivery in crises

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