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Is this the last chance to guarantee the right to food in Mexico?

As World Food Day is celebrated, Mexico’s unfolding legislative process on the right to food deserves attention. The broad consensus around a holistic understanding of this right is a milestone in the country’s history. The narrow window of opportunity now open to turn this right into...

Evelyn Nunez González

16 October 2023

Opinion

Small-scale mechanisation in Zimbabwean farming: boosting production

Following the introduction to the blog series last week, this blog focus on how small-scale mechanisation is boosting production across our sites. Processes of intensification and commercialisation are driving demand for a variety of forms of mechanisation to assist with tillage, irrigation,...

Ian Scoones

16 October 2023

Opinion

Contextualising Gaza: Colonial violence and Occupation

“We are at war”, stated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a recorded statement early on Saturday morning, and “we will win it”. While the unprecedented events of 7 October - constituting ‘the worst breach of Israel’s defences in 50 years’ - precipitated a declaration of...

Chloe Skinner & 2 others

13 October 2023

Opinion

Participatory research and inclusive education: five critical considerations

It is nearly 30 years since the UNESCO Salamanca Statement called for inclusive education to become the norm. Sustainable Development Goal 4 demands ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promotes lifelong learning opportunities for all including children with disabilities. Yet...

Stephen Thompson

Brigitte Rohwerder

12 October 2023

Opinion

Embrapa at 50 should be a celebration of its fringe heroines

This year the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) commemorates its 50th anniversary. Embrapa is well know for driving the Brazilian Green Revolution, centred on soybean and the power of science to conquer nature and push through agriculture modernization. This celebration...

Lídia Cabral

11 October 2023

Opinion

Small-scale agricultural mechanisation is taking off in Zimbabwe

A couple of weeks ago, the FAO hosted a massive gathering on ‘Sustainable agricultural mechanisation’, with the tag line efficiency, inclusivity, resilience. There were about 8000 delegates at the hybrid event and the FAO gave it a high profile. Agricultural mechanisation is back after a...

Ian Scoones

9 October 2023

Opinion

Rethinking research uptake in the East African region

Covid-19 has accelerated learning on bridging research and policy. In this guest blog the African Research & Impact Network (ARIN) share their East Africa Region Knowledge Translation Framework that seeks to enhance research use in emergencies and beyond. These issues around research use in the...

Leah Aoko, Research Associate, Africa Research and Impact Network

& 3 others

6 October 2023

Opinion

Future health systems: right here, right now

In complex and rapidly changing health systems and societies, there are no realistic transferable blueprints to guide countries’ strategies for accelerating progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Instead, governments must work with a range of actors through innovative partnerships...

Gerald Bloom

21 September 2023

Opinion

How can we get the SDGs back on track?

The 2030 Agenda, with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), provides a vision of an aspirational, equitable and just future for all, thriving on a safe and resilient planet. Together with other key multilateral agreements, it provides a compass for reorienting development in a...

Melissa Leach

20 September 2023

Opinion

What is a “development” research project? Transforming ideas of development through development research

Development Studies has long operated with binaries such as “developed/developing” and “traditional/modern” that foster implicit assumptions of Northern superiority. As a result, research projects taking place in so-called “developing countries” tend to ask different research...

Peter Taylor

18 September 2023

Opinion

The Sustainable Development Goals: A missed opportunity

The SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) are at their mid-point of implementation to 2030. Some are claiming there are reasons to be ‘hopeful’, but I am not. I was back in 2015 when they were launched, as they seemed a real opportunity to address transformations to sustainability across...

Ian Scoones

18 September 2023

Opinion

Youth in Africa and the future of democracy

Democracy around the world is under threat. Young people are often looked at as ‘the next generation’ who can rescue it, defying authoritarian regimes and forces on national and global levels. But as a highly diverse group, there are some young people that will, and are, supporting and...

Marjoke Oosterom

15 September 2023

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Is this the last chance to guarantee the right to food in Mexico?

Small-scale mechanisation in Zimbabwean farming: boosting production

Contextualising Gaza: Colonial violence and Occupation

Participatory research and inclusive education: five critical considerations

Embrapa at 50 should be a celebration of its fringe heroines

Small-scale agricultural mechanisation is taking off in Zimbabwe

Rethinking research uptake in the East African region

Leah Aoko, Research Associate, Africa Research and Impact Network

Future health systems: right here, right now

How can we get the SDGs back on track?

What is a “development” research project? Transforming ideas of development through development research

The Sustainable Development Goals: A missed opportunity

Youth in Africa and the future of democracy

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