New analysis on global food inequities illustrates how we can cut through complexity to inspire learning on critical development issues. Global development challenges are by their very nature complex, contested and rapidly changing. Realising long-term, sustainable transformation relies on...
23 July 2021
The Pegasus spyware story is just the tip of the iceberg. Beyond the software developed by the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group, there is a multi-million-pound global market in which companies compete to profit from helping states to illegally spy on their own citizens. Rightly there has...
23 July 2021
22 July 2021
The UK government’s decision to reduce its Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget from 0.7% of gross national income (GNI) to 0.5% - a cut of around £4 billion this year - was confirmed last week by a majority of 35 votes in a House of Commons vote. The cuts that came into effect from...
21 July 2021
Learning from Brazilian civil society agri-food justice initiatives illustrates how we can broaden South-South dialogue for progressive social and environmental policy. South-South cooperation (SSC) often stands for counter-hegemonic alliances between nation states offering an...
21 July 2021
This year’s UN Food Systems Summit aims to address the complex and contested challenge of creating healthier, more sustainable and equitable food systems. But the Summit has been criticised for failing to integrate human rights. New research points to three distinct aspects of human rights...
19 July 2021
19 July 2021
China has a long history of supporting global health. Traditionally, China’s health cooperation has largely been dominated by sending medical teams overseas, building health infrastructure and donating medical commodities. However, the last ten years have seen an increase in interest from...
19 July 2021
18 July 2021
Shock-Responsive Social Protection Systems (SRSP) and efforts to link humanitarian assistance and social protection are hot on the agenda, driven in part by a huge expansion of cash-based assistance in response to Covid-19. These linkages are part of efforts to make sense of commitments to the...
15 July 2021
12 July 2021
Even before Covid-19 prompted our shift to online teaching, IDS was already exploring the potential for broadening access for a wider range of participants through online learning. Launched in June 2020, ‘Social Protection: A Primer’ was a timely short course offered to professionals – and...
12 July 2021
