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Is going to school still worth it? Dilemmas for young people in post-land reform Zimbabwe

There is a large literature on the economic returns to education around the world. Most of this points to the value of schooling in simple economic terms for boys and girls at both primary and secondary levels. But what happens when the type of jobs that school leavers usually get no longer...

Ian Scoones

24 March 2025

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Learning from an evolving public health emergency to guide responses to mpox in Africa

As mpox continues to spread within the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring countries, concern is growing over how best to respond to this second mpox Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). In this PHEIC, Clade 1b cases in non-endemic contexts are increasingly linked...

Michael Kunnuji, University of Lagos & 6 others

21 March 2025

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On World Rewilding Day: How to align nature recovery for net zero with agrifood justice

It is World Rewilding Day today, an international celebration to raise awareness of “the benefits of wilder nature for wildlife, people and planet.” Rewilding is about letting nature recover in its own direction and usually comprises reducing human control and management of...

Lídia Cabral & 3 others

20 March 2025

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What is the future of funding for international development?

International development and global humanitarian assistance has been uprooted at the beginning of 2025 due to a series of budget cuts announced to Official Development Assistance (ODA). Most notably, the USAID funding freeze caused shockwaves around the world, removing life-saving assistance...

19 March 2025

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Design and Development: A Dialogue part 2

Are designers doing development? Do development professionals practise design? Designers and development practitioners have in common that they try to (re)shape the future. They make financial, material, practical, processual, and institutional interventions to change lives and improve outcomes,...

Dominic Glover & 4 others

18 March 2025

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Design and Development: A Dialogue part 1

Dominic Glover & 4 others

18 March 2025

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Avian flu: Intensified animal production does not make us immune to it

Avian Influenza outbreaks have been making headlines over the last few months. This time, the news does not come from the so-called “developing world” where poultry production systems are informal and less organised. It comes from the US, and the UK, and not just from chicken farms but also...

Ayako Ebata

18 March 2025

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Reinventing tradition: new forms of inheritance in Zimbabwe’s land reform areas

Longstanding traditions around land and its use within and between families and amongst men and women are up for renegotiation in post-land reform Zimbabwe. Young people must balance cultural norms – sometimes insisted on by their elders – with the necessities of providing for the next...

Ian Scoones

17 March 2025

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Development as domination: inequality and authoritarianism in India

India, touted as the world’s largest democracy, has been witnessing an erosion of its democratic fabric. Over the past decade, authoritarian tendencies have intensified, marked by the centralisation of power, the undermining of democratic institutions, and the silencing of dissent. From...

Lyla Mehta

Salonie Muralidhara Hiriyur

13 March 2025

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Bangladesh’s resilience amid aid cuts: a new era of development?

Since Donald Trump entered the White House, the world has seen chaotic changes to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the biggest global development donor with critical programmes across the world. This was followed by the UK’s announcement of a planned reduction in...

Ayako Ebata

13 March 2025

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Development spending cuts will hit women and girls

This year’s International Women’s Day has just passed, with UN Women calling for rights, equality and empowerment for all women and girls. However, this task has just got much harder after the drastic cuts made to international development budgets by the US, UK and the Netherlands in the...

Peter Taylor

10 March 2025

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The next generation is redefining what is meant by a ‘farm’ and ‘home’ in Zimbabwe’s land reform areas

As the next generation seeks out land-based livelihoods in the land reform areas and beyond, many of the standard ways of thinking about land are being reinvented for a new generation. This may be around the nature of a ‘farm’ and what place is called ‘home’. These themes are explored in...

Ian Scoones

10 March 2025

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Is going to school still worth it? Dilemmas for young people in post-land reform Zimbabwe

Learning from an evolving public health emergency to guide responses to mpox in Africa

On World Rewilding Day: How to align nature recovery for net zero with agrifood justice

What is the future of funding for international development?

Design and Development: A Dialogue part 2

Design and Development: A Dialogue part 1

Avian flu: Intensified animal production does not make us immune to it

Reinventing tradition: new forms of inheritance in Zimbabwe’s land reform areas

Development as domination: inequality and authoritarianism in India

Bangladesh’s resilience amid aid cuts: a new era of development?

Development spending cuts will hit women and girls

The next generation is redefining what is meant by a ‘farm’ and ‘home’ in Zimbabwe’s land reform areas

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