Opinion

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Beyond digital rights: Shaping AI for inclusive development

Following up from our previous blog, in this blog we lay out critical pathways for the development community to lead in shaping responsible, context-sensitive AI systems for inclusive development. Moving beyond reactive responses requires addressing the epistemological, technological, and...

Moinul Zaber

Caroline Khene

14 July 2025

Opinion

Validating research with communities and why it matters

In community-based research, the process does not end with data collection and analysis. A vital but often overlooked step is validation, where findings are shared with participants for feedback. This helps check researcher interpretation, supports relationship building and empowers communities...

Janine Shaw & 3 others

14 July 2025

Opinion

Beyond digital rights: Why the development community must reclaim agency in AI

As the AI for Good Global Summit 2025 convenes this week, the development community finds itself at a critical juncture. While digital rights and AI governance have dominated discussions within the international development sector—among agencies, donors, NGOs, and practitioners—we in the...

Caroline Khene

Moinul Zaber

9 July 2025

Opinion

Public restaurants can help address dietary health inequalities

It isn’t charity, it isn’t a treat, it’s universal. A public infrastructure, much like public libraries and public transport, ‘public restaurants’ are state-subsidised eateries which offer universal access to nutritious, appetising and sustainably produced foods. They have enormous...

Elise Wach

Anna Chworow, Deputy Director, Nourish Scotland

8 July 2025

Opinion

Accumulating and investing: trajectories of change in Zimbabwe’s land reform areas

A central question for our new research exploring changes in livelihoods 25 years after land reform is what are the trajectories of accumulation – or indeed the opposite? In other words, how well have those who got land following the land reform of 2000 fared? The farmers occupying the small-...

Ian Scoones

7 July 2025

Opinion

Whose reality counts?: Applying the knowledge & skills I learnt at IDS

Hitomi Fujimoto, MA Poverty & Development, Class of 2014-15, currently works at the Global Survivors Fund as an Advocacy and Policy Officer for Asia. In this blog post, Hitomi talks about why she decided to study at IDS, how it has impacted on her career path, and advice for prospective students...

Hitomi Fujimoto, MA Poverty & Development, Class of 2014-15

7 July 2025

Opinion

Military drivers of critical minerals extraction: impacts on development and sustainability

A growing concern today is that the acceleration of the so-called ‘twin transition’ — green and digital — is dramatically increasing global demand for critical minerals (CMs). In response to this increasingly recognised challenge, several research agendas have emerged. A central...

Phil Johnstone

Anabel Marín

4 July 2025

Opinion

More than a £ sign: The multifarious value of international students

In May 2025, Keir Starmer held a press conference to launch an Immigration White Paper, stating that without stricter immigration rules, the UK risks becoming an ‘island of strangers’. This White Paper – aspects of which are already being implemented – proposes, among other things,...

Linda Waldman

4 July 2025

Student Opinion

Feminised labour, masculinised visas: Who really belongs in the UK?

The UK government’s 2025 Immigration White Paper titled ‘Restoring Control over the Immigration System’ proposes sweeping changes to the Skilled Worker (SW) visa route, raising salary thresholds (currently £38,700), removing discounts for shortage occupations, closing the social care visa...

Antea Gomes, MA Gender and Development, Class of 2022/23

& 3 others

3 July 2025

Opinion

Special issue: where do skills reside in agriculture?

Where do skills reside? Do they dwell in people, in practices, in technologies? The question might seem abstract, but it helps us to think shrewdly about how changing skills can respond to new challenges and opportunities. Skills are fundamentally about agency; they express what a...

Dominic Glover

James Sumberg

2 July 2025

Opinion

Reflecting on ‘success’ in smallholder farming in Zimbabwe

This blog offers a compilation of blogs published over the past weeks, which have offered a reflection on how local people understand ‘success’ and its changes over time especially in the period since the 2000 land reform. We have worked in a diversity of A1 smallholder land reform and...

Ian Scoones

1 July 2025

Opinion

Consea back in operation again

One of President Lula’s early acts as President of Brazil for the third time was to reinstate the national food and nutrition security council, after the previous President Jair Bolsonaro had dismantled it in 2019. Earlier this month, I was at the inaugural meeting for this council,...

Renato Maluf

25 June 2025

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Beyond digital rights: Shaping AI for inclusive development

Validating research with communities and why it matters

Beyond digital rights: Why the development community must reclaim agency in AI

Public restaurants can help address dietary health inequalities

Anna Chworow, Deputy Director, Nourish Scotland

Accumulating and investing: trajectories of change in Zimbabwe’s land reform areas

Whose reality counts?: Applying the knowledge & skills I learnt at IDS

Hitomi Fujimoto, MA Poverty & Development, Class of 2014-15

Military drivers of critical minerals extraction: impacts on development and sustainability

More than a £ sign: The multifarious value of international students

Feminised labour, masculinised visas: Who really belongs in the UK?

Antea Gomes, MA Gender and Development, Class of 2022/23

Special issue: where do skills reside in agriculture?

Reflecting on ‘success’ in smallholder farming in Zimbabwe

Consea back in operation again

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