IDS staff worked alongside NIHR staff to develop a package of tailored e-learning resources and activities (the “Toolkit”) to strengthen community engagement and involvement (CEI) within the NIHR Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation (RIGHT) programme (“NIHR RIGHT...
The Food Equity Centre exists to challenge the power and politics that make food systems inequitable. We conduct research and generate contextualized knowledge into the complex socio-economic factors that lead to certain people being unable to access affordable, nutritious food, or earn a...
Una red latinoamericana para generar aprendizaje y experiencias sobre intervenciones nutricionales pasadas y presentes / A Latin American Network to Foster Deep Learning on Nutrition Interventions Past and Present Jump to English description Es una colaboración multidisciplinaria, liderada...
This research is designed to help improve the lives of the poorest residents of cities in Africa and Asia by focusing on how they are meeting their basic needs and accessing infrastructure, particularly when they are living 'off-grid'. The research is led by a consortium including experts in...
18 July 2021
Urban dwellers’ food and nutritional wellbeing are both dependent on infrastructure and can be indicative of wider wellbeing in urban contexts and societal health. This paper focuses on the multiple relationships that exist between food and infrastructure to provide a thorough theoretical and...
19 October 2023
Living Off-Grid Food and Infrastructure Collaboration Working Paper 1
This working paper is the product of the Living Off-Grid Food and Infrastructure Collaboration. It is designed to bring together our thinking on how infrastructure can shape the food and nutritional security of urban marginalised populations. Infrastructure assemblages include the material...
23 May 2023
This paper applies an everyday political economy approach to examine the differentiated experiences of food insecurity and diet in a rural village in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone. Utilising a mixed-methods approach that incorporates food security and dietary diversity indexes, household...
The global distribution of malnutrition is remarkably unequal, and rates of malnutrition are also starkly unequal between population groups within countries: There are important differences between those from richer or poorer households, those with higher or lower educational attainment, women...
The Covid-19 pandemic has heightened growing global warnings of hunger and food insecurity. The related negative impacts are expected to last a long time, since in addition to issues inherent to health, there was an increase in unemployment rates and loss of income for individuals, added to the...
The Covid-19 pandemic has altered the perception, understanding and experience of food insecurity in the UK. While the issue of food insecurity is not new, the pandemic brought about a dramatic increase in both the need and demand for emergency food aid, driven by difficulties in accessibility,...