With the world’s eighth largest economy, sixth largest population and fifth largest land area, what happens in Brazil matters for development worldwide.
In recent years it has shown its ability to be both a beacon of inspiration and innovation for international development and an exemplar of some of the most severe global threats to sustainability and inclusion.
The IDS Brazil Initiative is a network of partnerships which focus on knowledge sharing, mutual learning and collaboration to develop new approaches to tackling issues such as climate change, poverty and injustice.
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The return of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the presidency and his announcement that ‘Brazil is back’ has been met with much expectation worldwide. Added to this, Brazil is a key focus for global policy engagement this year due…
20 February 2024
events series
The return of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the presidency and his announcement that ‘Brazil is back’ has been met with much expectation worldwide. Added to this, Brazil is a key focus for global policy engagement due to its…
06 February 2024
events
His Excellency Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Brazil’s Ambassador to the UK, will discuss Brazil’s vision for tackling pressing global development, climate and environmental challenges, in the year that Brazil is the Presidency holder of the G20. Watch now https://youtu.be/MlLo2c5vcJk?si=Zx9ew2CwdRW_78-A&t=123 The…
05 February 2024
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This is the second in a new series of IDS seminars spotlighting Brazil’s development challenges and global role in the context of the country’s Presidency of the G20 in 2024 and its hosting of COP30 in 2025. Tackling the intersections…
30 January 2024
events
This is the first in a new series of IDS seminars spotlighting Brazil’s development challenges and global role in the context of the country’s G20 Presidency. It will focus on the Cerrado, Brazil’s most important agribusiness region and a key…
25 January 2024
Opinion
Brazil’s enthusiastic return to this year’s COP - the UN’s annual climate change conference - is welcome but we should interrogate the motivations of powerful players in the government’s broad-based coalition, including agribusiness. There is a danger that these players…
01 December 2023
Opinion
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…
11 October 2023
Projects
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IDS and the Centre for Sustainable Development at the University of Brasília are partners in convening a dialogue on sustainable agri-food development trajectories in Brazil, with a focus on the role of science, technology and knowledge. Brazil has become a…
projects
What constitutes meaningful participation in the economic sphere and how it might be enabled? In this project IDS draws upon and expands its rich experience at the forefront of thinking about participation in development, and our emerging work at the…
projects
The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) and Jodie Thorpe of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) partnered together to deploy the 'ANDE/IDS Gender Inclusion and Investing for Brazilian SGBs in the Creative Economy' project. This project was funded by…
projects
The aim of this project is to promote well-informed dialogue and collaboration between affected groups and service-providers about the biological, social and emotional effects of Zika. The research will pursue an understanding of therapeutic itineraries of affected populations and their…
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