The climate crises and energy transition underpin the new European Open Strategic Autonomy Policy, aiming at 'de-risking' trade and reduce dependence on critical minerals, in line with the UK’s Critical Mineral Strategy. Mining is the first link of most global value chains (e.g. electronic...
Poor diets are a primary cause of malnutrition and the leading cause of diseases worldwide. Improving diets, including increasing fruit and vegetable intake, could save one in five lives lost annually. Micronutrients and dietary fibre are essential for health; micronutrients from fruit and...
As backlash against gender rights grows across the world, so does the resistance against it. Feminist and queer movements, organisations and activists are engaged in intense and difficult processes of developing and implementing strategies to counter this backlash. The Solidarity Network is a...
It has long been established that a combination of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions is needed in order to optimise the effectiveness of programmes aiming to reduce childhood stunting. However, the implementation of multi-sectoral nutrition programmes is challenging as...
This project aims to generate practical insights on how WFP programming and practices could be adapted in ways that contribute to reducing young people’s involvement in violent activities. Focussing on contexts in Honduras and Mozambique affected by gang related violence and armed insurgency,...
This study aimed to understand what Healing Justice means to Womn Humans Rights Defenders (WHRDs) and feminist activists in different African contexts, and to explore how and in what circumstances pathways to collective healing could be supported as an approach to feminist...
Investigating lived experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic and how community engagement can be utilised by local government in the UK, France and USA to improve response to future pandemic outbreak.
This project builds on the Coptic Culture Conservation Collective's existing database of stories, legends, social practices and oral histories from Coptic communities in Upper Egypt and the Middle East Culture Collective’s ‘Syriac Christian communities in Syria’ initiative. It aims to...
Through this action-orientated research project, the Sanitation Learning Hub (SLH) in collaboration with the Government of Meghalaya (GoM), India, are trialling and evaluating a series of four strategic engagement events (henceforth known as Rapid Action Learning (RAL) workshops) between State...
IDS is part of a research consortium that implements the MRC-Newton project ‘Foodborne diseases and public health governance: comparing food safety consumer preferences and governance in the supply of meat to urban markets. The overall aim in this project is to propose public health policies...
The research is targeted to the baseline phase of a four-year research effort to explore the living wage (LW) approach set out in the 2020 Rainforest Alliance (RA) Sustainable Agriculture Standard. The new standard requires that all workers receive at least the minimum wage in their country and...
With the financial support from the Dutch Ministry of Development Cooperation (DGIS), the 2SCALE programme started in June 2012, and is one of the largest incubators of inclusive agribusiness in sub-Saharan Africa. 2SCALE provides a range of support services to private partners – companies and...
