Publications

Supporting Mutual Aid in Sudan: Conflict-Sensitive Approaches to Risk and Accountability

BASIC Research Working Paper 40

This study explores how mechanisms of social solidarity have been shaped by the war in Sudan, as well as by their interaction with external funders.

Becky Carter

Hassan-Alattar Satti

Key considerations: Mpox in the Busia-Malaba border region linking Uganda and Kenya

SSHAP Briefing

Mpox has spread along the Busia-Malaba border that links eastern Uganda and western Kenya, with risk factors centred on cross-border mobility. Community responses to mpox are shaped by access to information on radio, television and social media as well as local terminologies, understandings of...

What Impact Do Tax Agents Have on Taxpayers’ Compliance in Uganda? Evidence from Tax Administrative Data

ICTD Working Paper 221

This study builds on existing exploratory evidence on the role of tax intermediaries in encouraing or hindering tax compliance in low-income countries through the analysis of all corporate income tax (CIT) and value added tax (VAT) returns submitted in Uganda between 2019 and 2023.

Giovanni Occhiali

Frederik Kalyango

Gold Mining, Conflict, and Post-war Governmentality in Côte d’Ivoire

Over the last twenty years, there has been a new gold rush in West African countries along a new resource frontier. The article’s key question is how mining governance reform and discourses around the 2014 Mining Code in Côte d’Ivoire create socio-environmental conflicts over the local...

Jeremy Allouche

Just food transitions: a plurality of framings and repertoires from below

In this paper we apply the concept of just transition to food systems, a domain central to environmental sustainability and social justice. We broaden and democratise the just transition debate by foregrounding a new set of voices and experiences from civil society organisations and networks in...

Lídia Cabral & 4 others

Rethinking ‘Farmer–herder’ Conflicts in the Ivorian Internal Frontier

There is a heightened concern among the media, United Nations (UN) agencies, and security experts about the rising number of localized conflicts in West Africa. While many of these conflicts are labelled as farmer–herder conflicts, they are, in fact, more complex and multidimensional. This...

Jeremy Allouche & 2 others

Can Social Protection Programmes Promote Livelihoods and Climate ‍Resilience in Conflict‑Affected Settings? Evidence from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme

BASIC Research Working Paper 37

The paper discusses the growing interest in using social protection to address climate-related vulnerabilities and strengthen resilience, particularly in conflict-affected settings.

Jeremy Lind & 4 others

Transformational Agroecology: The Making and Unmaking of Zero Budget Natural Farming in India

Agroecology is increasingly seen to have the potential to transform agriculture towards sustainability and social justice. Recent studies have highlighted different characteristics and principles of such transformative agroecology. Scholars have also shown that agroecology practices can be...

Poonam Pandey

Lídia Cabral

Technological Autonomy or Global Integration: Navigating Vaccine Dependency in LMICs

IDS Working Paper 621

Vaccine hoarding during the Covid-19 pandemic exposed the urgent need for low- and middle-income countries to overcome technological dependency – not only to improve competitiveness and resilience but also to enhance global crisis response. Development scholarship has long emphasised the...

Anabel Marín

Jose Morales

Food Fight: From Plunder and Profit to People and Planet

Stuart Gillespie - a veteran of four decades at the frontline of global food policy - exposes how malnutrition is enmeshed with other crises and what we can all do to turn things around. Food is life but our food system is killing us. Designed in a different century for a different purpose...

Stuart Gillespie

Rapid Scoping Review 2025: Türkiye

Countering Rollback Country Brief

Anti-feminist discourse has long been present among groups across the political spectrum in Türkiye. Erdoğan has explicitly stated that he is against gender equality, that abortion is murder, and that using contraception undermines the nation. This rhetoric influenced the official stance on...

Rapid Scoping Review 2025: South Africa

Countering Rollback Country Brief

South Africa’s Constitution offers protection, and formal recognition as equal citizens, to women and to LGBTQI+ people. It also positions South Africa as an important regional place of refuge for LGBTQI+ Africans, despite the country’s high rates of gender-based violence and xenophobia.

Chandni Sai Ganesh