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Agri-Chains and Sustainable Development Conference 2016
International conference on Agri-Chains and Sustainable Development (AC&SD): linking local and global dynamics - early bird discount ends 1 November.
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30 November 2016
Challenges and opportunities for inclusive and sustainable WASH
CLTS has spread rapidly over the last 16 years and is now present in over 60 different countries. However recent research shows that more thinking and action is needed to ensure that sanitation efforts are sustainable and inclusive. A new book, entitled Sustainable Sanitation for All, examines how CLTS and the WASH sector more generally has and needs to continue to evolve to meet these challenges.
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28 November 2016
New IDS Bulletin examines links between power, poverty and inequality
Power analysis is essential for developing new strategies to tackle poverty and inequality. This new IDS Bulletin ‘Power, Poverty and Inequality’ edited by Marjoke Oosterom and Patta Scott-Villiers, brings together the latest analysis on understanding power and inequality and their links to poverty.
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18 November 2016
World Toilet Day: timely reminder of the global sanitation crisis
World Toilet Day aims raise awareness and inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis, which affecting 2.4 billion people around the world. Although commitments clean water and sanitation are enshrined in Sustainable Development Goal 6, the topic often neglected and shrouded in taboos.
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27 October 2016
Open for action: IDS celebrates Open Access Week 2016
This year’s 9th International Open Access Week's theme of “open in action” is appropriate to IDS’ own endeavours over 2016. These include re-launching its flagship publication as an open access journal, celebrating 20 years of the development portal Eldis and enhancing OpenDocs, our e-repository of development research.
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15 June 2016
Can the Private Sector Tackle Undernutrition Amongst the Poorest People?
Published by: IDS
Undernutrition is the biggest worldwide health risk and accounts for roughly 45% of child deaths globally. Additionally, “hidden hunger” or deficiency in vitamins and minerals (micronutrients) affects to 2 billion people in the world.
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8 June 2016
Syria and the Middle East hold urgent painful lessons for development
Syria and the Middle East hold urgent painful lessons for development New research highlights why aid to Syrians in the Middle East is not working. The article forms part of a collection which both challenges existing approaches and understandings of the links between conflict and development, and highlights the important and urgent lessons the Middle East hold for development.
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19 May 2016
Rich history of thought and debate on development – all open access
As part of IDS’s 50th Anniversary celebrations, we re-launched our flagship publication, the IDS Bulletin as an open access journal. Not only are all issues published from 2016 now freely accessible online, but we have also digitised the entire back catalogue. Find out more...
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Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA)
Action for Empowerment and Accountability is an international research programme which explores how social and political action can contribute to empowerment and accountability in fragile, conflict, and violent settings, with a particular focus on Egypt, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria and Pakistan.
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10 March 2016
Are China and Brazil transforming African agriculture?
China and Brazil are set to increase their influence in Africa, with the recently launched New Development Bank opening offices in Johannesburg this month and preparing to issue its first loans in April. New research on “China and Brazil in African Agriculture” published in acclaimed journal, World Development, reveals that the picture on the ground is far more complex and more contested than generic policy statements about South-South cooperation or win-win partnerships would have us believe.