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5 November 2024
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper assesses the extent to which a famine occurred in Gaza. It concludes that, whilst the answer depends on which definition of famine is used, Israel’s use of food as a weapon of war against civilians in Gaza caused avoidable hunger and starvation deaths, and almost certainly constitutes a war crime and a crime against humanity.
29 October 2024
Published by: IDS
Social protection features in numerous country policies and development agency strategies, as well as in several Sustainable Development...
13 March 2024
Published by: World Food Programme
This brief explores the relationship between social protection and resilience, aiming to clarify conceptual linkages and contribute to...
26 June 2023
Published by: IDS
Globally, our food systems are highly inequitable. In a world with enough food, hunger is becoming normalised for large numbers of...
1 May 2023
This open access book compiles a series of chapters written by internationally recognized experts known for their in-depth but critical...
19 December 2022
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper starts from an empirical observation that levels of hunger or food insecurity in middle-income and high-income countries are often higher than might be expected, and in some cases are rising rather than falling in recent years. We document levels and trends in selected food security indicators for three case study countries: Brazil, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.
19 December 2022
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Food systems are characterised by inequities in every component, from production through to consumption. This paper seeks to make sense of various perspectives and concepts that account for the multiple forms of inequity.
13 December 2021
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper makes theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions to the study of social policy diffusion, drawing on the case of social protection in Africa, and Zambia in particular. We examine a range of tactics deployed by transnational agencies (TAs) to encourage the adoption of cash transfers by African governments, at the intersection between learning and coercion, which we term ‘coercive learning’, to draw attention to the important role played by TA-commissioned policy drafting, evidence generation, advocacy, and capacity-building activities.
15 December 2020
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The relatively recent emergence and sustained rise of social protection as a policy agenda in Africa can be understood as either a nationally owned or ‘donor-driven’ process. While elements of both can be seen in different countries at different times, this paper focuses on the pivotal role of transnational actors, specifically international development agencies, as ‘policy pollinators’ for social protection.
14 December 2020
Motivation Urban areas are growing as is urban poverty, yet few countries have developed comprehensive programmes for social assistance...
