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6 June 2025
IDS awarded funding to strengthen equity focused policymaking
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) has been awarded four pioneering research projects funded through the British Academy. The...
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Multilateralism at a crossroads
Join this high-level event Multilateralism at a crossroads: Transforming challenges into opportunities for a sustainable future, with...
News
22 May 2025
Grassroots projects provide more dignified alternative to food banks, research suggests
A new study of innovative, grassroots food projects in cities across the world - filling the gap left by insufficient state support for...
Working Paper
21 May 2025
Grass-roots Innovation for Justice in Urban Food Provisioning
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper draws on an international research collaboration to examine grass-roots innovations in food provisioning in five urban locations: Brighton & Hove, UK; Toronto, Canada; Montpellier, France; São Paulo, Brazil; and Cape Town, South Africa. It examines the innovative features of these experiences, their comparison to conventional food banks, and their transformative impact on existing food aid narratives and practices.
Journal Article
12 May 2025
Just food transitions: a plurality of framings and repertoires from below
Published by: Taylor & Francis
In this paper we apply the concept of just transition to food systems, a domain central to environmental sustainability and social...
Working Paper
2 May 2025
Technological Autonomy or Global Integration: Navigating Vaccine Dependency in LMICs
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
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 importance of building a distributed base of technological capabilities. But is technological capacity alone enough?
Brief
16 April 2025
Rapid Scoping Review 2025: Brazil
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The Brazilian government made significant strides in advancing rights for women and LGBTI+ people since 2000. However, in 2016, President Dilma Rousseff was impeached in a parliamentary coup and Michel Temer, her former vice-president and a centre-right politician, took over as president.
Past Event
Brazil’s Public Policy Catalogue: Avenue for transparency, accountability, and better governance?
Join Dr. Sheila Tolentino Barbosa, from the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) as she talks about the Public Policy Catalogue...
Project
Land Redistribution Initiative: Addressing Inequality in the 21st Century
The Redistributive Land Reform Initiative draws on studies from eight countries from four continents and reflects on lessons from experiences where redistributive land reform persisted in the neoliberal era. The results will feed into the 2026 International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD) in Colombia.
Opinion
3 February 2025