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22 March 2023
For the seventh consecutive year, the University of Sussex together with the Institute of Development Studies has been ranked as the...
The necessity to address the challenges of climate change and environmental degradation is usually expressed in terms of visions of...
18 January 2023
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper interrogates the reality of gender backlash in Uganda by tracing the process of legislating on the 2019 Sexual Offences Bill (SOB). We trace the early beginnings of the Bill by highlighting the motivation that guided its framing, the role of individual actors and alliances in pushing for the gender equity reform, and the oppositional forces against the reform.
21 December 2022
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Citizen and policy groups address environmental challenges in the Sahel, but rarely together. In Sahelian West Africa, including in Mauritania, Senegal, and Mali, artists and citizens have used protest art to make their voices heard, in contexts where this can carry risks of conflict with authorities.
19 December 2022
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper explores how food inequities manifest at a territorial level, and how food territories are experienced, understood, and navigated by stakeholders to address those inequities. We interpret ‘food territory’ as a relational and transcalar concept, connected through geography, culture, history, and governance.
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.
25 November 2022
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This Working Paper analyses the role and practices of women’s groups in relation to women’s protection in the provinces of North and South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
25 November 2022
Published by: Elsevier
Reliance on groundwater in Sub-Saharan Africa is growing and expected to rise as surface water resource variability increases under...
27 October 2022
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Achieving universal electrification in sub-Saharan Africa requires creative solutions. Renewable mini-grids are a promising technology to electrify remote communities with a substantial productive demand, mainly from agro-processing; however, their economic case in the sub-continent is unclear.
26 October 2022
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
How can we make religious equality a reality for those on the margins of society and politics? This book is about the individual and collective struggles of the religiously marginalised to be recognised and their inequalities, religious or otherwise, redressed.