The Institute of Development Studies will hold its flagship event Recasting Development on 28 January to explore key trends ...

How does story-telling offer an opportunity to encourage and support reflection on issues such as decolonising knowledge for ...

Resilience has, in the past four decades, been a term increasingly employed throughout a number of sciences: psychology and ecology, most prominently. Increasingly one finds it in political science, ...

This paper examines the political economy of the agricultural policy processes in Malawi through the lenses of the fertilizer subsidy programme that has raised the profile of the country on the ...

Dr Stephen Devereux is a development economist working predominantly on food security, famine, rural livelihoods, social protection and poverty reduction issues. His research experience has mainly ...

IDS is leading the HeatNexus Network Support Programme, which will accompany the nine HeatNexus research projects, supporting ...

This report synthesises learning from these audits and is part of a larger project that focuses on understanding the links between sexuality, gender plurality and poverty with the aim of improving ...

Mozambique has been in political turmoil for the past three months, following the elections that were described as fraudulent ...

This issue of Frontiers of CLTS shares and builds on the learning from a desk study that explores examples of men’s and boys’ behaviours and gender roles in sanitation and hygiene (S&H). Of particular ...

We are delighted to announce that Professor Peter Taylor has been appointed as the new Director of the Institute of ...

Cornwall, A. (2002) Making spaces, changing places : situating participation in development. Working paper series, 170. Brighton: IDS.

Food and nutrition insecurity is a reality for a large number of people in India. Social safety nets to ensure food security of the poor and vulnerable become important in such a scenario. The Public ...