An IDS alumni asks why the politics of fear strategy works so much better for some population targets than others?

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 ...

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, ...

Expert research view on whether countries should follow the policies of Indonesia that led to its success with nickel mining.

When Mpox was confirmed in Sierra Leone in January 2025, the country was not starting from zero. Ebola and COVID-19 had left ...

This paper considers what Africa’s response should be to the OECD’s base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) project. The paper acknowledges that BEPS concerns for developing countries (such as those ...

The research topics identified in this issue of the IDS Bulletin raise important questions for policy making and programme ...

Ian Scoones is a professor who works at the interface between science and policy, focusing on the politics of knowledge in the context of agrarian and environmental change, especially in southern ...

Read the new blog by Ian Scoones, 'Reflections by land reform farmers in Zimbabwe: a series of short video interviews'.

New IDS research shows why there needs to be a joint approach to climate resilience and poverty reduction to improve lives in ...

Initiatives relating to sexuality in the development and humanitarian sectors have been approached from a negative, risk-based perspective.

In this blog post, IDS student Zarak shares some top tips for finding a dissertation supervisor while doing your master’s at IDS.