International development is at a crossroads. The closure of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the ...
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The global transition to clean energy is reshaping not only how communities produce and consume power, but also how households organise care work and manage daily subsistence tasks. Clean energy ...
IDS becomes a member of the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty, launched at the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 2024.
Read the new blog by IDS Researcher Ian Scoones who talks about what happens when Zimbabweans flee xenophobic violence in South Africa.
A new phase in global development has begun. Aid is retreating, and is unlikely to return to previous levels. Debt servicing costs have risen sharply, absorbing a growing share of public budgets and ...
The Humanitarian Access Initiative (HAI) has been promoting community-led humanitarian action across southern Somalia since late 2024. Now, it is time to assess what the project has learned about ...
Drawing on country-level research from the Countering Backlash programme, this paper shows how three backlash mechanisms are mirrored online ...
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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 ...