Across southern Somalia, when the Gu and Deyr rains failed, the land hardened. Grass yellowed. Riverbanks receded. Wells whispered before they fell silent. And long before the crisis was declared, ...

IDS researcher argues for progressives to come back to the table on trade policy in the light of President Trump's actions on tariffs.

This study uses Q ‍methodology to explore displacement-affected people’s perceptions of state and non-state responses to climate-induced displacement.

In a talk at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, I made the case that a core focus must be on land redistribution, as a ...

Camila reflects on the uncertainty that accompanied that decision, the experience of preparing for the Chevening interview, ...

Professor Jason Hickel will deliver the IDS Annual Lecture this year on capitalism, ecology and class struggle.

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, ...

Unpaid care work and social protection are intrinsically linked. Women and girls’ uptake of social protection provisions is affected by their unpaid care work responsibilities. Conversely these ...

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

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 ...

Accountability is now a buzzword in contemporary development debates. It is central to development policy, whether government accountability (as a central component of good governance), corporate ...