IDS alumna, Dr. Sepali Kottegoda recently came back to IDS to deliver a guest lecture on exploring unpaid care in Sri Lanka.

Shortly after his inauguration, President Donald Trump announced a series of climate measures with major ramifications: he passed an order to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and dismantled a host of ...

A new initiative called NOURISH has been established to find a new way of working to achieve equitable wellbeing for all. The initiative comprises of a collective of people from around the world, ...

Peter Taylor, Director of the Institute of Development Studies shares why governments with more progressive agendas should ...

A talk by Indian seed sovereignty scholar and independent activist Dr. Debal Deb, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies.

What does success mean in a livestock-based economy? How has land reform influenced what success is possible in a dryland, marginal area? To explore these questions, we carried out success rankings in ...

Vaccine hoarding during the Covid-19 pandemic exposed the urgent need for low- and middle-income countries to overcome technological dependency – not only to improve competitiveness and resilience but ...

Where do you shit? In developing countries, the answer may determine whether you live or die. Around 2.6 billion people defecate in the open. The consequences are dire: shit carries disease and is a ...

Dietary diversity is associated with household or individual food availability and intake of nutrients from different food groups and is an important component of nutritional outcome. This study ...

Global risks of zoonotic disease are high on policy agendas. Increasingly, Africa is seen as a ‘hotspot’, with likely disease spillovers from animals to humans. This paper explores the social dynamics ...

How can continuous reflection and learning help tackle climate change in the context of wider development challenges? This interactive PDF aims to support ongoing learning by those inside and outside ...