Critical infrastructures’ are those that deliver important goods and services to society in the face of high levels of variability. They may be electricity supply systems or food producing systems, ...

Nutrition surveillance – or the systematic and periodic collection of information on nutrition – is vital to the capacity of governments and other agencies to track their progress towards reducing ...

The concept of brown gold highlights the scale of the economic benefits if we're able to recover all the hidden resources by ...

MA Development Studies student Deep Mehta shares his honest reflections about diversity, during his year at IDS.

A five-year study with child workers in Bangladesh’s growing leather industry has uncovered children working in dangerous and harmful conditions at every stage of leather processing and production, ...

Early in September, two summits of continental importance were held to reflect and consider Africa’s future. The first was the 2024 African Food Systems Forum (AFSForum2024) held in Kigali and the ...

In the regulation of new technologies, the questions of what is safe for whom are always thrown up. This is the third blog in a short series discussing the new book – Navigating Uncertainty: Radical ...

This article examines how neoliberal reforms mediate and influence relationships between emergent powers and African nations centred on agricultural development. It investigates the impact of South- ...