I just came back from the 2024 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development hosted by SIPRI. It was a stimulating event, replete ...

The Research Image Competition is run by the Sussex Researcher School, at our partner the University of Sussex, as part of ...

Reaching and engaging your audience is more difficult than ever in today’s world of information overload. As communications specialists, we have to come to grips with constant and confusing changes to ...

Mainstream approaches and fundamental assumptions about cause and effect of biodiversity, and the relationships between society and nature, need to be rethought.

This country case study focuses on Nigeria and the specific challenge of conflict, violence, and insecurity. Using four waves of General Household Survey data covering the period 2010 to 2019, we ...

Through our research, policy engagement, teaching and training, we support the emergence of development pathways that deliver both greater social justice and sustainability for rural people and places ...

The World Bank’s land conference returned this year in May after a gap since 2019. It is the go-to venue for mainstream (economic) debate about land. To a room full of suits, the conference was opened ...

This blogpost shares some commentaries emerging from the International Conference on Global Land Grabbing held in Bogota in March (see this IDS news article). All have relevance to the wider debate ...

The multiple economic shocks during the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in an estimated 1.6 million people falling into poverty in Bangladesh, especially in urban low-income areas, and for women, ...

This paper focuses on both the responsiveness and resilience of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) to large-scale conflict shocks. Focusing on how PSNP systems and implementation ...

This Policy Briefing offers a series of recommendations to improve the effectiveness of donor and aid agency support for local capacities for social assistance in Yemen.

Based on recent experience in a range of African countries, we list some taxpayer registration practices that should be abandoned or used sparingly, and some that should be used more widely, to better ...