When Mpox was confirmed in Sierra Leone in January 2025, the country was not starting from zero. Ebola and COVID-19 had left ...

Read the new blog by Ian Scoones, 'Reflections by land reform farmers in Zimbabwe: a series of short video interviews'.

This report synthesises learning from these audits and is part of a larger project that focuses on understanding the links between sexuality, gender plurality and poverty with the aim of improving ...

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, ...

This paper considers what Africa’s response should be to the OECD’s base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) project. The paper acknowledges that BEPS concerns for developing countries (such as those ...

Ian Scoones is a professor who works at the interface between science and policy, focusing on the politics of knowledge in the context of agrarian and environmental change, especially in southern ...

New IDS research shows why there needs to be a joint approach to climate resilience and poverty reduction to improve lives in ...

The research topics identified in this issue of the IDS Bulletin raise important questions for policy making and programme ...

IDS Director says that the FCDO annual report lays bare the reality and scale of cuts to UK support for countries with great ...

IDS researchers say new Prime Minister Andy Burnham should implement these ideas to deliver his ambitions for the whole of ...

This Learning Deep Dive brings together insights from the FCDO African Technology and Innovation Partnership Programme (ATIP) shared by delivery partners and grantees as well as wider stakeholders ...