In keeping with its polarised politics, Brazil’s food system is a complicated picture: highly industrialised production on the one hand, and a wealth of progressive public policies and strong social ...

AI-enabled mass surveillance systems supplied and funded by China violate fundamental freedoms, researchers warn.

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Ce blog est disponible en français. Despite efforts by the Ivorian government to improve access to Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), several cities in the country, including ...

I am just back to Harare from a couple of months in Cape Town where Tapiwa Chatikobo and I have been writing up our project, Zimbabwe’s land reform after 25 years, getting to grips with overwhelming ...

Trade policy is often assumed to be gender neutral. In practice, it is not. Women and men experience trade systems differently. On International Women’s Day 2026, as policymakers reflect on progress ...

Patronela Tshuma exposed the disconnect between policy and lived reality in the field of Sexual and Reproductive Health and ...

Faith Chiazor is Research Director to the Office of the Senator Representing Delta-North at the National Assembly, Nigeria’s ...

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded ten research networks to explore and develop various aspects of disability-inclusive sustainable development. In addition, a separate project was ...

Seeing pastoralism as a “critical infrastructure” consisting of networks of “high-reliability professionals” has the potential to support and sustain resilient pastoral livelihoods. In this article, ...

Engineering graduate Jewel Sunil arrived at IDS with no formal training in the social sciences. Having observed talented ...