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Applying knowledge & skills from the MA Poverty

MA Poverty & Development alumna Molly Charker (class of 2020) works as a strategist at a creative agency for social impact, Shape History, who look after IDS’s web development. She shares how she has applied the knowledge and skills she learnt at IDS to the roles she has secured since...

Molly Charker, IDS alumni

22 January 2025

Opinion

Ten reasons not to use AI for development and ten routes to more responsible use

The UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer says we should be mainlining AI directly into every part of government and the economy. The Foreign Secretary says he is planning to bring ‘AI into the heart of our work’. However, there is a great deal of evidence about the harms that AI can...

Tony Roberts

21 January 2025

Student Opinion

Scholarship student on studying at IDS and applying for Chevening

Chevening Scholar Teofilo Moreno graduated in 2023 with an MA in Governance, Development and Public Policy. Having won a place on the 61st UN Grade Study Programme, he spent two weeks at the Palace of Nations in Geneva debating how to update the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with...

Teofilo Moreno, IDS Alumni

20 January 2025

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Twenty-five years after Zimbabwe’s land reform: understanding change

This year it’s 25 years since Zimbabwe’s controversial land reform. Ever since the year 2000 when people invaded the land and former white farmers were dispossessed of their farms, we have been tracking what has happened. We have been asking a very simple question: what happened to...

Ian Scoones

20 January 2025

Opinion

Rural development challenges in land reform areas of Zimbabwe

We have recently produced three new booklets summarising our work on themes relating to rural development challenges based on our work across our sites. The booklets contain lots of photos and draw from blogs published earlier on this site. They are being distributed in our field sites both to...

Ian Scoones

20 January 2025

Opinion

Story-Telling: A method to support decolonising knowledge for development

I have recently been working closely with a group of EADI members reflecting on the importance of “decolonising knowledge for development”. This is in response to our acknowledgement that social divides are driven by race, gender, religion, class and financial inequities. We know...

Peter Taylor

15 January 2025

Opinion

Understanding the gendered dimensions of post-election protests in Mozambique

Mozambique has been in political turmoil for the past three months, following the elections that were described as fraudulent by national and international observers, including the European Union Election Observation Mission, but where the results were nonetheless confirmed by the supreme court...

Kátia Taela

9 January 2025

Opinion

Tackling urban internal displacement in the global South

In December, IDS’ Cities Cluster hosted a hybrid seminar examining the challenges and opportunities presented by the growing phenomenon of urban internal displacement in the global South. Moderated by Cities Cluster lead, and urban displacement expert, Dr Dolf te Lintelo, the event offered a...

Christopher Ward

3 January 2025

Opinion

How can businesses, producers and consumers shape environmentally just trade policy? – Part two

Chemicals and machinery and the UK As global dialogues focus increasingly on the interaction between trade and the environment, the United Kingdom has placed efforts to ensure that trade interventions complement its environmental objectives. While the European Union has been a leading...

Amrita Saha & 3 others

20 December 2024

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How can businesses, producers and consumers shape environmentally just trade policy? – Part one

The EUDR, and collaborating for just trade policy The European Union (EU) has been a leading proponent of using trade policy to pursue its environmental goals. The value of imports into the EU are second in value only to the United States, with substantial scrutiny of its responsibility for...

Amrita Saha & 3 others

20 December 2024

Opinion

Play, protest and pedagogy: A Transnational approach to feminist-worldbuilding

As 2024 comes to an end, many feminists are reflecting on the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence campaign, while some are probably thinking about taking time off after being in Bangkok, Thailand a week ago for the 15th AWID International Forum. Some of us met in similar capacities...

Bushra Saleem

18 December 2024

Student Opinion

16 Days, 16 voices of activism against gender-based violence

The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence serves as a global campaign to amplify voices, movements, strengths and struggles in the ﬁght against gender-based violence (GBV). This year, MA students from the Gender and Development programme at the Institute of Development Studies...

Wasﬁya Sheikh & 2 others

16 December 2024

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Applying knowledge & skills from the MA Poverty

Ten reasons not to use AI for development and ten routes to more responsible use

Scholarship student on studying at IDS and applying for Chevening

Twenty-five years after Zimbabwe’s land reform: understanding change

Rural development challenges in land reform areas of Zimbabwe

Story-Telling: A method to support decolonising knowledge for development

Understanding the gendered dimensions of post-election protests in Mozambique

Tackling urban internal displacement in the global South

How can businesses, producers and consumers shape environmentally just trade policy? – Part two

How can businesses, producers and consumers shape environmentally just trade policy? – Part one

Play, protest and pedagogy: A Transnational approach to feminist-worldbuilding

16 Days, 16 voices of activism against gender-based violence

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