Richard Longhurst looks at the challenges of seasonality for the rural poor in the first in a series of reflective blog posts on development to celebrate IDS’ 50th anniversary.
13 June 2016
Financialization describes an economic system or process that aims to reduce all values into a financial instrument. Nature is increasingly treated as a private resource or financial asset.
13 June 2016
What is going wrong in South Africa’s land reform programme, and how can its failings be addressed? In 22 years land reform has barely altered the agrarian structure of South Africa, and has had only minor effects on rural livelihoods.
13 June 2016
Drawing from new research on why aid to Syrians in the Middle East is not working, Jan Selby and Mariz Tadros highlight eight myths of conflict and development, and reflect on their policy implications.
10 June 2016
Reflecting on her childhood holidays in Kashmir, and the subsequent and damaging impact of climate change in the area, Upasana Ghosh asks what should come first, ecological safeguards or political freedoms?
9 June 2016
When the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were agreed last September, there was much expectation about how they could help get sustainability back on the development agenda, and push the international community to develop new approaches to development.
9 June 2016
The Yukon is a vast territory in northwest Canada with a small population and a rich complement of natural resources, from minerals to fossil fuels, wildlife to water. It is also a fascinating case study for Indigenous self-government and sustainable resource management.
9 June 2016
IDS's Gordon McGranahan discusses how the Sustainable Development Goals present challenges and opportunities for urbanisation in the world's Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
6 June 2016
SDGs could provide an opportunity for radical transformation in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). But with hundreds of targets, attempts to implement the goals could be mired in bureaucracy. Could the SDGs open up a political space to rethink current patterns of development?
6 June 2016
Recent reports have celebrated five Zimbabweans who have taken over 15 ha of land, part of a farm in Malmesbury near Cape Town in South Africa. The N7 farmers as they call themselves were allowed to use the land – initially 3 ha now expanding – by the farmer.
6 June 2016
What can history teach us for the task of rapid transition in the face of climate change and corrosive inequality? Historian Molly Conisbee has written about how communities adapted during Britain's dramatic urban growth and upheaval.
2 June 2016
A report published today written by food security and nutrition experts proposes that input-intensive crop monocultures and industrial-scale feedlots must be consigned to the past in order to put global food systems onto a sustainable footing.
2 June 2016
