On the steep hills on the outskirts of Lima, slums like San Juan de Lurigancho are ever expanding. As roads and shacks are built on steep slopes, residents face the constant risk of rock slides and landslides.
19 May 2016
With the IDS Bulletin entire back catalogue now available online, here are some reflections on this special year for IDS and the richness and diversity of scholarship and thought that the IDS Bulletin has contributed to development thinking.
19 May 2016
In the run up to International Day Against Homophobia, IDS's Stephen Wood reflects on the UK All-Party Parliamentary report on global LGBT rights
16 May 2016
Youth and young people are becoming a hot topic among development donors and actors. But who exactly do these "labels" apply to, and are they too broad for effective policies? Or do they create too narrow a focus which is blind to larger structural issues?
16 May 2016
On the back of the tobacco boom, Mvurwi town in Mazowe district is humming. It had an estimated 2000 residents before land reform, but by 2012 the ZIMSTAT census report showed the population had gone up to 6500.
16 May 2016
Many have criticised the Sustainable Development Goals for being overly broad and unrealistic. While a certain degree of ambition is necessary to drive changes, the fourth SDG (SDG4) on education already bears ten targets.
11 May 2016
A call for papers has been issued for the Transformations 2017 conference in Dundee, UK. Transformations 2017 is the third in a biennial series of international interdisciplinary conferences that focuses on transformations towards sustainability.
11 May 2016
Chatsworth is in Gutu district in Masvingo province. Before land reform it was important as a cattle loading siding run by the national railways. Surrounded by around 100 large-scale farms, mostly owned by whites, it was a centre for the ranching business.
9 May 2016
In December 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping flew into South Africa for the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation with great fanfare. Find out what is the real story of China in Africa on the ground, beyond the hype.
5 May 2016
It has been sixteen years since Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer first introduced the term 'Anthropocene' to signify that the 'growing impacts of human activities on earth and atmosphere' had reached planetary proportions.
3 May 2016
The new 'Pathways' Network had its opening workshop in Buenos Aires recently. At the workshop, participants from Sweden, South Africa, Kenya, the UK, Argentina, USA/Mexico, India and China discussed research questions and how best to share learning.
3 May 2016
Small towns near resettlement areas are booming. New business opportunities generated by a change in rural production systems has transformed opportunities. In the past these were very sleepy service centres for the surrounding large-scale commercial farms.
1 May 2016
