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Mpox as a public health emergency of international concern: preparedness, priorities, politics

In May 2022, concern was growing in Geneva about the appearance in Europe of a known zoonotic disease considered endemic to West Africa, within networks of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM). A year later, on 11 May 2023, the Public Health Emergency of International...

Hayley MacGregor & 6 others

12 May 2023

Opinion

Local early warning systems: predicting the future when things are so uncertain

There have been huge investments in ‘early warning’ facilities across East Africa, prompted by previous emergencies where livestock have perished and people’s lives have been threatened. The most recent of these was the drought that struck the Somali region in 2011-12, but affected parts...

Ian Scoones

Tahira Mohamed

12 May 2023

Opinion

Turning the tide on obesity in the city of Brighton

The challenge of childhood obesity is defined as a ‘wicked’ problem, up there with the likes of climate change and biodiversity loss. What makes these issues so wicked? To start with there are many (often contested) ways of defining the issue and how it should be ‘solved’, there is no...

Leah Salm

11 May 2023

Opinion

How the UN got thirsty again after 46 years

The UN 2023 Water Conference took place in New York on 22-24 March, 46 years after the last UN water conference in Mar del Plata, Argentina. The 1977 conference led directly to the UN water decade of the 1980s with an avowed aim of achieving 'water for all'. Perhaps overly ambitious, given the...

Lyla Mehta

Alan Nicol

11 May 2023

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Are greater diversity, participation, and inclusivity compatible with greater impact?

Words have meaning beyond their definitions The public sphere today is terminally fragmented. Gone are the days when the debate focused on what to do based on the facts of the day. Today we start the debate much earlier – on what the facts themselves are. Our media sources are diverse and...

Tom Hashemi

10 May 2023

Opinion

Conflict and social protection in the Horn of Africa

Conflict and political instability are major drivers of deprivation and displacement across the Horn of Africa. This is exemplified by the unfolding situation in Sudan, where humanitarian need is escalating rapidly as competing factions struggle violently for power. In a region with such high...

Izzy Birch

Becky Carter

10 May 2023

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UK-China engagement essential for global food and agriculture challenges

Food and agriculture is a major contributor to climate change, responsible for over one third of greenhouse gas emissions. Food systems are also a key driver of the biodiversity crisis threatening catastrophic loss of ecosystem functions and mass extinctions. Over 800 million people in the world...

James Keeley

9 May 2023

Opinion

The failure of ‘resilience’ projects in northern Kenya: what can we learn?

Moving across northern Kenya, roadsides are strewn with signs proclaiming projects creating ‘resilience’ amongst pastoral communities. The ‘Regional Pastoral Livelihoods Resilience Project’, the ‘Drought Resilience and Sustainable Livelihoods’ programme, the ‘Resilience...

Ian Scoones

Tahira Mohamed

5 May 2023

Opinion

Child labour on farms in Africa: it’s important to make a distinction between what’s harmful, and what isn’t

Children across the vast expanse of rural Africa hoe, dig, plant, carry, tend livestock, cook, scrub, care for their siblings, and undertake many other farm and domestic tasks. Most of their work is on the farms of parents or relatives, and in most rural communities, learning to work is a normal...

James Sumberg

Rachel Sabates-Wheeler

4 May 2023

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Can artisanal milk markets in Ghana and Kenya support rural livelihoods?

Milk plays important cultural, nutritional and economic roles in the lives of agropastoralists in Kenya and Ghana. Our research finds that agropastoralists and policy actors alike are intrigued by the potential of a market for heritage milk products, but market development is impeded by poor...

Eric Kioko & 3 others

3 May 2023

Opinion

The future of evidence-informed decision-making practice: redefining perspectives for improved impact

As a growing multi-disciplinary field, evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) needs to draw out its unique qualities, irrespective of the perspectives from which they may have originated. As a result, I consider it very intelligent for the request of this Think Piece to present an...

Kirchuffs Atengble

3 May 2023

Opinion

Ethical considerations on recall methods in violent conflict research

Conflicts significantly impact countries, populations and individuals. Investigating and understanding new forms of power relations and social orders emerging in these contexts is necessary to break the cycle of silence surrounding them and contribute to peacebuilding and conflict prevention....

Veronica Corbellini, IDS Alumni MA GAD 2021-2022

3 May 2023

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Mpox as a public health emergency of international concern: preparedness, priorities, politics

Local early warning systems: predicting the future when things are so uncertain

Turning the tide on obesity in the city of Brighton

How the UN got thirsty again after 46 years

Are greater diversity, participation, and inclusivity compatible with greater impact?

Conflict and social protection in the Horn of Africa

UK-China engagement essential for global food and agriculture challenges

The failure of ‘resilience’ projects in northern Kenya: what can we learn?

Child labour on farms in Africa: it’s important to make a distinction between what’s harmful, and what isn’t

Can artisanal milk markets in Ghana and Kenya support rural livelihoods?

The future of evidence-informed decision-making practice: redefining perspectives for improved impact

Ethical considerations on recall methods in violent conflict research

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