Opinion

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Complicating narratives of changing livelihoods and shared lands in Southern Kenya

Narratives about Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya often frame it as an “ecological island” in the centre of the wider Amboseli landscape that is threatened by fragmentation. This semi-arid landscape is well known as home to an abundance of mammalian and avian biodiversity, thanks to...

Ryan Unks, PASTRES post-doctoral researcher

12 April 2023

Student Opinion

The ups and downs of a master’s degree

Amy and Luna joined IDS in 2022 to study MA Governance, Development & Public Policy. In this blog, they have shared their top five pieces of advice when it comes to dealing with the anxiety and pressure of being a master’s student. For most of the new master's students at the University of...

Amy Baquero

Eva Vargas Diaz

4 April 2023

Opinion

Zimbabwe’s resettlement experience from 1980 to 2000

My recent blog on ‘phases of land reform’ focused on the post-2000 land reform period, but of course there was resettlement before 2000 as part of the post-Independence land reform efforts from 1980 to 2000. This too had phases, again affected by the wider political economy, especially via...

Ian Scoones

3 April 2023

Opinion

Ethiopian pastoralists: Entangled between development initiatives, conservation and state/society conflicts

“In the year 2000 we had called the government officials and had requested them to kill all of us…. we have lost our land, our water; we have nowhere to go.” An elderly Karrayu pastoralist, sitting beside Lake Basaka and talking with the PASTRES team, is in a state of despair. He makes...

Rashmi Singh, Affiliate Researcher PASTRES

31 March 2023

Opinion

Emerging research priorities in a post-pandemic world

With the ongoing war in the Ukraine, extreme weather events such as the flash flooding in Turkey or Cyclone Freddy in Malawi, and a hunger crisis in East Africa, Covid-19 is no longer the most pressing global development challenge we face. In fact, we have learned in the Covid Collective that...

Sophie Marsden

Peter Taylor

30 March 2023

Opinion

How can South-South collaboration improve responses to crises? Perspectives from South Sudan, Uganda and the DRC

An IDS programme partnership, the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP), has recently launch its Central and East Africa Regional Hub to connect academics, humanitarian responders and public health practitioners primarily working in the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan...

Grace Akello & 2 others

30 March 2023

Opinion

The power of heritage to make a life worth living

At a conference in Beirut earlier this month participants gave evidence of the power of heritage to make life worth living for groups and communities that have experienced acute marginalisation and life-transforming ruptures. Watch the video Sharing experiences of intangible heritage and...

Mariz Tadros

29 March 2023

Opinion

Four ways to rethink ‘resilience’ and its links to social protection

‘Resilience’ has become a firmly established part of the aid lexicon. Overall, global policy discourse recognises the potential of social protection to contribute to resilience outcomes, and highlights many examples of mechanisms to achieve this. Resilience as a term is used frequently as an...

Carolina Holland-Szyp

28 March 2023

Opinion

Robin Palmer – the original land campaigner and scholar activist

Robin Palmer sadly died on February 19th. Historian, lecturer, land campaigner, NGO worker and consultant, he was the original scholar activist. The large numbers of tributes that have been shared on many platforms (see here and here) are witness to his influence on many over several...

Ian Scoones

27 March 2023

Opinion

The silent vote

King Kaka represents the voice of millions of disenfranchised young Kenyan men and women. Over the last few years, young Kenyans they have expressed absolute disdain for a flawed political system whose players ignore citizens’ needs and rights until the next election cycle. The Independent...

Vicky Mulema

27 March 2023

Opinion

To radically rethink inclusion: the fight of deaf collectives in Colombia

We are used to thinking about inclusion as making the world accessible for all, but what happens when accessibility is not enough? For the past decade, Deaf communities around the world have been pushing for an epistemological shift that comprehends the collective and cultural dimension of being...

Ana Palma Garcia

25 March 2023

Opinion

Film and gallery: Sharing views of pastoralism and development policy

Earlier this month, the PASTRES team met in Addis Ababa together with other researchers, policymakers, NGO workers and social movement representatives to discuss the results of the PASTRES research programme. Today we are sharing a short film and photo gallery of the event. Since 2018, our work...

Ian Scoones

24 March 2023

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Complicating narratives of changing livelihoods and shared lands in Southern Kenya

The ups and downs of a master’s degree

Zimbabwe’s resettlement experience from 1980 to 2000

Ethiopian pastoralists: Entangled between development initiatives, conservation and state/society conflicts

Emerging research priorities in a post-pandemic world

How can South-South collaboration improve responses to crises? Perspectives from South Sudan, Uganda and the DRC

The power of heritage to make a life worth living

Four ways to rethink ‘resilience’ and its links to social protection

Robin Palmer – the original land campaigner and scholar activist

The silent vote

To radically rethink inclusion: the fight of deaf collectives in Colombia

Film and gallery: Sharing views of pastoralism and development policy

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