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22 May 2025
A new study of innovative, grassroots food projects in cities across the world - filling the gap left by insufficient state support for...
21 May 2025
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper draws on an international research collaboration to examine grass-roots innovations in food provisioning in five urban locations: Brighton & Hove, UK; Toronto, Canada; Montpellier, France; São Paulo, Brazil; and Cape Town, South Africa. It examines the innovative features of these experiences, their comparison to conventional food banks, and their transformative impact on existing food aid narratives and practices.
Watch again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYD-IhrjawI This seminar will showcase community-led innovations focused on enhancing...
12 May 2025
Published by: Taylor & Francis
In this paper we apply the concept of just transition to food systems, a domain central to environmental sustainability and social...
6 May 2025
2 May 2025
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Vaccine hoarding during the Covid-19 pandemic exposed the urgent need for low- and middle-income countries to overcome technological dependency – not only to improve competitiveness and resilience but also to enhance global crisis response. Development scholarship has long emphasised the importance of building a distributed base of technological capabilities. But is technological capacity alone enough?
11 April 2025
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The changing geo-political landscape has shifted focus from generalised normative preferences in trade policy towards more realist goals that seek to create the best advantage for a country under given circumstances. Consequently, as trade issues have become linked to polarised debates including on immigration and environmental issues amongst others, politicisation of trade negotiations has received significant attention.
7 April 2025
IDS graduates Callum Chapman and Norma Jean Park (MA Food & Development, Class of 2024) were lead authors on the IDS Working Paper...
2 April 2025
The Redistributive Land Reform Initiative draws on studies from eight countries from four continents and reflects on lessons from experiences where redistributive land reform persisted in the neoliberal era. The results will feed into the 2026 International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD) in Colombia.