Despite ambitious policies and well-intended programmes, food security and nutrition challenges persist around the world and ...

In this paper we analyse how new actors, interests, and resources become salient to food system governance and how the domain of food system governance transforms as a result. Specifically, we focus ...

A new IDS archive Bulletin – Environmental Change, Development Challenges – Revisited – has just been released.

This policy brief summarises what we know about simplified taxes in Africa, who pays them, and why they matter, while highlighting gaps in existing knowledge.

Our research has shown how land reform has driven the growth in small towns, creating new economic linkages in a reconfigured economic geography of the country. No longer are the metropolitan centres ...

New research from the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) provides crucial insights into the challenges and ...

Lucas dos Santos Miranda, MA Globalisation, Business & Development student, joined IDS as part of a double master’s programme ...

The stop order on USAID is damaging critical humanitarian and development work around the world, says Peter Taylor, Director ...

Workforce Nutrition Programmes (WNPs) can improve the health of workers, but with mixed results for a business case—which is crucial to their sustainability. This paper thus explores impact pathways ...

This paper examines the political economy of the agricultural policy processes in Malawi through the lenses of the fertilizer subsidy programme that has raised the profile of the country on the ...

This report synthesises learning from these audits and is part of a larger project that focuses on understanding the links between sexuality, gender plurality and poverty with the aim of improving ...

Cornwall, A. (2002) Making spaces, changing places : situating participation in development. Working paper series, 170. Brighton: IDS.