Across southern Somalia, when the Gu and Deyr rains failed, the land hardened. Grass yellowed. Riverbanks receded. Wells whispered before they fell silent. And long before the crisis was declared, ...

In a talk at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, I made the case that a core focus must be on land redistribution, as a ...

Camila reflects on the uncertainty that accompanied that decision, the experience of preparing for the Chevening interview, ...

This rapid review examines innovation ecosystems across Africa to inform strategic learning priorities for the African ...

Professor Jason Hickel will deliver the IDS Annual Lecture this year on capitalism, ecology and class struggle.

IDS researcher Jeremy Allouche challenges the assumption that climate change and water shortages will lead to wars.

This study uses Q ‍methodology to explore displacement-affected people’s perceptions of state and non-state responses to climate-induced displacement.

Learn how to design impact evaluations more effectively using a contribution analysis approach with our five-day in-person specialist training course. Many development programmes have overlapping ...

Resilience has, in the past four decades, been a term increasingly employed throughout a number of sciences: psychology and ecology, most prominently. Increasingly one finds it in political science, ...

Governments around the world are starting to realise that engaging their citizens more in shaping the decisions that affect their everyday lives improves both legitimacy and the quality of public ...

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

Accountability is now a buzzword in contemporary development debates. It is central to development policy, whether government accountability (as a central component of good governance), corporate ...