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, ...

This review of the evidence on sexuality and poverty is undertaken by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) as part of a larger Accountable Grant from the UK Government’s Department for ...

When it comes to elections, narrative building can go in either direction. Two more IDS alumni discuss the Indian elections.

The relationships between energy and development are complex, compounded by increasingly differentiated situations amongst developing countries and within them. Moreover, the manner in which energy ...

has emerged around their relative efficacy. Some commentators see diversity as a continued source of strength, positioning foundations to address the complexity, contingency and negotiated nature of ...

The Great Green Wall initiative is a tree planting restoration project that stretches from Senegal to Djibouti, 5,000 miles (8,000km) across Africa’s Sahel region. It is failing in its aims and needs ...

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Knowledge for Development and Diplomacy (K4DD) programme, supporting the UK ...

There was a period in the late 19th and 20th centuries when the worlds of art and science were seen as opposed to one another ...

Watch now Just over a year out from the COP30 climate conference in Belém, unprecedented drought and devastating fires have reminded the world that the Amazon rainforest is still critically threatened ...

This K4DD report explores the effectiveness of different approaches to community-based conservation in East Africa and their ...

Participation is a right held by all people to engage in society and in the decisions that impact their lives. Participation is thus a political endeavour that challenges oppression and discrimination ...

Ian Scoones is co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre at Sussex and principal investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant project, PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience: Lessons From the Margins).