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

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 ...

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 ...

Many students come to IDS with aspirations of a career in the UN system. A recent event at IDS gave both students and alumni ...

A new blog which looks at reimagining social assistance in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and the vital role of local organisations.

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

This IDS Bulletin looks at past articles on environmental change and development challenges over the last 30 years.

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 background paper focuses on the potential role that international science and technology ‘foresight-type’ activities might play in informing decision-making processes about innovation, ...

Dietary diversity is associated with household or individual food availability and intake of nutrients from different food groups and is an important component of nutritional outcome. This study ...

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