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 ...

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

The central challenge in the original Sussex Manifesto centred on massively increasing the developing countries’ scientific and technological capabilities for creating new knowledge and shaping the ...

This article outlines a pathway to develop the business case for One Health. It describes the origin and development of One Health and then identifies five potential areas where One Health can add ...

Nutrition surveillance – or the systematic and periodic collection of information on nutrition – is vital to the capacity of governments and other agencies to track their progress towards reducing ...

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 ...

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 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 brief examines the politics of social protection amid ongoing financial crisis in Lebanon. It finds that Lebanon’s political settlement remains characterised by sectarian-clientelism and ...