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

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 ...

The news is full of disasters: droughts, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, chemical spills and more. They are more frequent, and their scale of impact is growing according to UN reports. A ...

Another central impact on voting behaviour is the extent to which political dynasties can control state institutions, and reduce the option sets that shape voter preferences. Egi Primayogha Mardhika ...

How do we make sense of what voters have been doing in this year of elections? Too often we think of the results of elections and the fate of democracy as something determined by political elites and ...

This article examines how neoliberal reforms mediate and influence relationships between emergent powers and African nations centred on agricultural development. It investigates the impact of South- ...

Where do you shit? In developing countries, the answer may determine whether you live or die. Around 2.6 billion people defecate in the open. The consequences are dire: shit carries disease and is a ...

The ‘modernist’ project that has come to dominate food and agricultural policy has failed to provide sustainable outcomes for many poor people in developing countries. Conventional agricultural ...

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 ...

Moyo, B (2011) 'Transformative Innovations in African Philanthropy' The Bellagio Initiative, Brighton: IDS ...