This year it’s 25 years since Zimbabwe’s controversial land reform. Ever since the year 2000 when people invaded the land and former white farmers were dispossessed of their farms, we have been ...

We have recently produced three new booklets summarising our work on themes relating to rural development challenges based on our work across our sites. The booklets contain lots of photos and draw ...

The Institute of Development Studies will hold its flagship event Recasting Development on 28 January to explore key trends ...

Jeremy Swift, long-time IDS Fellow and pioneer of pastoralism studies, sadly passed away on the 22 December 2024.

How does story-telling offer an opportunity to encourage and support reflection on issues such as decolonising knowledge for ...

We are delighted to announce that Professor Peter Taylor has been appointed as the new Director of the Institute of ...

IDS is leading the HeatNexus Network Support Programme, which will accompany the nine HeatNexus research projects, supporting them as they plan and deliver their projects using a participatory and ...

Advancing the notion of ‘pacific heritage’ which attends to the potential of heritage to advocate peace, and peace as a means of protecting heritage in all its myriad and changing forms, this project ...

Ricardo is a postgraduate Researcher at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), participating in the Business, Markets and the State, as well as the Participation, Inclusion and Social Change ...

This project involves the coordination of a cohort of ten research networks that are funded under the AHRC International Networks for Disability Inclusive Global Development. The networks focus on ...