Across Southern Africa, rangelands support a large amount of small-scale, communal livestock farming. A new IDS-led project, with partners in South Africa and the UK, explores the potential and ...

As has become the tradition at this time of year, this week I am sharing a list of top posts for the year. This time it’s not just ones published this year, but any post viewed by the 27.7k visitors ...

The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence serves as a global campaign to amplify voices, movements, strengths and ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Rhea Millward-Thompson is a Senior Project Support Officer with the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD). She studied her Bachelors degree in Politics and Sociology at the University of ...

After 13 years of conflict, it took only 12 days for the Assad regime in Syria to fall. From the small region that remained ...

The original “Sussex Manifesto” called for radical change in international debate and action about harnessing science and technology to development. It challenged the commonly accepted global division ...

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 ...

This Policy Briefing looks at the different drivers of digitisation from the perspectives of aid recipients, humanitarian, and government actors in North East Nigeria.

This paper explores the accountability of social assistance in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), focusing on the roles of frontline staff of local and international organisations since ...