Famine has been declared in Gaza City but the international system still fails to act, according to IDS researcher Philip Proudfoot.

The UN Food Systems Summit stocktake four years on from the original (UNFSS+4) was a sombre affair at times, reflecting on ...

This Research Briefing introduces the concept of opportunity storylines to explore the impacts of plausible climate futures and identify which social protection systems could be used to reduce hunger ...

Today an international coalition of organisations dedicated to evidence-informed decision-making launched the World Evidence-Based Healthcare (EBHC) Day 2025 campaign, ‘Collaborative Knowledge ...

IDS staff and students have put together an essential reading and listening list for the year so far.

The paper discusses the growing interest in using social protection to address climate-related vulnerabilities and strengthen resilience, particularly in conflict-affected settings.

The conference is the culmination of a five-year international research programme, BASIC (Better Assistance in Crises) ...

More than half the world’s population live in urban areas. Many growing towns & cities are marked by inadequate sanitation & sewage facilities.

Dr Rosalind Willi recently passed her viva voce, with no corrections. The focus of her thesis was the wellbeing of Syrian Armenian children in situations of displacement and return. In this blog she ...

Examining the implementation of VAT on cross-border digital transactions in Senegal, focused on transactions involving digital B2C services.

In mid-July, around 50 participants gathered in Boğatepe village near Kars in northeast Türkiye for a festival of pastoralism. It was a diverse group with researchers working on pastoralism from ten ...

This Policy Briefing synthesises emerging lessons from research conducted by the Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research programme, predominantly in the northeastern region of the country (which ...