HeatNexus is advancing solutions to extreme heat and public health risks in vulnerable communities across low- and middle-income countries.

The most comprehensive study of China’s role in the global energy transition shows a significant shift to renewables.

James Georgalakis and Knowledge Manager, Alan Stanley share the shifts in theory and practice they have witnessed and consider the future of knowledge for development in the age of AI.

Frontline workers keep essential services running in conflict. Evidence shows better pay and support strengthens resilience.

Romy initially faced rejection in securing the Chevening scholarship. Read how she used the rejection to strengthen her policy profile.

Across southern Somalia, when the Gu and Deyr rains failed, the land hardened. Grass yellowed. Riverbanks receded. Wells whispered before they fell silent. And long before the crisis was declared, ...

IDS researcher argues for progressives to come back to the table on trade policy in the light of President Trump's actions on tariffs.

This study uses Q ‍methodology to explore displacement-affected people’s perceptions of state and non-state responses to climate-induced displacement.

In a talk at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, I made the case that a core focus must be on land redistribution, as a ...

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, ...

Unpaid care work and social protection are intrinsically linked. Women and girls’ uptake of social protection provisions is affected by their unpaid care work responsibilities. Conversely these ...

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