A large outbreak of the Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV) was first identified in the Ituri Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in May 2026. This marked the DRC’s 17th Ebola outbreak ...

degeopoliticisation critical minerals and extraction - problems rooted partly in unequal relationships reframed as problems ...

What have we learned from our study, 25 years after land reform in Zimbabwe? Drawing on the research that we have been doing since the early 2000s, we wanted to highlight some of the key findings.

There has been a growing interest in China’s rapid economic growth, particularly agriculture-led growth and poverty reduction. In fact, China and Africa have developed their agriculture under ...

The sudden collapse of USAID in 2025 sent shockwaves through Uganda’s HIV response and the people hardest hit are those the ...

This research briefing identifies how frontline workers delivering health, education, and social protection services in fragile and conflict-affected settings (FCAS) can be better supported. It ...

Using the case study of the Kibera slums, this paper takes a medical anthropological approach to discuss and explain the untold and common practice among the urban poor in developing countries that is ...

Cornwall, A. (2002) Making spaces, changing places : situating participation in development. Working paper series, 170. Brighton: IDS.

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, ...

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