Can access to food be revolutionary? @stevemetcalfe.bsky.social reflects on work in Brazil to make food systems fairer www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/can... "Food is treated not just as a commodity, but as a right, and a route to wider change." @ids.ac.uk #foodjustice

Can access to food be revolutionary? - Institute of Development Studies

In keeping with its polarised politics, Brazil’s food system is a complicated picture: highly industrialised production on the one hand, and a wealth of progressive public policies and strong social m...

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📢IDS Annual Lecture news! We are proud to announce that @jasonhickel.bsky.social is our guest speaker for this year’s IDS Annual Lecture. 🗓️Join us on 24 March for the lecture on 'Capitalism, ecology, and class struggle in the 21st century' Find out more 👇 https://ids.pulse.ly/oiwcrwft0u

BREAKING - WE HAVE WON! Following a successful Judicial Review brought by Huda Ammori, and a sustained campaign of defiance by defend our juries leading to almost 3,000 ‘terror’ arrests, the ban on Palestine Action has been ruled unlawful in the courts.

Hard to see how this matches with the government's aspiration to implement its development agenda around 'equitable partnerships' www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK to cut climate finance to poor countries by a fifth despite promising more help

Exclusive: Campaigners say proposed cut from £11.9bn over past five years to £9bn over next five years will cost lives and livelihoods

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The UK government should improve ICAI, the body tasked with improving aid spending, rather than close it down and lose valuable independent scrutiny. Some practical recommendations from @cgdev.org www.cgdev.org/blog/dont-sc...

Don’t Scrap the UK’s Independent Commission for Aid Impact, Make It Better

Last month the UK development minister discussed in parliament the possibility that she might scrap the “Independent Commission for Aid Impact”. While critics have accused her of simply trying to avoi...

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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

About time too! There are so many better ways for wealthy individuals to support equality and show solidarity with communities in less well-off parts of the world www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

ActionAid to rethink child sponsorship as part of plan to ‘decolonise’ its work

Development charity’s new co-chairs signal shift from controversial sponsor a child scheme launched in 1972 to long-term grassroots funding

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"As IDS prepares to celebrate its 60th year, the field is confronting complex challenges such as climate change, global health inequality and also the social and ethical implications of artificial intelligence" Excellent interview with new @ids.ac.uk Director on future of development studies

Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The new director of the Institute of Development Studies discusses stepping into the role after 25 years, the impact of USAID cuts and the benefits of collaborating with the University of Sussex https://ow.ly/Eq7I50Y05r0

This looks like a timely and important campaign ⬇️

Post Growth Institute@postgrowth.org · 7mo ago

People around the world are hungry for economic systems change. Reclaim the Economy Week is a new moment for us to amplify and showcase the many ways we can redesign our economies. Find events near you, communication kits, and more at: www.reclaimtheeconomy.org #postgrowthalliance

"A development and human-rights perspective should always begin with the lived experience of the Venezuelan people." IDS Honorary Associate, Lizbeth Navas-Aleman writes on the indisputable breach of international law by US and global selective solidarity👇https://ids.pulse.ly/abbgsa8uly

Venezuela crisis: When good intentions are little more than ‘foreignsplaining’ - Institute of Development Studies

On 3 January 2026, a surprising US-led military operation extracted Venezuela’s dictator Nicolas Maduro despite his careful and secret security measures and the protection of his Cuban team of bodyguards. This indisputable breach of international law has sparked intense international debates about...

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Congratulations to Anu Joshi! Looking forward to working with her to support the IDS vision of a more equitable and sustainable world 🌍⚖️

Institute of Development Studies (IDS)@ids.ac.uk · 7mo ago

We’re excited to announce Professor Anuradha Joshi as the new Director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). Building on her long-standing leadership at IDS, she will lead the institute into its 60th anniversary year. https://ids.pulse.ly/52bb9mouwl

The science and technology needed for low-carbon living is largely already here. The bigger challenge now is behavioural. How can we introduce climate policies that won't backfire by alienating people? www.santafe.edu/news-center/...

Climate policies can backfire by eroding “green” values, study finds

A popular vision of life after climate action looks like vegetarians riding bikes, city centers without cars, and people foregoing air travel. But a paper published in Nature Sustainability finds that...

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Powerful piece about how AI is killing off local knowledge systems, and how this matters not just for local communities who depend on indigenous knowledge, but for all of us www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison

The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing

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Great thread, and useful reminder to focus on actual data not media / political hype

Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🧵 Is it a super flu year? Who knows, but I think the current reporting is stupid. A pissed off thread using data. Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10

Sorry but the idea that aid is failing because it focuses too much on rights and governance instead of economic growth is ludicrous. Recent Gen Z protests in Madagascar, Kenya, Nepal etc show how crucially important rights are. Apart from that clanger, good piece. www.devex.com/news/rethink...

In response to news of 25% staff cuts at FCDO @petertaylor-uk.bsky.social, IDS Director says: “We strongly urge the Government to pause these cuts, set out a coherent vision for UK development leadership, and ensure that decisions are driven by evidence rather than urgency." shorturl.at/5XUVZ

Government must pause FCDO staffing cuts or risk exodus, Committee Chair says - Committees - UK Parliament

Plans to cut 2,000 UK staff at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) may breach the department’s obligations to its workforce and cause an exodus of staff, the Chair of the Int...

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One of our students has written a brilliant piece about escaping war in Sudan and the impact, particularly, of the conflict on women. "The deepest silence, however, surrounds the plight of Sudanese women...who is speaking about what is happening to women in Sudan?" www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/fro...

From Khartoum to IDS: How living the war shapes how I study it - Institute of Development Studies

As the 16 Days of Activism gets underway, an IDS student shares a powerful account of escaping war in Sudan through a feminist lens.

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BREAKING 🚨: The government has just announced that they are ending new oil and gas exploration in the UK and have started a plan for workers and communities to transition away from fossil fuels. 🧵

Beautiful wintery morning today in west Sussex

Another nail in the coffin for US hegemony www.ft.com/content/79ea...

G20 defies Trump as leaders press on without the US

Agreements at G20 and COP30 show how America’s absence has not demoralised world leaders

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🌏 NEW: The UK government is failing to tackle global heating – so we’re forcing it to take action with Global Legal Action Network. Help fund the fight 👇 https://goodlaw.social/h5ik

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Deadline extended! Are you a US-based public health academic working on issues of health equity? If your work is under threat, the Sanctuary for Health Justice initiative at IDS could help. You now have until 30 November to apply 👇 https://ids.pulse.ly/otlnmngso3 #PublicHealth #HealthEquity

"our presence in Global North institutions was not just about what we could learn but equally about what we could contribute" www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-afri...

Cuts in US and European development spending risk undoing the progress we've made on tackling malaria. This could cost millions of lives, and billions in lost economic growth www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Anti-malaria funding cuts could lead to ‘deadliest resurgence ever’, study warns

Expected reduction in contributions by wealthy countries likely to cost millions of lives and billions in lost growth

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"the Tutor will be someone qualified to support the educational and developmental needs of children from ultra-high-net-worth and royal families" 🤮🤮 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Family seeks £180,000 tutor for toddler to help him become ‘an English gentleman’

Parents hope immersion in a ‘comprehensive British cultural environment’ will help prepare their son for Eton or Harrow

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Super excited by this new IDS initiative!

Institute of Development Studies (IDS)@ids.ac.uk · 10mo ago

US researchers working on health justice are under attack. In response, IDS launches the new Sanctuary for Health Justice initiative, offering the opportunity to temporarily relocate to the UK. Apply now! https://ids.pulse.ly/cposngzpnn

Sums up #WorldFoodDay rather well

Daily Maverick@dailymaverick.co.za · 10mo ago

As we celebrate the 80th World Food Day, we can certainly reflect and acknowledge that our people are being betrayed by their own selfish leaders and by big corporations. Let us honour this year's theme: Hand in hand for a better foods and a better future.

It's Prime Day so here's your regular reminder that: - Amazon has been exposed for throwing away millions of unused products each year - Amazon emits MORE CO2 than Hong Kong & Denmark - Jeff Bezos earns more in 1 MINUTE than many of his workers do in a year Overconsumption is KILLING our planet

Excellent series on overshooting 1.5°C warming. First 2 episodes VERY gloomy (1.5°C much worse than we thought and we're going well past that; collapse of Atlantic AMOC current looking more likely; and the follies of carbon capture tech). Dare I hope for some optimism in the final 2 episodes?

Overshoot Podcast@overshootpod.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Overshoot Episode 1: Uncharted Territory If the world didn’t win, has it lost? We meet the underdog diplomats who helped the world set the 1.5°C goal, and the champion sailors who can help us set a course for navigating what comes next Listen to episode one now: open.spotify.com/episode/1bJl...