The Brief explores how governance challenges in Africa constrain innovation, and where practical responses are emerging.

These cards are intended to illuminate and inspire – to show both the complexity and continuity of our struggles.

This report distils six years of collaborative research (from late 2019 to early 2026) from the IDS-led Countering Backlash programme.

People with disabilities are often excluded from development research and programmes. A new issue of the IDS Bulletin has been launched focusing on disability inclusive development.

This new issue of the IDS Bulletin looks at building disability-inclusive futures edited by Stephen Thompson, Brigitte Rohwerder, Claire Walsh and Gayatri Sekar.

In keeping with its polarised politics, Brazil’s food system is a complicated picture: highly industrialised production on ...

Brazil's federal bureaucracy is a dynamic policy advisory system with civil servants acting as key brokers who interpret and translate diverse sources of knowledge ...

This report provides the most comprehensive account to date of smart city surveillance in Africa. Expert researchers draw on their contextual experience of their own countries in detailed reports on ...

While much analysis of land reform has focused narrowly on production (crops, livestock, and markets), this perspective risks overlooking the broader range of activities and relationships that sustain ...

This Working Paper examines how access to social assistance is reconfigured during conflict in Niger’s Tillabéri and Diffa regions. Using social network research, we find that traditional solidarity ...