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
A man wearing glasses stands with his arms folded in an outdoor setting, in front of neatly cut green hedges.
📢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/...
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...
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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...
"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
This looks like a timely and important campaign ⬇️
"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
Congratulations to Anu Joshi! Looking forward to working with her to support the IDS vision of a more equitable and sustainable world 🌍⚖️
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/...
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...
Great thread, and useful reminder to focus on actual data not media / political hype
Screengrab of part of an article: "Development assistance must once again be seen as materially beneficial to people’s lives. That means prioritizing infrastructure, job creation, and support for economic growth strategies that credibly deliver material prosperity."
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
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...
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.
🧵
Landscape showing a field and some trees in background, with a blue sky
Beautiful wintery morning today in west Sussex
🌏 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...
"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...
Super excited by this new IDS initiative!
Sums up #WorldFoodDay rather well
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?
