Role for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo, met with incredulity

Letters: Prof Lyla Mehta says the glacial floods and loss of life are a stark reminder that climate disruption is global and highly unequal. Plus letters from Lynda McDonald and Jan Bengtsson

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

Researchers argue overseas training strengthens, rather than weakens, home-country research capacity

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

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

With their new book, Henry and Ryder are determined to start a discussion about compensation for the descendants of slaves. But how would any scheme work? And why is it yet to happen?

Nepalis don’t often pay attention to the politics of their Southasian neighbours beyond India. But when Sri Lankans rose up in 2022 to boot out the Rajapaksa re

Why does the US support Israel’s genocidal crimes against the Palestinian people, even in the face of overwhelming international condemnation, at massive expense, and to the point of totally debasing ...

A tournament in Cornwall will pit anglers against these magnificent creatures, as part of a rising trend for so-called ‘sportfishing’, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Famine has been declared in Gaza City but the international system still fails to act, according to IDS researcher Philip Proudfoot.

The long read: The late Kenyan novelist and activist believed erasing language was the most lasting weapon of oppression. Here, Aminatta Forna recalls the man and introduces his essay on decolonisatio...

Mariana Mazzucato proposes a radical change in perspective toward humanity's most precious resource.