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The Brazil IDS Initiative provides focus in a geography at the leading edge of development thinking and practice due to accelerating environmental, economic, political and social change. It recognises that tackling challenges such as climate change, poverty and injustice requires knowledge sharing, mutual learning and collaboration inclusive of diverse perspectives within Brazil and globally.
The Brazil IDS Initiative creates space where researchers from within and outside of Brazil can share, learn and work with global researchers, governments, civil society and the private sector. By better understanding fast emerging perspectives, the Brazil IDS Initiative aims to strengthen development thinking and practice, moving beyond OECD country perspectives on Brazil to include multiple, diverse voices that can inform policy decision making and the generation of actionable solutions. It is part of an evolving global network of IDS International Initiatives that includes China, Europe, Ghana and Pakistan with emerging opportunities for global learning through shared experiences.
The Initiative’s research spans a broad range of themes including: development cooperation; social policy, health systems and inequalities; democracy, civil society and governance; food systems, agriculture and rural development; and inclusive business and value chains. This sub-community is structured against these themes, and collates publications authored by or co-authored with Brazilian academics.
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Martyrdom of the Cerrado: An Agri-Food Territory in Need of Justice
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03-24)The Cerrado is a natural biome occupying 25 per cent of Brazil’s surface. Compared to the Amazon, it is relatively unknown to international audiences, yet it is currently the world’s largest agricultural frontier. Intensive ... -
On the Margins of Aid Orthodoxy: the Brazil-Mozambique Collaboration to Produce Essential Medicines in Africa
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2014-09-25)On the back of its recent economic development and domestic success in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Brazil is helping the Government of Mozambique to set up a pharmaceutical factory as part of its South-South cooperation ... -
Interrogating the Binary in Brazil’s Agricultural Cooperation for Development
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Cultures of Politics, Spaces of Power: Contextualizing Brazilian Experiences of Participation
(Taylor and Francis, 2013-07-02)Brazilian democratic innovation is gathering considerable international attention, spawning a growing interest in replicating the institutional designs of its participatory governance institutions in countries with very ... -
Brazil’s Engagement in Health Co-operation: What can it Contribute to the Global Health Debate?
(Oxford University Press / London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2013-03-27)This commentary draws on a study on Brazilian projects inAfrica (Russo et al.2011) and the authors’ direct involvementwith Brazilian health co-operation to argue that, althoughshaped by its ... -
ProSAVANA and the Expanding Scope of Accountability in Brazil's Development Cooperation
(2015-11-21)As Brazil becomes a visible player in international development, questions about accountability resonate loudly amidst wider scrutiny of the country's cooperation programme. This article takes the case of Brazil's flagship ... -
Brazil’s Tropical Solutions for Africa: Tractors, Matracas and the Politics of ‘Appropriate Technology'
(Springer Link, 2016-06-21)This article focusses on mechanical farming technology sponsored by Brazil’s South-South cooperation in Africa. Tractors and matracas are taken as symbols of different agricultural development pathways promoted by Brazilian ... -
Embrapa and the Construction of Scientific Heritage in Brazilian Agriculture: Sowing Memory
(John Wiley & Sons, 2020-11-01)The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Embrapa, is well renowned for incorporating the Cerrado into Braziltry’s modern agriculture through its discoveries of how to improve infertile soils and to develop soybean ... -
Trade Liberalization and the Rise of Populism in Brazil
(UNU-WIDER, 2020)This paper investigates the long-term impact of economic shocks on populism, by exploiting a natural experiment created by the trade liberalization process implemented in Brazil between 1990 and 1995. This high impact and ... -
After Emergency: Social Protection Responses to Zika Virus in Brazil
(IDS, 2020-05-12)The Zika Congenital Syndrome has severe long-term, complex impacts on affected children and their caretakers, demanding state responses even after the withdrawal of the national health emergency status. This paper discusses ... -
Banco Palmas: Solidarity Finance in Conjunto Palmeiras
(IDS, 2020-04)Banco Palmas is one of the early examples of solidarity finance. Emerging from a peri-urban slum in Brazil, this initiative is based on three key pillars: small, communitysanctioned loans; a local currency (to keep wealth ... -
Shifts in Innovation Power to Brazil and India
(IDS, 2012-02)Analysts tend to explain the shift in innovation power by concentrating on factors within the rising powers, such as their investment in high-level education, their low labour cost, their big and expanding internal markets ... -
ASMARE: Informal Waste Workers Engaging in Municipal Policy-Making
(IDS, 2020-03)ASMARE is an association of informal waste workers ( catadores ) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Founded in 1990, it was the first step of involving catadores as a part of the city’s waste collection scheme. With ASMARE, the ... -
Introduction: the Accountability Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities. Learning from Brazil and Mozambique
(CEBRAP, 2019-05-01)Inequality is a key political issue of our times. It has political consequences, fuelling conflict and raising legitimacy challenges for regimes around the world, in democratic and non‑demo‑ cratic settings alike. At the ... -
Development Needs Civil Society - The Implications of Civic Space for the Sustainable Development Goals
(IDS, 2019-04-01)This report analyses the implications for development of the recent wave of closures of civic space that has primarily affected human rights-based and liberal democratic organizations - non-governmental organizations ... -
The Implications of Closing Civic Space for Sustainable Development in Brazil
(2019-04-30)This report on Brazil is one of a set of four country case studies designed to study the implications of closing civic space for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The case study was commissioned ... -
Action Ethnography on Care, Disability and Health Policy and Administration of Public Service for Women and Caretakers of Zika Virus Affected Children in Pernambuco, Brazil
(PPGA UFPE, 2019)In Brazil, the Zika epidemic, a national and public health emergency declared in 2015, and in effect until early 2016, caused severe neurological damage to over three thousand newborn children (3.179 confirmed cases up to ... -
Social Assistance Responses to Zika Virus Epidemic in Brazil
(Institute of Development Studies, 2019)The complex and unprecedented characteristics of the Zika epidemic in Brazil demanded national and local coordination, the intersection of public policies (e.g., health, social assistance, education) and the creation of ... -
From Policy Transfer to Mutual Learning?: Political Recognition, Power and Process in the Emerging Landscape of International Development Cooperation
(Novos estudos CEBRAP, 2017-01-27)The economic and geopolitical shifts of recent years have forced the oecd-dac member countries to offer greater recognition to the development cooperation activities of the BRICS and other rising powers, who claim to follow ... -
The BRICS in International Development
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016)This book offers a comprehensive comparative perspective on the increasingly significant development cooperation activities of the BRICS. Providing a powerful set of insights into the drivers for engagement within each ...
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