Institute of Development Studies Research Repository: Recent submissions
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Learning From and Preventing Failure in WASH
(The Sanitation Learning Hub, Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02)Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) failures continue to be discussed mostly off the record, with professionals the world over repeating one another’s mistakes. Failure is difficult to talk about, but WASH failures have ... -
Celebrating Adaptive Delivery: A View from the Frontline in Myanmar
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-02)The conversation on adaptive management has grown fast amongst development actors. These conversations often focus on designing, commissioning, and managing large-scale development programmes. Exactly how this impacts the ... -
Frontier Territories: Countering the Green Revolution Legacy in the Brazilian Cerrado
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-06)Brazil is recognised as a world leader in the production of agri-food commodities in large, highly mechanised farms, but also as a centre of resistance movements advocating for land rights and food sovereignty. Brazil’s ... -
Notes on Contributors – Frontier Territories: Countering the Green Revolution Legacy in the Brazilian Cerrado
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-06)This is the Notes on Contributors for IDS Bulletin 54.1 – Frontier Territories: Countering the Green Revolution Legacy in the Brazilian Cerrado. -
Introduction: Reclaiming the Cerrado – A Territorial Account of a Disputed Frontier
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-06)As global agri-food systems come under increasing stress, debates on their future have become highly polarised, exposing fundamental differences in understandings and priorities: industrial production versus traditional ... -
Transformations of the Agricultural Frontier in Matopiba: From State Planning to the Financialisation of Land
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-06)This article explores how the agricultural frontier in Brazil is conceived and how it has been historically shaped by broader socioeconomic changes. It considers the planning process linked to the Cerrado occupation during ... -
Matopiba’s Disputed Agricultural Frontier: Between Commodity Crops and Agrarian Reform
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-06)Matopiba’s agricultural frontier has been at the centre of political and scientific debates since its establishment in 2015. However, the impact of agribusiness expansion and intensification on land distribution in the ... -
Green Grabbing in the Matopiba Agricultural Frontier
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-06)This article discusses grilagem (land grabbing) in the Cerrado, particularly in Matopiba territory, which is seen as the newest and largest global agricultural frontier. It examines how the Rural Environmental Cadastre ... -
Brazilian Agricultural Frontier: Land Grabbing, Land Policy, and Conflicts
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-06)This article sheds light on the forms of land appropriation in the agricultural frontier regions of Brazil in line with the concepts of land and green grabbing. With less stringent environmental laws, the Cerrado presents ... -
Environmental Policy Reform and Water Grabbing in an Agricultural Frontier in the Brazilian Cerrado
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-06)The spread of soy monoculture in the Brazilian Cerrado relies on land and water grabbing, although water appropriation is a least studied issue in the current literature. A mixed-methods approach was used to study changes ... -
Mapping Fire: The Case of Matopiba
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-06)This article examines fire as a political tool to advance the expansion of the agricultural frontier in Brazil and proposes a methodology for working with affected communities to protect their territories. Historically, ... -
Brazilian Civil Society and South–South Cooperation: Countering the Green Revolution from Abroad
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-06)Having transformed its hinterland to become a major exporter of agricultural commodities, Brazil has, since the mid-2000s, set up a range of South–South cooperation (SSC) initiatives to export its agri-food policies and ... -
Glossary – Frontier Territories: Countering the Green Revolution Legacy in the Brazilian Cerrado
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02-06)This is the Glossary for IDS Bulletin 54.1 – Frontier Territories: Countering the Green Revolution Legacy in the Brazilian Cerrado. -
Trade Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Agriculture
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-31)Trade policy provides a powerful set of levers for accelerating a transition to more inclusive and sustainable agricultural practices. Yet, trade in agriculture is often reliant on unsustainable methods of production, ... -
Technology and Tax: Adoption and Impacts of E-services in Rwanda
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-16)Many low-income countries are increasingly digitising various tax services, usually motivated by efforts to increase efficiency and transparency and reduce the burden of compliance for taxpayers. However, where awareness ... -
Practical Guides for Participatory Methods: Body Mapping
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-26)Body mapping may be useful for practitioners and researchers who want to: Examine and appreciate how emotions, cultural norms or practices relate to (specific parts of) physical bodies, or are embodied; Explore topics that ... -
Practical Guides for Participatory Methods: Time Sequencing
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-26)Discrete visual documentation of different activities in one location may be useful for practitioners and researchers who want to: Document changes of legal and illegal activities, or presence of actors in one location ... -
Practical Guides for Participatory Methods: Mapping and Power Analysis
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-26)This method enables participants to create a visual map of the key resources and assets in their community, organisation, workplace etc, that are important for their wellbeing and thriving. It is designed to encourage ... -
Practical Guides for Participatory Methods: Rivers of Life
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-26)Through drawing of a river, this method helps to access and communicate personal experiences, and facilitate group dialogue around the issues that the groups themselves identify. The expectation is that, through staged ... -
Bimodal Lobbying and Trade Policy Outcomes: Evidence From Corporate Political Activity Under Uncertainty in India
(Springer Nature, 2023-01-02)We lack insight into how firms reduce uncertainty by engaging with trade policy through corporate political activity (CPA), particularly in emerging economies. In this paper, we argue that CPA, as an instrument of nonmarket ...
