Brazil: Recent submissions
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South-South Relations in African Agriculture: Hybrid Modalities of Cooperation and Development Perspectives from Brazil and China
(Routledge, 2019)South-South cooperation is becoming ever more important to states, policy-makers and academics. Many Northern states, international agencies and NGOs are promoting South-South partnerships as a means of ‘sharing the burden’ ... -
Redistributive Preferences and Protests in Latin America
(SAGE Journals, 2019-02-12)This article analyzes the role of individual redistributive preferences on protest participation. The article focuses on Latin America, a region that has experienced substantial protests and demonstrations in the last ... -
Perspectives on the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation
(Institute of Development Studies, 2018-07-24)The establishment of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC) created the unique opportunity to bring together and explore synergies between South–South cooperation (SSC) and traditional aid, ... -
Mutual Learning for Universal Health Coverage
(Institute of Development Studies, 2018-07-04)Accelerating progress towards the goal of achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030 is an essential component of equitable, sustainable and resilient development. 60 per cent of all deaths are caused by chronic ... -
Reducing Health Inequalities in Brazil’s Universal Health-Care System: Accountability Politics in São Paulo
(Institute of Development Studies, 2018-05-01)Brazil relies on the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), a public health-care system used by nearly 65 per cent of the population. This article analyses the role played by accountability mechanisms in expanding access to primary ... -
Learning from Brazil's Food and Nutrition Security Policies
(Food Foundation / IDS, 2018-02)This paper provides an overview of the findings of a UK-Brazil learning exchange, which took place between British and Brazilian policy actors working in food and nutrition who were interested in learning from each other’s ... -
Brazil's Policies to Guarantee Food Rights
(Food Fouindation / IDS, 2017-07)In the last two decades, Brazil has worked hard to tackle deep-rooted food and nutrition insecurity through a range of social policies and programmes. Between 1990 and 2015, the percentage of the population suffering from ... -
Brazil's Food and Nutritional Governance Plan
(Food Foundation / IDS, 2017-07)This briefing pack provides a snapshot of Brazil’s national framework for food and nutritional security policy, and showcases a number of specific programmes aimed at improving nutritional outcomes, including school meals, ... -
Who Drives Climate-Relevant Policies in the Rising Powers?
(Informa, 2017)The future of human life on our planet is influenced increasingly by what goes on in the rising powers. This paper provides a political economy analysis of the climate-relevant policies of China, India, Brazil and South ... -
The Role of Social and Political Action in Advancing Women’s Rights, Empowerment, and Accountability to Women
(IDS, 2017-06)Through the lens of four case studies focused on women’s political participation (Palestine and Sierra Leone), and the passage of domestic violence law (Brazil and South Africa), this paper looks at the role of social and ... -
Innovation, solidarity and South-South Learning: the role of civil society from middle-income countries in effective development cooperation
(Institute of Development Studies, 2015-04)Civil society organisations (CSOs) from middle-income countries can play multiple strategically important roles in effective development cooperation. Beyond demanding transparency and accountability around the aid ... -
Supporting 'Autonomy and Resistance' : the Brazil-Mozambique-South Africa native seed bank project
(Institute of Development Studies, 2014-04)This case study explores an innovative multi-stakeholder project led civil society in three countries: Brazil, Mozambique and South Africa. The “community native seeds banks in family farming areas” knowledge-sharing ... -
Beyond ‘family farming versus agribusiness’ dualism: unpacking the complexity of Brazil’s agricultural model
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2016-11)Agriculture has played a hugely important role in the recent history of Brazil’s economy. The country had a food production deficit until as late as the 1970s, but since the early twenty-first century has been one of the ... -
‘Traditional Peoples’ and the Struggle for Inclusive Land Governance in Brazil
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-08-24)In recent decades, Brazil has attracted international interest both for the intensity of its land conflicts and for the extent of its land governance innovations. In this report we argue that these innovations have derived ... -
Building Mutual Learning between the Rising Powers
(IDS, 2016-08)This Evidence Report provides a summary account of the Mutual Learning research initiative at the Institute of Development Studies, carried out from 2012 to 2014 as part of the Rising Powers in International Development ...