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| 1st Issue April 2025 Editorial Today we’re proud to present the very first podcast from our methods innovation task group. Our blog has also been quite busy over the last two weeks with three new posts offering food for thought. Our new Working Group on Latin American Development Studies is hosting its very first webinar, and our thematic focus is on Agriculture today. From our Blog Is the Green Transition an Opportunity for Structural Industry Transformation in the Global South? This is our second blog post drawing on Arthur Lewis’s seminal work: to what extent can his dual-economy framework help us examine contemporary structural transformation? The authors argue that the Global South can only take full advantage of technological spillovers « if we redefine the opportunities and remove the barriers that prevent it from developing a green economy on its own terms. » Read more The New Washington Dissensus: Trump’s Five Principles for Development Cooperation « The Trump administration has set out to radically reshape U.S. foreign aid, pushing the “America First” agenda to ensure every dollar spent abroad serves American interests. The latest indication comes in the form of a 36-question survey sent to international organizations and NGOs that are USAID recipients (…) This questionnaire is not just a bureaucratic exercise; it is a populist and at least partly far-right ideology. », write Andy Sumner and Stephan Klingebiel Read more Analyzing Community Representation in the Kenyan Aid Chain « Our research shows that marginalized groups can and do speak for themselves, though their contributions and skills are not always recognized or valued by (trans)national advocacy organizations ». On the example of community-based organisations in Kenya, this blog discusses how and why form and type of such organisation matter for making their voices heard. Read more To the blog overview First « Innovating Methods » Podcast Out We’re happy to share our very first podcast from our task group on methods innovation which showcases innovative, emerging or underappreciated methods in development research. This episode is a conversation with Joanna Wheeler, founder and director of TransformativeStory and Alison Buckler, Senior Research Fellow at the Open University in the UK, on story and storytelling. We look at how this can be used in research, communications, and understanding how people learn. Listen From EADI Working Groups Latin America at a Crossroad: Navigating US-China Tensions on a Multipolar World, 22 April, 19.00 CET Our Working Group on Latin American Development Studies cordially invites you to its first webinar! Read more and register Rural Land Markets and Accumulation in an Agrarian Periphery: A Class-Relational Approach to Rentierism in India New paper by Mihika Chatterjee from our Land, Labour and Food Working Group Read the paper News from the EJDR: Special Collection Celebrating the publisher’s silver anniversary, the Editors have selected 10 of the journal’s most influential articles for a special collection. The following articles are open access for 60 days: Resilience Pathways of Informal Settlements in Nairobi: Stasis, Decline, Adaptation, and Transformation The Association Between Women’s Education and Employment and Household Food Security in Afghanistan Browse the collection Highlight The Making of an International Investment Facilitation Framework. Legal, Political and Economic Perspectives This open access book co-edited by IDOS’s Axel Berger comprehensively investigates the rationale and effects of the first multilateral agreement on investment facilitation for development, including the interests of key WTO members. It adopts a multidisciplinary, transregional and data-driven approach to explore the political, economic and legal aspects pertaining to the most recent WTO agreement. The book brings together leading experts from various disciplines and practices. Read more Highlight (Un)Settling Place. Diverse and Divergent Place-Making of People on the Move This open access book co-edited by Nanneke Winters from ISS recentralizes the ‘out-of-the-way’ places that migrants occupy as key sites in the shaping of people’s mobility and identities. People who are “on the move” often inhabit places that are considered temporary, peripheral, and remote. Ranging from the surveillance and care that migrants experience to the re-creation of social ties and the re-claiming of space, this collection volume seeks to show how a critical approach to in-between place-making can challenge the idea of place as fixed, singular, or one-directional. Read more Featured EADI Member: Transnational Institute The Transnational Institute (TNI) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, is an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic, and sustainable planet. For over 50 years, TNI has served as a unique nexus between social movements, engaged scholars, and policymakers. It has put together a dossier on Palestine which sheds light on the most recent developments, while also providing historical context and situating the Palestinian liberation struggle in an international context. Read more Thematic Focus: Agriculture Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America Journal of Rural Studies – L. Lécuyer, S. Calla, B. Coolsaet, I. Rodríguez, J.C. Young – School of International Development, University of East Anglia (DEV) Mapping Present and Future Agroforestry in Africa. Abdoul Asziz Diouf, Alisher Mirzabaev, Cheikh Mbow et al. – Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung ZEF Making crop insurance work for small-scale farmers: a review of recent evidence Emma Blackmore, Alejandro Guarín & Giulia Nicolini – International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) Understanding farmers’ attitudes and aspirations for tree-cover restoration in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania Forest Policy and Economics – Eleanor Durrant, Pete Howson, Susannah M. Sallu et al. – Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds (SRI) Agriculture in the next European budget: avoiding the status quo Elsa Régnier, Valérie Noël & Pierre-Marie Aubert – Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI) Peasants and migrant workers in the farms and the mines: synergies and contradictions Agriculture and Human Values – Doi Ra – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) Farmers’ decision processes about biocontrol innovation adoption: dynamics surrounding push-pull technology in Western Kenya Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems – Olufemi Samson Adesina, Stephen Whitfield, Susannah M. Sallu et al. – Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds (SRI) Approaches to participation and knowledge equity in agricultural climate impacts modelling: a systematic literature review International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability – R. Sarku, S. Whitfield, S. Jennings et al. – Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds (SRI) Enhancing Agricultural Sustainability through Micro-Irrigation. Ashok Gulati, Ankana Rana and Ritika Juneja – Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung ZEF Premium Members Publication Picks Towards an institutional setup for industrial policy in late industrialization in the 21st century Development Policy Review – Jan Grumiller, Werner Raza – Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE) Introduction A decolonial approach to counter-terrorism in a global context In: Global counter-terrorism – Sagnik Dutta, Tahir Abbas, Sylvia I. Bergh – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) Financing for development: from Monterrey to Seville Stephan Klingebiel, Stephan, Jorge A. Pérez-Pineda / Kathrin Berensmann (eds.) – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Age, climate and economic disparities drive the current state of global dam safety Nature Water – Antonio Moreno-Rodenas, Juan Diego Mantilla-Jones, Daniel Valero – IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (IHE Delft) Importing export zones: Processes and impacts of replicating a Chinese model of urbanisation in rural south India In: The Urbanising Dynamics of Global China – Charlotte Goodburn, Jan Knoerich – Department of International Development King’s College London (DID) Furthering a feminist fiscal agenda: Engendering tax and development Development Policy Review – Anuradha Joshi, Jalia Kangave, Vanessa van den Boogaard – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) An Elusive Fiscal Social Contract: Three Lessons from South Africa Sansia Blackmore, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad – Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI) Africa’s mining potential: Current landscape, opportunities, and challenges Philippe Bosse, Patrice Ebah, Julien Gourdon, Nicolas Hubert et al. – The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Read more about EADI Members Policy Publication Picks by Members EU instruments to counter fragility and crises Volker Hauck, Sophie Desmidt – European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) Designing Social Assistance Programmes for Displaced People Collyer, Dolf J.H. te Lintelo, Tahir Zaman – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Allocating international loss and damage finance through national climate funds: prospects for African LDCs Mariya Aleksandrova, Washington Onyango Kanyangi, Assouhan Jonas Atchadé et al. – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Empowering parents and caregivers as literacy champions to support foundational learning in low-resourced contexts Eric Addae-Kyeremeh, Margaret Ebubedike, Kwame Akyeampong et al. – The Centre for the Study of Global Development, The Open University (CSGD & OU) Ambition for action: a framework for assessing NDCs 07 April 2025 – Anna Pérez Català, Marta Torres Gunfaus & Henri Waisman – Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI) From Soft Sanctions to Engagement: The EU’s Evolving Responses to Thailand’s Democratic Openings Janjira Sombatpoonsiri – German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Cross-border legacies of conflict exposure: understanding social well-being of Syrian refugees in Jordan Tilman Brück, Francisca Castro, Hadi Jaafar et al. – International Security and Development Center gGmbH (ISDC) Designing a List of “Priority” Countries for Bilateral Aid. Methodological Note with Reference to French Aid Sosso Feindouno & Patrick Guillaumont – Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI) Picks from International Partner Networks Maestras y maestros en América Latina J. Bustamante Vismara, A. Loayza Pérez, P. Reisin (eds) – The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO Descolonizar la naturaleza. Por una ecología política latinoamericana : textos reunidos de Héctor Alimonda 1982-2017 H. Alimonda – The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO Tipping points or turning point? Science-based priorities for the ocean we need Salvatore Aricò – International Science Council ISC Science diplomacy and the global state of affairs Peter Gluckman – International Science Council ISC |
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| Jobs Postdoctorant·e: projet de recherche Inégalités économiques et comportements de prévention face aux risques naturels Deadline: 15 April 2024 – Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI) Senior Researcher (f/m/diverse) “Transformation of political (dis-)order” Deadline: 23 April 2025 – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) See more job offers on the EADI website Opinions The circus of academic complicity. A tragicomic spectacle of evasion on the world stage of genocide Gert Van Hecken – Transnational Institute TNI A revolution for land and life in Colombia – and the world Jun Borras, Itayosara Rojas Herrera – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) The art of the deal: Securing Europe’s economic future through strategic alliances Alfonso Medinilla, Chloe Teevan, Karim Karaki – European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) Equity and inclusion in urban youth interventions: lessons from three continents Dolf J.H. te Lintelo, Marjoke Oosterom – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Science as early casualty in the authoritarian turn Sven Grimm, Anna-Katharina Hornidge – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Silencing peace research: Trump’s shutdown of USIP Arne Strand – Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI) Trump’s global tariff shock Enrique Feás, Miguel Otero Iglesias & Federico Steinberg – Real Instituto Elcano Trump’s Tariffs: Is This the End of Globalisation and Global Value Chains? Khalid Nadvi – Global Development Institute (GDI) What teenage boys and foreign aid have in common: belonging, breakdown, and the rise of (authoritarian) populism Nadia Molenaers – Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp (IOB) Calls Call for Articles: « Religion, Faith, and Development: Navigating Emerging Trends, Challenges, and the Future of Secularism » Deadline: 30 April 2025 – Society for International Development (SID) Call for Opinion Pieces – Potential Implications of the Suspension of USAID on Funding for Development Research Development Studies Association Ireland DSAI Call for papers: (How) does social protection promote climate change mitigation and adaptation? Empirical evidence and way forward, Bonn, 26-28 Novemberr 2025 Deadline: 30 April 2025 – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Call for papers: Special Issue on Mining and the Forest. Journal of Forest Economics Deadline: 30 June 2025 Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique pour l’Étude de la Mondialisation et du Développement (GEMDEV) See more calls on the EADI Website Training Using Participatory Action Research to Improve Development Practice, 12-16 May 2025 Application deadline: 21 April 2025 – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Design Thinking for Sustainable Development, 26-28 May 2025 ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL) Enabling empowered community engagement and involvement in global health research, 16-20 June 2025 Application deadline: 26 May 2025 – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Shaping Policies and Programmes with Evidence online course, 03 June-10 July 2025 Application deadline: 13 May 2025 – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) See more courses and tranings on the EADI website Opinion continued Flying blind: losing our data on poverty Sabina Alkire – Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House (ODID) Frelimo and the fate of Mozambique Pedro Alarcón – Copenhagen Business School, Department of Management, Society and Communication (MSC) |