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| 1st Issue February 2025 Editorial Today we can offer you a few more reflections around decolonising the field: two new blog posts approach the topic from a personal and methodological angle, a podcast discusses evaluation, and one of our highlights includes a toolkit for researchers. Yet another episode of our « Hierarchies of Development » podcast is out, and we are pleased to invite you to this working group webinar on 26 February, Our thematic focus is on food today, apart from the usual picks, training opportunities, calls and vacancies further below. From our Blog What Challenges for Global Development Research are Posed by a More Decolonial Approach? In this post, Laura Camfield from King’s College, London, explores colonial continuities in research methods and examines the potential of decolonial alternatives, acknowledging the challenges posed by existing power dynamics within the field: « While decolonial research shares some common ground with participatory approaches, including its vulnerability to co-option, if taken seriously, it challenges the entire ecosystem of development research. » Read more Learning and Unlearning: Sowing the Seeds of a Decolonising Mindset In this very personal story, IDS Director Peter Taylor tells us how being an agriculture teacher in Botswana shaped his perception of development and further work: « Engaging with the knowledge and experience of those I worked with, not only influenced my own approaches within this broad field of development. They also encouraged me more recently to engage with debates on development and coloniality, especially around intellectual ‘decolonisation’ or decolonising knowledge. » Read more To the blog overview New Episode Hierarchies of Development Podcast! The Tricontintenal and the Arts In this episode, we explore the post-Bandung period from the perspective of cultural and artistic movements with the interdisciplinary scholar Anne Garland Mahler. We discuss the anti-colonial spirit of the time as well as the intricacies of non-alignment, international politics, imperialism and racial justice in and beyond the Global South. Read more and listen To the podcast overview page Another « Decolonising Knowledge » Podcast Out! Redesigning Evaluation in Development Cooperation Listen to Yulye Jessica Romo Ramos (Nexus Evaluation Ltd) reflect on her experience in the field of evaluation in development cooperation, and how to make the sector more diverse, inclusive and equitable. Jessica is interviewed by Adam Moe Fejerskov from the Danish Institute for International Studies Read more and listen To the Decolonising Knowledge overview page Working Group Webinar on 26 February Climate Change, Health and Well-Being in Urbanising Southeast Asia Our Climate Change and Health Nexus Working Group invites you to this side-event at the UNESCAP Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development. This event unites key regional and international partners to focus on the most climate-vulnerable yet under-represented groups in research and policy. Read more and register See all EADI Working Groups Lastest Issue EJDR The February Issue of our journal, the European Journal of Development Research (EJDR), ist out, including several open access articles, for example: Social Enterprise Under Moral Hazard: Who Gets State Subsidies and Active Financing? Integrating Environmental Justice into Child-Sensitive Social Protection: The Environmental Roots of Intergenerational Poverty in Amazonia Long-Term Effects of Childhood Exposure to War on Domestic Violence Browse the issue Highlight: Decolonising Research Tackling Obstacles and working through Challenges This working paper incorporates insights from the University of York’s Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC) Decolonising Development Research Podcast series with existing literature to examine the opportunities and challenges of decolonising research. Drawing on podcast contributors’ first-hand experiences, as well as other case studies, this paper presents a toolkit of considerations researchers can work through to overcome or manage these challenges. Read more Highlight: Geopolitics of Capitalism. State of Power 2025 Geopolitical rivalry is reshaping our planet as reactionary nationalists take power and global tensions mount. The Transnational Institute’s 13th State of Power report explores whether this is the end of US imperialism and the beginning of a Chinese empire, the way nationalism is reshaping neoliberal globalisation, and the implications of a shifting global order for the vast majority of the world and for social movements fighting for justice. 12 essays shed the light on the most pressing contemporary issues in a fractured world and the search for alternatives to imperialism and authoritarianism. Read more Thematic Focus: Food Making a success of the food transition: the contribution of the TRAMe2035 scenario Mathieu Saujot, Charlie Brocard & Clémence Nasr – Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI) Contribution of community seed banks to farmer seed systems and food security in Northern and Central Malawi Food Policy – Grace Tione, Ola Tveitereid Westengen, Stein Terje Holden et al. – Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) Analyzing the impact of irrigation on dietary diversity: a comparison between farmer-led and public irrigation in Kenya. Food Security – Nixon Murathi Kiratu, Eefje Aarnoudse, Martin Petrick – International Center for Sustainable Development (IZNE) Transforming the food system for health and sustainability: Unleashing social innovation through collaborative research Ian Vickers, Fergus Lyon, Katerina Psarikidou et al. – Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) Advancing transformative adaptation through social equity: Land, water and food systems in the Global South Current Research in Environmental Sustainability – Eleanor Fisher, Jon Hellin, Mary Ng’endo – Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) Local and regional food production diversity are positively associated with household dietary diversity in rural Africa. Nature Food – Thanh-Tung Nguyen & Matin Qaim – Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung ZEF Premium Members Publication Picks Net Zero Export Finance: Lessons for Austria from International Best Practice Kyjas Schlögl, David Pfaffenbichler, Werner Raza – Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE) Five-Star Humanitarianism? Navigating Gulf Aid in the Aftermath of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan Middle East Critique – Hanna Berg – The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) Professional development in the digital age: supporting improvements in teacher education through MOOCs Open Learning – Kris Stutchbury, Margaret Ebubedike, Sandra Amoz, Liz Chamberlain – The Centre for the Study of Global Development, Open University (CSGD & OU) From India Stack to EuroStack: Reconciling approaches to sovereign digital infrastructure Chloe Teevan, Raphael Pouyé, Gautam Kamath – European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) Taxation and Governance in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Prospects for a Fiscal Social Contract Sansia Blackmore, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad – Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI) Defining Price Stability: Public Accountability of the European Central Bank’s Goal Independence Politics and Governance – Mattias Vermeiren – Ghent Centre for Global Studies (GCGS – UGent) The role of lag phases between real-term marine heatwaves in the trait responses of two macrophyte species Marine Environmental Research – Lucy G. Gillis, Salvador Román, Camilla Gustafsson et al. – IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (IHE Delft) A glance at international challenges of refugee crises in the new millenium Marcela Rocha, Eduardo Moraes Sarmento – Centre for African and Development Studies CESA-ISEG Sustainable Urban Development in the European Arctic Open access book – Dorothea Wehrmann, Michał Łuszczuk, Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak, Jacqueline Götze, Arne Riedel – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Defining a safe and just operating space for the Norwegian economy Ecological Economics – Thomas Røkås, Erik Gómez-Baggethun – Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) Environmental Change, Development Challenges – Revisited IDS Bulletin – Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones (eds.) – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Assessing the distributional impacts of development interventions – the Inequality Marker Christian Morabito, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa – The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) No Development (Economics or Studies) Without Decolonisation The European Journal of Development Research – Devika Dutt – Department of International Development King’s College London (DID) Migrant labour flows and interconnected agrarian transformations in Southern China Agriculture and Human Values – Yunan Xu, Chunyu Wang, Jingzhong Ye et al. – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) Read more about EADI Members Policy Publication Picks by Members The broken promise of loss and damage finance: Can Europe help? Daniel Adeniyi – European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) Taxing the Wealthy in Lower-Income Countries: Why It’s Important, and How to Do It Giovanni Occhiali, Giulia Mascagni, Wilson Prichard, Martin Hearson – Institute of Development Enhancing public works programmes: sustainable impact through participatory asset creation and digitalisation Francesco Burchi, Tekalign Gutu Sakketa – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Refugees in Norway: Stay or Leave Rural Areas? Henrik Lindegaard Andersen, Liv Osland – Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI) Four Years after the Coup the EU Should Increase Support for Myanmar’s Resistance GIGA Focus Asia – Richard Roewer – German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Europe’s migration block crumbles in Niger 11 February 2025 – Hans Lucht – Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) Picks from International Partner Networks Una sociología sin fronteras Open access book – Luz Gabriela Arango – The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO Call for nominations of experts for second global assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services Deadline: 28 March 2025 – International Science Council ISC Science, ethics, and power: The need for a global commons approach to emerging technologies Alessandra Turrisi – International Science Council ISC |
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| Calls Call for abstracts: Symposium on Knowledge and Capacity for the Water Sector, 02-04 July 2025, Delft & online Deadline: 17 February 2025 – IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (IHE Delft) Call for papers: Special monograph in e-pública on the teaching uses of artificial intelligence tools (September, 2025) Deadline: 20 February 2025 – Complutense Institute of International Studies (ICEI) Call for papers: 3rd Junior Workshop on The Economics of Migration Deadline: 23 February 2025 – Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI) Request for research proposals. Research using administrative tax data from Uganda Deadline: 28 February 2025 – United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) See more calls on the EADI Website Opinions Let UNRWA get back to work in Gaza Thea Hilhorst – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) Reimagining social assistance in the Kurdistan region of Iraq: The vital role of local organisations Louisa Seferis , Harem Karem, Paul Harvey – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Rebuilding Syria: A Win-Win for German-Trained Refugees and their Hosts Musallam Abedtalas, Tina Zintl – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Agriculture is driving small town growth in post-land reform Zimbabwe Ian Scoones – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Breaking barriers: How Muslim immigrant entrepreneurs in Norway navigate financial exclusion Sarah Tobin – Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI) When nature is no longer sacred: the Sacred Mijikenda Kaya forests of Kenya Asrat Gella – Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung ZEF The European Union’s Energy and Climate Partnerships: From agreements to action Thijs Van de Graaf, Elisa Díaz Gas – Ghent Centre for Global Studies (GCGS – UGent) Declining meat consumption and the economics of the French meat industry: seeking win-win solutions Pierre-Marie Aubert, Aurélie Catallo – Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI) It’s time to prioritize ethical practices in global development research Amina Ebrahim, Maria Jouste & Kelly Brito Salas – United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) Jobs PhD Position with CMI and Ashoka University Deadline: 24 February 2025 – Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI) PhD candidates (three) for the Department of Southeast Asian Studies Deadline: 02 March 2025 PhD scholarship for African scholars: Land degradation, environmental justice and socio-cultural dynamics in Africa Deadline: 15 March 2025 – Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung ZEF 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) Research Associate (Natural Resources and Climate Change) Deadline: 17 April 2025 – Global Development Institute (GDI) See more job offers on the EADI website Training Post-Fieldwork PhD Course, 17-27 February 2025 Research School for International Development CERES Leveraging Private Impact Investors in Development Cooperation, 26-28 February 2025 ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL) Climate Change and Sustainable Development, 17-21 March 2025 ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL) Decolonizing Aid, 05-09 May 2025 ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL) Design Thinking for Sustainable Development, 26-28 May 2025 ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL) Gender and Economics, 23-27 June 2025 ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL) International Summer School: Political Economies of the Media. Theories and Methods, Šibenik, 09-12 September 2025 Application deadline: 01 April 2025 – Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO) See more courses and tranings on the EADI website Opinions continued Why would Greenlanders take a deal from Trump that gives them less than they already have? Ulrik Pram Gad – Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) Building resilience through the arts Hazel Marsh – School of International Development, University of East Anglia (DEV) |