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Drawing on political ecology, this article looks at the social and ecological ramifications of unsustainable sand extraction.

ISS working paper 674

An article about the destructiveness of the global food system, making space for trees and smallholders.

ISS working paper 673

Article on the recently published UNDP Human Development Report about the changes that became evident in the last decade, why universality is required to tackle

Does artisanal mining in DRC feed violence, conflict, underdevelopment and poverty? What impact have recent reforms had? This article attempts an answer.

ISS students and researchers support Myanmar students, teachers and people in the resistance against the military junta.

New post on ISS blog BlISS describing the European Journal of Development Research special issue focusing on youths’ aspirations for change.

In his postdoc-project, Otieno Ong'ayo investigates how diaspora communities have organized transnationally in order to influence local policies.

Open access publishing is important because in this way research becomes accessible even outside the university environment.