Blog Insights

Professor Uma Kambhampati, Professor of Economics and Head of School of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, University of Reading, is part of a consortium of six universities working on the Generation...Read More >

PhD researcher Juliet Ainomugisha is an agronomist and plant pathologist, undertaking her PhD programme at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy. Juliet is specialising in food security,...Read More >

Gilbert Ngwaneh Miki, a PhD student in the Department of International Development, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, contributed to a White Paper titled ‘School Meals and Food Systems: Rethinking...Read More >

Millets are not only recognised as important for food security because of their nutritional value but also for their resilience and adaptability to diverse environmental conditions, which is highly valuable...Read More >

The University of Reading recently hosted the Development Studies Association’s (DSA) annual conference in June 2023. The conference theme was ‘Crisis in the Anthropocene: Rethinking Connection and Agency for Development’….Read More >

Community researchers have been central to the participatory approach undertaken in the Transnational Families in Europe: Care, Inequalities and Wellbeing research project.

On the 10th of November the Global Development Research Division held its first workshop of the year around the topic of “the Anthropocene”, which is the primary theme for the…Read More >

Division member and human geographer Anna Jackman has recently returned from a short fellowship in Norway at The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).Anna was invited to PRIO as part of…Read More >

On the 14th of September, Division Member and microeconomist Florent Dubois participated in a roundtable at the University of the Witwatersrand as part of the PHC PROTEA research project “Domestic…Read More >

Food security has been headlining the news and occupying a central position in academic research for longer than anyone can recall.  Moreover, achieving Global food security has been a long-term…Read More >