In July 2019, the Sheffield Institute for International Development was privileged to have several colleagues with diverse expertise on conservation visiting from Tanzania: Christine Noe from the University of Dar es Salaam as well as Thabit Ja

Natural Resource Management in Tanzania’s Usangu Plains

Oct 27th, 2017 25m 54s

How do people in rural areas in the global south access water and land – essential resources for their livelihoods? And how do institutions work to shape natural resource management and development? This is the ongoing focus of Frances Cleaver

The challenges facing the Fairtrade system

Oct 16th, 2017 27m 55s

Recently, companies that had supported the Fairtrade label through retail partnerships have decided to step away from this engagement. Cadbury one of the main supporters of the Fairtrade label has launched its own label “Cocoa Life”, although F

What are the key research questions to inform and support international development?

Oct 9th, 2017 18m 26s

Dr Daniel Hammett is a senior lecturer within the Department of Geography. His research and teaching focuses on political geographies of the global south. In this podcast, he talks us through the ‘100 questions’ project, and gives us a glimpse

Interventionism for the non-human world intensifying militarised conversation

Oct 2nd, 2017 23m 47s

Military-style approaches are being employed as a means to call a halt to wildlife losses. This has led many to question whether such approaches are necessary to ensure the adequate conservation of some of our favourite animals. In the podcast,

Measuring What Matters: Wellbeing and Sustainable Development

Sep 25th, 2017 18m 34s

Wellbeing is more than just being happy. But what exactly is it in its entirety and how can we measure its levels within our societies? Allister McGregor, is a Professor in Political Economy. He uses a human wellbeing framing to understand why

Urban Change and Gender in the Global South

Sep 18th, 2017 27m 57s

In this podcast, Dr Paula Meth, Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies, discusses urban change and gender in the global south.What happens to relations between men and women when they move from dire ‘slum’ conditions to proper housing? This was the

Diversities in Contemporary Childhoods in Sub Saharan Africa

Sep 8th, 2017 16m 3s

In this podcast, Dr Afua Twum Danso-Imoh, Lecturer in the Sociology of Childhood, discusses diversities in contemporary childhoods in Sub Saharan Africa.Both academic and popular discourses on childhoods in Sub Saharan Africa (and elsewhere i

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