by Global Development Institute | Dec 13, 2018 | Comment
4-15 March 2019, Arusha Tanzania with WISE – Futures and The University of Manchester Course description: Across the African continent, increasing climatic variability and the uneven distribution and availability of both surface and subsurface water resources...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 11, 2018 | Comment
Professor Phil Woodhouse gave a lecture entitled; ‘How can irrigation contribute to agricultural growth in Africa?’. The lecture was based on Prof Woodhouse’s recent research project Studying African Farmer Led Irrigation (SAFI). Listen or watch to...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 11, 2018 | Comment
While our campus based master’s programmes are regularly oversubscribed, they don’t work for everyone. If you’re in a job you love, or have family commitments – but still want to immerse yourself in postgraduate study then a distance learning programme can be an...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 7, 2018 | Comment
Henning Melber, President of the EADI and Julia Schöneberg, Research Fellow at the University of Kassel Brazil as the latest example shows: right-wing populism remains on the rise, unleashing the brute force of predator capitalism under authoritarian regimes. The...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 6, 2018 | Comment
Dr Constance Smith, Hallsworth Fellow in Social Anthropology, The University of Manchester ‘Those building materials are bad! See that steel, it is very small. The bricks are also weak, they could not build a tall building like this’. Standing amid the rubble of a...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 6, 2018 | Comment
GDI researcher Seth Schindler recently presented at The First General Assembly of the Alliance of Scientific Organizations (ANSO) in the Belt and Road Region, in Beijing, China. Created by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ANSO brings together researchers, policy...
