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Potential impacts of EU Deforestation Regulation on Smallholder Coffee Farmers: Evidence from Indonesia and Uganda

By 2025-05-27T10:44:15+00:00May 14, 2025|

This article explores how the EU Deforestation Regulation may affect smallholder coffee farmers in Indonesia and Uganda. With limited access to inputs and declining yields, farmers face additional strain from costly traceability requirements. The study urges public-private partnerships to boost productivity and support compliance, protecting livelihoods and coffee sector sustainability.

Breaking Chains, Building Bridges: Rethinking Just Transitions From a Global South Perspective

By 2025-05-19T15:07:37+00:00May 10, 2025|

Industrialisation is vital for economic growth in the Global South, yet it often worsens environmental harm. This article explores the tension through the lens of a ‘just transition’, recommending local job creation, green tech transfer, and global cooperation to support sustainable industrialisation while addressing climate and development goals.

Building Health Equity in Crisis Through Community-Level Action and Resilience Building: The Cases of Nigeria, Nepal and Brazil

By 2025-06-18T07:13:09+00:00May 10, 2025|

This article explores health equity during crises in the Global South, drawing on cases from Nigeria, Nepal, and Brazil. It highlights how community-based approaches, adaptive systems, and culturally sensitive interventions—like mobile health and community health workers—can reduce disparities, strengthen resilience, and guide equitable health responses in crisis-affected settings.

Taking Responsibility for International Security: Non-State Armed Groups and Under-governed Spaces in the Global South

By 2025-05-27T10:47:06+00:00May 14, 2025|

Under-governed spaces in stable Global South states can enable non-state armed groups (NSAGs) to thrive and link to transnational threat networks. Through case studies from the Caribbean, this article explores governance gaps and highlights policy solutions—like land tenure reform—to reduce NSAG influence and strengthen both local and international security.

Reshaping Discourse with Global South Perspectives

By 2025-05-28T13:15:22+00:00May 27, 2025|

Imagine a global debate on artificial intelligence (AI) centered on advancing high-cost technologies, data privacy and ethics. While these are prominent issues for developed economies, this narrow focus risks overlooking the contrasting priorities of around 85% of the world’s population—the Global South.

Safeguarding Information Integrity in the Age of AI: Perspectives from India for the Global South

By 2025-05-19T15:57:37+00:00December 2, 2024|

This article examines how generative AI worsens information pollution, threatening political and health-related information integrity in India. It calls for stronger oversight, multi-stakeholder engagement, and intermediary accountability. Key recommendations include a Global South consortium and global collaboration on media literacy, prebunking, and fact-checking to combat misinformation effectively.

Three spaces of change for reorienting North-South research partnerships

By 2024-11-12T20:43:33+00:00September 9, 2024|

What are some of the challenges that researchers from the Global South face when engaging in development research initiatives, and how can resetting the relationships that underpin North-South collaborations help? What are the pivotal areas where change is needed?



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