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Recent Blogposts

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The EU’s Deforestation Regulation: Chances for Inclusive Sustainable Forest and Agricultural Commodity Chains

Marcelo Inacio da Cunha, George T. Mudimu - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
It is undisputable that addressing deforestation, biodiversity loss, and climate change requires a collectively effort globally. Although the private sector – as a key element of forest and agricultural value chains – is far from doing enough reduce its share in deforestation, it could serve as a paramount lever if pushed towards effectively halting the expansion of the agricultural frontier into forests.
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Feeling the Colonial: Affective Decolonisation in Development Studies Classrooms

Carla Maria Friederike Diem - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
“I hope for a world where International Development Studies cease to exist.” was the first line of my motivation letter to the University of Amsterdam (UvA). A provocation, yes – but also a belief. A way to signal that I saw the contradictions at the heart of the discipline – that a field born out of colonial legacies, and sustained by the hierarchies it claims to dismantle, cannot be reformed without eventually ceasing to exist. I thought this was an idealistic position. What I did not realise was just how intimately I would come to feel the weight of those contradictions – in my emotions, in my learning, and in my hope.
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Global and International Development Against all Inequalities

Alessandra Mezzadri - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
Since its inception after World War II, Development Studies has been deeply intertwined with the socio-economic transformation of formerly colonized countries. Initially, the discipline was tasked with addressing the question of how these newly independent nations could be integrated into the world system. This integration was closely linked to the process of modernization, a goal shared by many of these nascent governments. However, the object and subjects of development have always been contested.
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