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Events & Workshops

Membership
Participation
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24 September 2025

NorDev25: Solidarity, Social Justice and Sustainability

24-26 September 2025, Ås, Norway

We're proud and happy to be partners at this year's NorDev Conference!

06 November 2025

Development Research Communications Workshop, Berlin, 06-07 November 2025

Save the Date!

Mark your calendars for the next in-person workshop of our Research Communications Working Group at ISDC in Berlin on 06 and 07 November 2025!

Progra…

29 June 2026

EADI/IOB General Conference 2026, Antwerp, Belgium (hybrid), 29 June - 02 July 2026

Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)Local Solutions?

We're happy to announce that our next flagship event, the EADI General Conference, will be taking place at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB)…

Blog

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Development
Research

Post-Development from the Global South: Radical Alternatives or Ambivalent Engagements?

24 June 2025 - Alba Castellsagué, Sally Matthews - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

Are communities in the Global South rejecting the idea of development in favour of radical alternatives rooted in Indigenous concepts and practices? Some commentators, such as the contributors to the…

Rebuilding Legitimacy for Global Governance: The Case for a New Independent Commission

20 June 2025 - ndy Sumner, Stephan Klingebiel, Arief Anshory Yusuf - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

The global landscape of development cooperation is fracturing. The promise of the 2030 Agenda and the pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals is giving way to geopolitical tensions. The…

Decolonizing Expertise: Reflections on Power, Knowledge, and Governance in International Organizations (IOs)

17 June 2025 - Marine Gauthier - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

A Personal Reckoning with Expertise: My engagement with international development has always been entangled with postcolonial sensitivities—an awareness shaped by my Belgian family’s colonial past, my…

Is Postdevelopment a Theory of Development? Situating Postdevelopment in Social Theory

04 June 2025 - Aram Ziai - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

Four decades after its beginnings, postdevelopment (PD) has become an established approach in development theory. Its core claim that we should ‘reject the entire paradigm of development’ and look for…

EADI at 50: Thinking Through the Winter, Looking to the Spring and the Next Chapter

27 May 2025 - Andy Sumner - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

We marked EADI’s 50th anniversary with a conference last week. As EADI president I reflect on this jubilee moment drawing from my opening remarks. Anniversaries are an opportunity for both…

Member Publications

Highlight Publications
Open Access
EADI members

Angola after dos Santos: An anthology on continuity and change

16 June 2025 - V. Bye, P. Inglês, A. Orre, J. Pearce, R. Soares de Oliveira (eds.) - Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI)

As Angola celebrates its 50th anniversary as an independent nation, it is timely to provide an assessment of the state of political, social, and economic affairs. Just over half of the life of the…

Poverty in Latin America. Feelings/Perceptions vs Material Conditions

26 May 2025 - Verónica Amarante, Maire Colacce & Federico Scalese - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

This book derives subjective poverty lines for seven Latin American countries based on a Minimum Income Question included in household expenditure surveys. It compares poverty incidence under the…

Towards food policies that support healthy and sustainable consumption - Case studies from 11 European countries highlighting good practices for demand-side policies

19 May 2025 - Stephanie Wunder, Charlie Brocard et al. - Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI)

This report gathers analyses of demand-side food policies in 11 European countries. Each case study provides background information on the country’s progress towards better coordinated, thus…

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