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Merry Christmas and a happy new year from the IDS Community. See key international development dates for 2009 and find out why we think they're important.

As the International Year of Sanitation draws to a close, a conference at IDS brought together professionals from around the world to share research and insights on Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS).

Thirty years since China launched its economic reforms a DFID China seminar series explores what lessons can be learned from China's development success. Listen to podcasts of the IDS events.

Highlights from the 11th Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) Forum.

On Thursday 11 December Jeffrey Sachs gave a lecture entitled 'Was Malthus Right After All?', on global population growth and the challenge of sustainable development.

IDS Researchers comment on a new report on agricultural knowledge for development and ask what lessons can we draw from it for the future.

The term scaling up has many meanings in the health community. The essence of the term is to significantly increase the effective use of a technology, process or idea. But there are many ways of doing this, and many lessons that have been learned the hard way have not been shared.

New research by Children in a Changing Climate, led by IDS, shows that children living in poor areas of Nepal understand the need to change their lives and the livelihoods of their families in response to climate change.

How can India transform itself into the vibrant knowledge-based society it aspires to be? Part of the answer has to lie in the ideas, experience, skills and motivations of this vast nation’s information professionals.

On Monday 1 December Members from IDS and the Climate Change and Development Centre presented a side event on China and emissions at the UN Climate Change Talks in Poznan.