Food security and agriculture
The research and advisory project addresses the question of how development cooperation can make a more effective contribution to improving food security in rural sub-Saharan Africa.
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Disruption and Reform
In light of global crises and increasingly disruptive, authoritarian forms of politics, forward-looking, cooperative reforms are necessary to secure sustainable development, international cooperation and democratic foundations. In this web special you will find IDOS's work on the dynamics of our 2025/26 annual theme, ‘Disruption and Reform’.
Opinion pieces and media contributions
How development policy can avert the fertiliser crisis
The crisis calls for short-term measures – but also offers an opportunity for a long-overdue paradigm shift.
Read moreAfter the 14th Ministerial Conference of the WTO: Sobering Pragmatism
The moratorium was a proxy for a deeper unwillingness to compromise: the inability of member states to set aside their particular interests for the greater good of a functioning multilateral trading system.
Read moreEvents
Online, 16.04.2026
Jakarta, 19.04.2026 until 23.04.2026
Bonn, 05.05.2026
Current publications
Aid for trade, political ties, and global value chains: a regime-dependent effect?
Aboushady, Nora / Georges Harb / Chahir Zaki (2025)
Formal and informal labor demand in Egyptian manufacturing firms
El-Haddad, Amirah / Caroline Krafft / Irene Selwaness / Ragui Assaad (2026)
Back to the future: the Pact for the Mediterranean and the mirage of Euro-Mediterranean integration
Furness, Mark (2026)
Bullshit urgency and washing machines: As the US scrambles for a plan for Iran, pitfalls loom large
Esser, Daniel E. / Heiner Janus (2026)
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