Food security and agriculture for a world without hunger
The research and advisory project addresses the question of how development cooperation can make a more effective contribution to improving food security
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Strait of Hormuz
The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is intensifying existing crises and hitting low-income countries the hardest. IDOS analyses the current situation in the Strait of Hormuz from a development policy perspective.
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
Pastoralism for Sustainable Development: Recognise, Respect, Restore
Given its contributions to food security, biodiversity conservation, climate protection, and rural development, this recognition is overdue.
Read moreEurope is shifting its attention to energy resources in Latin America
The Strait of Hormuz has effectively been closed for months, with oil and gas shipments remaining blocked. As countries around the world search for a way out of the energy crisis, supply chains are shifting and gas imports from Latin America are becoming an attractive option for Germany.
Read moreEvents
Bonn, 08.06.2026 until 18.06.2026
Bonn, 17.06.2026
Online, 18.06.2026
Current publications
Three Implications of the oil shock for the turbulent political economy of development cooperation
Sumner, Andy / Stephan Klingebiel(2026)
published on developmentresearch.eu, 12.06.2026
The 2026 US–Israel–Iran war has produced what the International Energy Agency describes as the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market. Brent crude rose from around $70 at the end of February to a peak of about $140 in early April before settling around $100 as of early June 2026. In a new Brief we argue that the significance of the oil shock lies not only in the price increase itself but in its timing.
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