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Food security in Africa: how can food crises be avoided in the long term?

Brüntrup / Michael (2022)
External Publications

The world is heading for a famine of unimaginable dimensions – not least because of the war in Ukraine. Africa continues to be the problem child when it comes to food security worldwide. One of the most important responses to the current challenges hails from the continent itself: The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). It is not yet well implemented, but it is the best the continent has to offer at the trans-national level, and it is ambitious. Now Africa has to deliver, and we should support it!

A long-term perspective for the current energy crisis

Böhl Gutierrez, Mauricio / Daniele Malerba (2022)
The Current Column, 17. October 2022

Carbon fiscal reforms could improve coherence between the current energy crisis policies and longer-term approaches, establishing a link between short-term measures and the just transition process.

Prospects and challenges for cooperation between Republic of Korea and Germany

Bonn and Zoom, 17. October 2022

Context and workshop objective This conference is organised in the context of a joint research project between by Ewha Womans University and the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), which explores synergies between Korean and German development cooperation and their wider multilateral engagement. The joint project…

Tackling the Climate Challenge in the Anthropocene

Bonn & Zoom, 17. October 2022

While environmental issues have been at the forefront of international concerns since the earliest days of the UN system, over the years, there has been growing recognition about the limits of the planet and the boundaries beyond which the global systems become unstable. After the creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,…

UN Leadership in Times of Crises

Bonn, 11. October 2022

The world is undergoing multiple, simultaneous crises in a way we have not seen before. Crises like the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine hit back-to-back, and are interacting with sweeping social and economic shifts, dangerous planetary changes, and increases in polarization and loss of social cohesion in many societies. Added to…

Food Security

Bolduc, Nathalie / Fabrizio Bott / Michael Brüntrup / Koen Dekeyser / Ines Dombrowsky / Jean-Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco (2022)
External Publications

Agroecology and rural development: acting in the Global North - for and with the Global South

Steglich, Mirjam / Thomas Beutler / Saymore Ngonidzashe Kativu et al. (2022)
External Publications

Mexico’s “catch-22”: the implications of being a trade and climate partner of the United States and the European Union

Lucatello, Simone (2022)
Discussion Paper 11/2022

Are Mexico’s trade agreements suitable to tackle climate change? This paper looks at the interplay of treaties with the US/Canada and the EU, and the potential impact of the EU Green Deal. Caught between trade arrangements with giant partners, Mexico may be trapped in a “catch-22” situation.

New standard indicators for German development cooperation: How useful are numbers “at the touch of a button”?

Janus, Heiner / Daniel Esser (2022)
Policy Brief 7/2022

The previous German government demanded "numbers at the push of a button" for German development cooperation. This call was answered in 2022 in the form of 43 newly introduced standard indicators. Heiner Janus and Daniel Esser assess the potential of this reform and call for greater transparency.

Trust in institutions and perceptions of the tax system among informally employed people

von Schiller, Armin (2022)
External Publications

An opportunity to demand more effectiveness for better results

Esser, Daniel (2022)
The Current Column, 26. September 2022

The Bundestag’s first debate on the proposed federal development budget for 2023, which took place earlier this month, was a worrisome testament to the state of international development politics in Germany.

Early insights from the first year of the UN Decade for Ocean Science

Schoderer, Mirja / Ramona Hägele (2022)
The Current Column, 19. September 2022

As discussions within the UN Decade of Ocean Science and at the UN Oceans Conference in Lisbon have shown, ocean science struggles with accessibility

Promoting New Ways of Knowledge Production and Policy Transfer

Online, 15. September 2022

In recent years, both the cooperation project Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer (FFVT) and the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) have been actively building strong international networks consisting of Southern and Northern, Eastern and Western academic experts with and without lived…

Food security and agriculture

Special "Food security and agriculture for a world without hunger": Food security and agriculture have made a remarkable return to the global agenda. With a world population and incomes increasing, demand for agricultural products is rising. Natural resources – land, water and biodiversity – are under pressure. In addition, new developments such as modern technologies, biofuels or large scale investments in land challenge traditional modes rural development. How can we achieve food security?

The Nexus Water - Energy - Land - Climate

Special „The Nexus Water - Energy - Land - Climate“: This topic special presents relevant works and activities on which incentives, governance mechanism and policy instruments could reduce negative effects and stimulate win-win solutions.

NDC Explorer

Special "NDC Explorer": The NDC Explorer is an interactive tool, which made NDCs information accessible and usable online.

State Fragility

Special State Fragility: Our new online research tool allows to distinguish six Constellations of State Fragility – and to analyse data for 171 states and ten indicators in three dimensions.

Transformative force of Digitalisation

Special "Transformative force of Digitalisation": The German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) addresses the tension between our digital potential and current politics and procedures through innovative, policy-relevant research.

Impact-oriented accompanying research

Special "Impact-oriented accompanying research": As a partner of many implementing agencies, DIE conducts rigorous impact assessments covering topics such as governance, social protection, taxation, digitalization and agriculture.

Urbanization, the Climate Crisis, and the Role of the G7

Roll, Michael (2022)
The Current Column, 12. September 2022

Considering the large number of international initiatives that already deal with urbanization and the climate crisis, what contribution to global sustainable urban development could the G7 make?