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Unintended risks for smallholder in the Global South? Example of the cocoa sector in Côte d’Ivoire

Kirioua, Alla Jacques / Michael Brüntrup (2023)
The Current Column, 15. August 2023

There are doubts, however, whether the EU regulation can really make a change for the better, or whether it has the potential to make things worse.

Food security in West and Central Africa

Online, 18. August 2023

The West and Central Africa regional block of the African Academy Alumni Network organized a webinar under the topic “Food security in West and Central Africa: The need to reinforce sustainable mechanism”. The objective of this webinar was to provide a space for insightful inputs on the topic and joint discussions. African Academy Alumni…

Are Southern voices and the SDGs the way to success for India’s G20 presidency?

Dang, Vy / Eva Lynders / Wulf Reiners (2023)
The Current Column, 21. August 2023

To secure that success, India sees a solution in re-orienting its G20 narrative towards the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as an existing common point of reference and framework for cooperation.

Canceled: Public talks on Tunisia

Bonn, 23. August 2023

Unfortunately, we have to inform you that the event on 23 August 2023 with lectures by Dina Bishara and Holger Albrecht, for which you had registered, cannot take place due to illness. We ask for apology! The German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) invites to a public lecture event focussing on Tunisia. Two distinguished…

For a more binding nature of commitments in the 2030 Agenda implementation

Waltenberg, Tabea / Leonie Droste (2023)
The Current Column, 28. August 2023

Even though the very existence of the 2030 Agenda as a joint steering instrument can certainly be seen as a success in view of the complex conflicts of interest at a multilateral level, the agenda needs to act as a framework throughout the world through legally binding norms and laws in order to accelerate its implementation.

Is Africa left behind in the global climate finance architecture: redefining climate vulnerability and revamping the climate finance landscape - a comprehensive review

Tamasiga, Phemelo / Malesela Molala / Malebogo Bakwena / Hugue Nkoutchou / Helen Onyeaka (2023)
External Publications

Third Virtual General Assembly Meeting (VGAM) of the African Academy Alumni Network

Online, 04. September 2023

Decent work and economic growth, SDG8, was the topic of the 3rd Virtual General Assembly Meeting (VGAM) of the African Academy Alumni Network, which now comprises members from the three cohorts. The VGAMs provides an exchange platform for the members of the network. The meetings have the purpose to give the alumni and the regional block…

Paving the way for the SDG Summit?

Wisskirchen, Alma / Axel Berger (2023)
The Current Column, 04. September 2023

“It is vital that the summits in New Delhi and New York generate political momentum and also result in concrete initiatives, as the progress made halfway through the 2030 Agenda timeline is disastrously slow.“

Job advertisment: Researcher (f/m/diverse) Science Futures

Research Programme “Transformation of Economic and Social Systems“ is looking for a Researcher (f/m/diverse)within the CRC, “Science Futures: Between ‘intensification’ and ’conservation’ discourses on African rural development”.

Cooperation for the Sake of Cooperation?

Potsdam, 08. September 2023

The current global dynamics have significant consequences on policy-making in and beyond the Arctic. To limit the effects of the ever more visible global climate crisis, however, multi-dimensional and multi-sided cooperation remain crucial. To better understand how legitimacies are constructed and used to intensify and to abandon…

Simultaneously Realising a Just Energy Transition and the Implications for Water-Energy-Food Nexus in South Africa

Online, 11. September 2023

WWF South Africa (WWF-SA), in partnership with the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), organised this workshop as part of an international research study titled "Implementing sustainable development goals in an incoherent world: aligning climate action and reduced inequalities." The South African study has been…

Financing sustainable development: insights from Ghana, Indonesia, Mexico, and Senegal

Barchiche, Damien / Elise Dufief / Niels Keijzer / Yvonne Lobos Alva / Georghe Marbuah (2023)
External Publications

Water crises – water opportunities promoting water cooperation in the Middle East

Houdret, Annabelle / Tobias von Lossow (2023)
External Publications

A decade of China-Pakistan development partnership: achievements and expectations

Ali, Murad (2023)
The Current Column, 19. September 2023

Since its launch in 2013, no other initiative has gained such global limelight as President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). There is hardly a policy think tank or academic institute across the globe that has not addressed the enterprise.

Navigating towards justice and sustainability? Syncretic encounters and stakeholder-sourced solutions in Arctic cruise tourism governance

Hansen-Magnusson, Hannes / Charlotte Gehrke (2025)
External Publications

How to streamline Sámi rights into Policy-Making in the European Union?

Nystø Keskitalo, Anja Márjá / Jacqueline Götze (2023)
External Publications

Researching sustainable land management in sub-Sahara Africa

Berlin, 20. September 2023

The workshop presented the programme "Sustainable Land Management in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)" funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the strategy of its platform Research for Sustainability (Forschung für Nachhaltigkeit, FONA). This programme will be active over the next 4 years and has chosen…

Debt relief by multilateral lenders: why, how and how much?

Zucker-Marques / Ulrich Volz / Kevin P. Gallagher (2023)
External Publications

Global Partnerships – Knowledge, Dialogue, and Action

Bonn, 25. September 2023

Six years after the last MGG Global Network Conference (GNC), the MGG Network gathered again to reconnect, exchange and move from knowledge to action in cooperating for sustainability transformations at all levels. From 25 to 28 September 2023, the conference "Global Partnerships: Knowledge, Dialogue, and Action" brought together in Bonn…

Germany and the EU woo rising powers

Lynders, Eva / Wulf Reiners / Johanna Vogel (2023)
The Current Column, 25. September 2023

Global cooperation must serve more than a narrow understanding of self-interest. Transnational knowledge networks are indispensable for shaping a fair and functional partnership of mutual benefit.