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A diagnostic approach improves Integrated Water Resource Management

Mit vielfältigen Aktivitäten, leistet das DIE einen Beitrag zu Forschung und Politikberatung über Integriertes Wasserressourcen-Management.

Participants of the African-German Leadership Academy 2021

Participants of the African-German Leadership Academy 2021 is an innovative training and dialogue programme bringing together young professionals from Germany and its reform partner countries.

Why green industrial policy should be a priority area of development cooperation

Altenburg, Tilman (2021)
The Current Column, 01. July 2021

The European Union has put down a marker with its Green Deal, recognising in the need to ecologically restructure the world’s economies an opportunity to modernise the European economy and make it more competitive.

Weather index insurance: promises and challenges of promoting social and ecological resilience to climate change

Yu, Lu / Mariya Aleksandrova (2021)
Briefing Paper 14/2021

This Briefing Paper stresses the importance of enhancing knowledge on social and ecological effects of weather index microinsurance, and the need to develop a diverse set of climate risk management strategies for the poor including social protection mechanisms.

Shaping sustainable supply chains

An immense share of global value creation takes place in supply chains. DIE contributes to research and policy advice on supply chains.

Uzbekistan – a region of world society? Variants of differentiation in agricultural resources governance

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Kristof van Assche / Anastasiya Shtaltovna (2018)
External Publications

Need for improved governance of marine protected areas

Lehmann, Ina (2021)
The Current Column, 07. June 2021

In order to strengthen the knowledge base for ocean protection, the United Nations launched the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development on June 1. This knowledge should inter alia inform existing international frameworks for protecting the ocean.

Revisiting the politics of land recovery among white commercial farmers in Zimbabwe: implications for transitional justice

Batisai, Kezia / George T. Mudimu (2021)
External Publications

Rethinking Land in the Anthropocene

Online, 27. May 2021

The latest WBGU (German Advisory Council on Global Change) flagship report diagnoses a "trilemma" of global land use, consisting of diverse demands made on land for the purposes of climate-change mitigation, food security and the conservation of biological diversity. The Council proposes five governance strategies to address this…

Modeling the potential impacts of climate change and adaptation strategies on groundnut production in India

Kadiyala, M.D.M. / Swamikannu Nedumaran / Jyosthnaa Padmanabhan / Murali Krishna Gumma / Sridhar Gummadi / Srinivas Reddy Srigirid / Richard Robertson / Anthony Whitbread (2021)
External Publications

Big agricultural investors - curse or blessing

Nolte, Kerstin / Michael Brüntrup / Raoul Herrmann (2021)
External Publications

Approaches for supporting smallholders in the Global South: contentious issues, experiences, syntheses

Rauch, Theo / Michael Brüntrup (2021)
Briefing Paper 1/2021

The support of smallholder farmers is indispensable for reaching many SDGs in the Global South. HOW to achieve that is subject to decade-old debates. The text sketches major positions, reflects them in light of smallholder realities, and tries a synthesis.

Has the ‘Unsocial’ Social Contract perished in the Middle East?

El-Haddad, Amirah (2021)
The Current Column, 25. January 2021

Ten years into the Arab Spring, economic changes have been uneven. A transformation which distances the state from regime cronies, creating benefits for both informal workers and the unemployed is required.

Land, climate, energy, agriculture and development in the Sahel: synthesis paper of case studies under the Sudano-Sahelian initiative for regional development, jobs, and food security

Mirzabaev, Alisher / Tekalign Gutu Sakketa / Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla et al. (2021)
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Mind the Gap? Sketching the relevance of the 2030 Agenda for the Green Deal and other key EU policies in the context of the COVID-19 crisis

Hackenesch, Christine / Maximilian Högl / Julian Bergmann / Janina, Sturm / Damien Barchiche / Adolf Kloke-Lesch (2021)
External Publications

From politics to business: how a state-led fund is investing in Africa? The case of the China-Africa

Li, Hang (2020)
External Publications

Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes

Grass, Ingo / Christoph Kubitza / [...] / Jonas Hein / Nina Hennings et al. (2020)
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Inclusive and sustainable agriculture in Costa Rica - a quality label to promote solidarity-based trade

Stamm, Andreas (2020)
External Publications

2020 Europe Sustainable Development Report

Online, 08. December 2020

Die COVID-19-Pandemie und die sozio-ökonomischen Auswirkungen stellen die Europäische Union und die internationale Kooperation vor eine große Herausforderung für die Erreichung der Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) , das Pariser Klimaabkommen und den Europäischen Green Deal . Gleichzeitig sind die SDGs wichtiger denn je, da sie einen…

Overcoming coordination gaps between water, energy and agriculture: future paths to water protection in Weser-Ems

Meergans, Franziska / Christina Aue / Christian Knieper / Sascha Kochendörfer / Andrea Lenschow / Claudia Pahl-Wostl (2020)
Briefing Paper 25/2020

Intensive agriculture is characteristic for the region of Weser-Ems and the major source of nitrate pollution in groundwater. The analysis of coordination and cooperation shows that incoherent policies in the water, (bio)energy and agricultural sector have exacerbated the problem situation at hand.