ISDC Director Tilman Brück is presenting preliminary results from a joint project with the International Trade Centre (ITC) at a joint HiCN-UNU WIDER-NEPS Workshop titled ‘War and Reconstruction in Ukraine’ in Helsinki on 8 May, 2023. The workshop and subsequent policy panel will link stakeholders across research and policy communities to build up combined capacities. […]
More than 10 years after the publication of the State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA): Women in agriculture report, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has published a new report: The status of women in agrifood systems. The 2010/2011 SOFA report went into detail describing the costs of gender inequalities for […]
ISDC Director Tilman Brück‘s recent article (with Mekdim Regassa from the Leibniz Institute for Vegetable and Ornamental Crops) in Food Security is now also available in print. The article surveys efforts that track food security in Africa using phone surveys during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors recommend that the scientific community focuses on countries (and […]
Building on our FAO Impact Evaluation in Syria, Ghassan shared insights on how we developed unique approaches to account for the ongoing crisis in our study. The session took place on the 23rd of February, 2023 and will also featured contributions from Jeannie Annan (International Rescue Committee), Marcella Vigneri (London School of Hygiene and Tropical […]
Forced displacement and its impact on lives and livelihoods are a common theme in ISDC’s research. According to UNHCR estimations, more than 100 million people were forcibly displaced as of May 2022. Our work contributes to understanding the myriad of consequences displacement has for displaced and host communities, including on how (groups of) people live […]
Difficult climate conditions can create or exacerbate fragility – how can we better understand this in vulnerable populations? To mark Earth Day 2022, we are sharing key findings about climate change, climate emergencies, and food security from around the world. • Climate change is associated with extreme weather events such as excessive cold, rainfall, & […]
The order of magnitude of the economic burden of war is comparable to that of other ‘global public bads’, such as climate change, land degradation, alcohol consumption or malaria. Figure 1. Distribution and structure of the burden of violent conflict in 2014 Disaggregation of the relative burden of conflict per country worldwide. In 2014, the […]
Displacement trends show that developing countries host most of the world’s refugees and are dealing with displacement that lasts longer today than in the past. UNHCR sees an opportunity to improve outcomes for both refugees and host communities by combining humanitarian and development strategies. In collaboration with Julian Lehmann and Julia Steets of GPPi, our […]
SEEDS for Recovery evaluates the long-term impact of a complex agricultural intervention conducted by FAO in acutely conflict-affected Syria. The project, funded under the CEDIL– Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning initiative, is a collaboration between ISDC and the American University of Beirut. The 3-year duration (2020-2023) project aims at developing and testing innovative methods for evaluation of FAO’s agricultural […]
