Project Background Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, and Niger are highly vulnerable to drought, a challenge that is recently intensifying due to climate change. Combined with other shocks such as political instability, security threats, and insurgent activities, these countries face a complex interplay of crises that severely impact lives and livelihoods. Anticipatory Action approaches are aimed […]
Project Background Sudan is facing a severe humanitarian crisis as ongoing violent conflict has led to widespread food insecurity, limited access to essential services, and displacement. The situation is especially serious in Darfur, where half the population depended on humanitarian aid even before the war. The joint programme by WFP and UNICEF aims to provide […]
Project Background Syria is facing multiple overlapping crises, including the prolonged effects of war, recurrent droughts, soaring inflation and political instability. These challenges have severely disrupted agricultural production and local livelihoods, leaving many farming communities struggling to recover. In response, ILRS is implementing targeted agricultural interventions aimed at strengthening local resilience and enhancing farmers’ capacity […]
To enhance the understanding of how food systems respond to shocks and to inform public policy that can strengthen their capacity to manage such crises, this project aims to develop an analytical framework specifically tailored to measure food system resilience in fragile situations, using Sudan as a case study.
Project Background Armed conflict reverses human development, yet its full impact remains poorly understood due to fragmented research across disciplines. This multidisciplinary project integrates economics, epidemiology, political science, and conflict studies to assess conflict’s effects on economies, health, and political institutions, using a risk-analysis framework to model hazard, exposure, and vulnerability while expanding early-warning systems […]
