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?
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.
Special TREND Analytics: TREND analytics is an unique online tool offering its users a birds’ eye perspective of 300 environmental provisions in 630 preferential trade agreements that have been signed since 1945. At the same time political decision makers, researchers or civil society actors are enabled to zoom into the great diversity of this environmental provisions.
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.
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.
Regine Mehl is Political Scientist and Former Researcher of the Research Programme "Inter- and transnational cooperation".
Special "Sustainable Urban Development": More than half of the World’s population already lives in urban areas; in 2050 it will be two third. Most of the growth will happen in emerging and developing countries, where the number of city-dwellers who live informally is still increasing.
Press Release of 30 August 2022: In a joint appointment procedure between the University of Bonn and the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Clara Brandi was appointed as Professor of International Economics / Development Economics at the University of Bonn.
The T20 Africa Standing Group (T20 ASG) works on topics related to economic, social and political change in Africa and the global economy. The network will generate cross-regional knowledge production and evidence-based policy recommendations on cooperation between the G20 and Africa.
Special “SDSN”: The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) pools expertise from science, civil society and the business community to tackle global challenges with innovative and applicable solutions for sustainable development. IDOS shares in the working group on Low-Carbon Energy and Sustainable Industry in particular, which sketches strategies for a low-carbon economy and its political feasibility.