Home » Research » Further Website Specials Further website specials Further Website Specials With its website specials, the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) highlights its expertise relating to current topics of the international agenda: The specials provide access to aggregated information on publications, events, projects and contact persons at IDOS. In short videos, research staff or guests take a stand on these topics and place them in the…
Home » Press » Media Coverage » 2012 Archive 2012 Jan. Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sep . Oct. Nov. Dec. December A Hand Up Subsidies have long served as a safety net for needy Egyptians, but they are also inefficient, wasteful and expensive. Now the government is working to come up with a better social welfare system, one that encourages the poor to participate in Egypt’s economic future. Markus Loewe , senior economist at German Development Institute/ Deutsches…
Anna-Katharina Hornidge is Development and Knowledge Sociologist und Director of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Home » Press » Press Releases » Every day is Copenhagen Every day is Copenhagen Press Release of 4 December 2009 A breakthrough in international climate policy is still possible, argue Claus Leggewie, Director of the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI) and Dirk Messner , Director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) at euozine.com . Hopes for an internationally binding climate agreement were rudely dampened at…
Special "Water Governance": Researchers at IDOS analyse water governance problems to understand conditions for equitable, ecologically sustainable water use, access, and control.
Researchers at IDOS analyse insurance and transfer systems as well as traditional and informal forms of social security and mechanisms to support small farmers.
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?
Researchers at the IDOS are investigating instruments of ecological structural policy and global regulatory frameworks that support corresponding transformation processes.