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Famine has been declared in Gaza City but the international system still fails to act, according to IDS researcher Philip Proudfoot.
The UN Food Systems Summit stocktake four years on from the original (UNFSS+4) was a sombre affair at times, reflecting on ...
This Research Briefing introduces the concept of opportunity storylines to explore the impacts of plausible climate futures and identify which social protection systems could be used to reduce hunger ...
The conference is the culmination of a five-year international research programme, BASIC (Better Assistance in Crises) ...
This Policy Briefing synthesises emerging lessons from research conducted by the Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research programme, predominantly in the northeastern region of the country (which ...
Dr Rosalind Willi recently passed her viva voce, with no corrections. The focus of her thesis was the wellbeing of Syrian Armenian children in situations of displacement and return. In this blog she ...
Examining the implementation of VAT on cross-border digital transactions in Senegal, focused on transactions involving digital B2C services.
In response to the war, the Lebanese Ministry of Environment converted public buildings into shelters, while the Ministry of Social Affairs distributed emergency cash aid through the NPTP/ESSN program ...
Our Masvingo province A1 sites – Wondedzo and Sanangwe near Masvingo town and Clare and Lonely A near Chatsworth in Gutu – are classic dryland maize growing areas. In good years, many tonnes of ...
There are institutional trade-offs facing negotiators of Protocol 1 under the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation.
This K4DD Briefing Note provides an overview of where land use and climate change programming, which focuses on governance ...
The paper discusses the growing interest in using social protection to address climate-related vulnerabilities and strengthen resilience, particularly in conflict-affected settings.