Tilman Brück

Maybe that part of North America should declare independence from the overbearing ruler? It worked once before.

Looking forward to the great speakers on #Syria and #VAWG! Join us!
@thesvri.bsky.social

Call for Papers: Fragile Lives 2025 HiCN Workshop – HiCN 30 September - 1 October 2025 Berlin, Germany Every year, Fragile Lives convenes international experts from academia, policy, and practice on the use of rigorou

Please see the CfP & submission details at hicn.org/call-for-papers-fragile-lives-2025-hicn-workshop.
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Call for Papers: Fragile Lives 2025 HiCN Workshop – HiCN 30 September - 1 October 2025 Berlin, Germany Every year, Fragile Lives convenes international experts from academia, policy, and practice on the use of rigorou

Our keynote speakers will be Patricia Justino @apvjustino.bsky.social, Deputy Director of the United Nations World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki, Finland, and Amber Peterman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Call for Papers: Fragile Lives 2025 HiCN Workshop – HiCN 30 September - 1 October 2025 Berlin, Germany Every year, Fragile Lives convenes international experts from academia, policy, and practice on the use of rigorou

We especially welcome micro-level, quantitative papers that incorporate a gender lens, notably within poly-crisis contexts.
The deadline for the submission of papers or entire sessions is 6 April 2025.
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Call for Papers: Fragile Lives 2025 HiCN Workshop – HiCN 30 September - 1 October 2025 Berlin, Germany Every year, Fragile Lives convenes international experts from academia, policy, and practice on the use of rigorou

We invite submissions that analyse causes, dynamics and consequences of crises globally, emphasising papers covering livelihoods, displacement, poverty, inequality, peacebuilding, and policy impacts.
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Call for Papers: Fragile Lives 2025 HiCN Workshop – HiCN 30 September - 1 October 2025 Berlin, Germany Every year, Fragile Lives convenes international experts from academia, policy, and practice on the use of rigorou

The focus of this year’s Fragile Lives is ‘Gender, Institutions, and Fragility’, discussing how gender and institutions shape fragility, insecurity, and emergency.
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Call for Papers: Fragile Lives 2025 HiCN Workshop – HiCN 30 September - 1 October 2025 Berlin, Germany Every year, Fragile Lives convenes international experts from academia, policy, and practice on the use of rigorou

📣The Call for Papers and Sessions of the 2nd international expert conference Fragile Lives on 30 September and 1 October 2025 at Humboldt-University of Berlin in Germany is about to close. 1/6
#callforpapers #Berlin #HiCN #FragileLives @isdcberlin.bsky.social

Call for Papers: Fragile Lives 2025 HiCN Workshop – ISDC 30 September - 1 October 2025 Berlin, Germany Every year, Fragile Lives convenes international experts from academia, policy, and practice on the use of rigorou

Call for Papers: Fragile Lives 2025 HiCN Workshop

📆30 September – 1 October 2025
Fragile Lives 2025 & the 21st HiCN Annual Workshop will review the role of gender & institutions in the formation, functioning & impacts of fragility, insecurity, conflict & emergency.

RIP NATO

Remembering the liberation of Auschwitz 80 years ago. Never again - I hope.

„Transforming food systems is necessary, possible and hugely beneficial, but also not easy“ argues Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi from the FSEC at the #GFFA25 in Berlin just now.
It is so encouraging that this can be done - however gloomy current trends are.
#foodsystems #diet #agriculture #food

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It is based on a trip to Southern Madagascar with Welthungerhilfe, where drought is chronic. I was delighted to have contributed to this podcast. It is important to talk about hunger, to bust some myths and to learn what can be done. Zero hunger is possible!

(116) Hunger in der Welt - eine Naturgewalt? Seit Jahrzehnten sieht die Welt Bilder von hungernden Menschen in den Medien - trotzdem verändert sich nichts. Warum?

In this German-language podcast on NDR, Sarah Emminghaus discusses why so many people in the world are chronically food insecure, how hunger shapes people's lives and what can be done about it.
#hunger #foodsecurity #SDG2
www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...

Great service - many thanks! Would be honoured to be included in the next version. 🤓

From The Economist, pertinent car buying advice for #Berlin tonight:

Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President, Is Dead at 100 Rising from Georgia farmland to the White House, he oversaw the historic Camp David peace accords, but his one-term presidency was waylaid by troubles at home and abroad.

Jimmy Carter was a tireless advocate for human rights, social development and international peace. He demonstrated the importance and interrelations between these challenges and made our world better, step by step. He genuinely deserves to rest in peace.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/u...

How did #COVID-lockdowns influence coping strategies in #Africa?

A new article in the Journal of African Economies addresses the knowledge gap of how lockdown severity impacts economic behavior in low- and middle-income countries.

At last, good riddance.

#Africa #Covid #lockdown #coping #Uganda #Mozambique #SierraLeone #Tanzania
@isdcberlin.bsky.social
@igzleibniz.bsky.social
@humboldtuni.bsky.social

Taken together, our findings underscore the importance of providing adequate social safety nets for poor households to deal with income shocks under protracted lockdowns since households can only cope with short lockdowns without employing harmful adaptation mechanisms.
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Under longer lockdowns, however, households change their response and spend their savings and sell their assets. The effects are particularly pronounced for the two poorest quintiles of households.
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We find that, immediately after the introduction of (stricter) lockdown policies, the share of households who spend savings or sell assets declines. Instead, households reduce expenditure on non-food essential items, such as education and clothing.
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Using ‘Life with Corona Africa’, a large-scale dataset collected through continuous phone interviews over a full year in 2021, we apply a linear probability model with country and month fixed effects to test the combined effect of the duration and intensity of lockdown policies.
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Specifically, we examine how variations in intensity and duration of lockdown policies affect the use of savings, selling assets and reducing essential non-food expenditure in four African countries: Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Uganda.
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Evidence on how the severity of lockdown policies impacts the economic behaviour of households in low-income countries over time remains absent.
To close this knowledge gap, we study the immediate and protracted effects of COVID-19 lockdowns on households' economic coping strategies.
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Governments worldwide responded to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic with various lockdown measures. Restrictions curb the spread of a virus but also cause serious economic challenges.
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