There are a multitude of challenges confronting resource-limited, rapidly growing cities that revolve around food-water-energy (FWE) resource issues, and there are a multitude of potential solutions. But such solutions often address one or just a few challenges without regard to their impacts on the entire FWE system. This Working Paper discusses a process in integrating local knowledge on FWE [...]

Developing countries (DCs) encounter the COVID-19 pandemic under distinctly different preconditions than high-income countries. Three issues arise: i) What are the prospects of DCs to stop further waves of the COVID-19 disease? ii) Why has the COVID-19 pandemic hit the economy of DCs so hard? iii) How has poverty and human tragedy re-emerged in DCs in the course of the COVID-19 crisis and will it [...]

Commodity markets have reacted to the COVID-19 crisis with drastic price movements and changes in production and demand. As the vast majority of countries in the Global South are persistently dependent on commodities, these countries face the serious risk that the simultaneous crises in health, financial and commodity sectors mutually reinforce each other. This article outlines the current [...]

Home Forschung & Beratung Forschung & Beratung Die Forschungsaktivitäten der ÖFSE umfassen die Erstellung von Studien, Analysen und Grundlagenpapieren , sowie Politik- und Strategieberatung öffentliche und private Akteur*innen der österreichischen und internationalen Entwicklungspolitik und -zusammenarbeit . Die Gestaltung von diskursiven Reflexions- und Lernprozessen zu aktuellen Themen der [...]

Home Forschung & Beratung Partizipative Methoden der Entwicklungsforschung Gestaltung/Moderation partizipativer Prozesse Gestaltung/Moderation partizipativer Prozesse The Nexus Game and its potential application in stakeholder participation processes. Workshop, June 2019 Die Lösung komplexer gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen erfordert die Zusammenarbeit und die konstruktive Auseinandersetzung [...]

Digitalization technologies, such as automation, robotization, artificial intelligence and Big Data are increasingly shaping economic processes. In public discourse, extreme outlooks are widespread. Either digital technologies will provide the solution to most contemporary problems, or dystopian scenarios claim that digital technologies make human labor redundant for production processes, [...]