This DIIS Working Paper provides a broad overview of the Great Green Wall initiative to draw out lessons learnt from the first half of the programme. Overall, the authors find it unrealistic for the Great Green Wall to significantly alter root causes of migration and conflict in the Sahel region...

Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have set targets for non-hydro renewable energy but lag in implementation. The dominant approaches to analysing energy transitions have largely been developed based on European experience and provide a limited understanding of such developments in African...

Biodiversity conservation is critical to address the loss of species and ecosystems, and a key component in Nature-based Solutions to development and climate change challenges. Denmark's strategy for development cooperation aims to strengthen biodiversity conservation and emphasises the...

Climate change is widely expected to produce new and/or intensified mobility patterns, including migration and displacement. However, research on the relationship between climate change and human mobility is limited, especially regarding the roles of governance and interventions in shaping...

This working paper presents the outputs of the Preparatory Study for the 2019 Climate Evaluation, commissioned by the Evaluation Department (EVAL) of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.The Preparatory Study provides information on Danish support to climate change adaptation in developing...

This paper describes a questionnaire survey conducted as part of the Agricultural Investors as Development Actors (henceforward AIDA) research programme to establish the development outcomes of selected foreign agricultural investments for people living in the vicinity of such investments in six...

This working paper presents the outputs of the Preparatory Study for the 2019 Climate Evaluation, commissioned by the Evaluation Department (EVAL) of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.The Preparatory Study provides information on Danish support to climate change adaptation in developing...

This paper describes a questionnaire survey conducted as part of the Agricultural Investors as Development Actors (henceforward AIDA) research programme to establish the development outcomes of selected foreign agricultural investments for people living in the vicinity of such investments in six...

Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have set targets for non-hydro renewable energy but lag in implementation. The dominant approaches to analysing energy transitions have largely been developed based on European experience and provide a limited understanding of such developments in African...

Biodiversity conservation is critical to address the loss of species and ecosystems, and a key component in Nature-based Solutions to development and climate change challenges. Denmark's strategy for development cooperation aims to strengthen biodiversity conservation and emphasises the...