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Evidence for human development, food security, and peace in poly-crises

Fragile Lives is a new annual conference on the use of rigorous, scientific evidence for improving livelihoods, food security and peace around the world, held in Berlin, Germany. This first edition of Fragile Lives will focus on how poly-crises shape individuals, institutions, and interventions.

1-2 October 2024 // HU Berlin Unter den Linden 6, Senatssaal

Across three themes, we will examine the drivers, dynamics, and impacts of poly-crises, spanning violent conflict, humanitarian emergencies, and the climate crisis:

1. Achieving Zero Hunger - How do we best increase food security in poly-crises?
2. Lives and Livelihoods - How do people respond to and cope with poly-crises around the world?
3. Peace and Prosperity - How can rigorous evidence inform the design of effective peacebuilding measures?

Fragile Lives 2024 will:
1. Present rigorous analyses of questions of significant policy interest in the compounding challenges poly-crises;
2. Discuss how causal evidence can be used to develop new policy to improve the lives and livelihoods of people affected by such shocks and poly-crises;
3. Offer novel policy recommendations for how to protect and support vulnerable households and institutions; and
4. Connect academia and practice across disciplines, institutions, sectors, and countries to facilitate learning on how to deal with our increasingly uncertain and challenging world.

Conference programme

The preliminary programme can be found here (PDF Fragile Lives Overview).

Further information

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Conference Website: https://zerohunger.de/fragile-lives/
Registration Site: https://hi.converia.de/frontend/index.php?sub=121

 

Fragile Lives 2024 is organized jointly by the Zero Hunger Lab of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with IRI THESys and Leibniz Institute of Vegetables and Ornamental Crops (IGZ).