Policy briefs

Venezuela Agriculture and Food: Resilience or Total Collapse of Food Security Under Repeated Crises?

Venezuela has hurtled from crisis to crisis since the 1980s oil glut. Time and again, successive governments, whether Democratic or Bolivarian...

Tillabéri Region, Niger: Concerning Cycle of Atrocities

Tillabéri region of Niger is witnessing unprecedented level of ethnic-based violence. The January 2 massacre caught the national and international...

Les armes non-létales : vers la guerre propre ?

Depuis les années 1960s, la doctrine stratégique assiste à la montée en puissance progressive des armes dites « non-létales », d’abord comme concept...

Non-Lethal Weapons: Towards Clean War?

Starting in the nineteen sixties, strategic doctrine gradually saw the advent of so-called "non-lethal" weapons, first as a concept, then...

Autonomisation économique de la femme marocaine au-delà du mode compassionnel

La crise sanitaire de la Covid-19 a mis en exergue les limites de la société-monde. En effet, sans la femme on ne peut faire face aux défis du...

Economic empowerment of Moroccan women beyond the drive for compassion

The Covid-19 health crisis exposed the limitations of our world-society. As a matter of fact, millennium challenges are impossible to face without...

The Challenge of the Youth Bulge in Africa and the Middle East: Migration and The Brain Drain

This Policy Brief was drafted within a partnership with NATO Southern Hub (NSD-S Hub) and was originally published on NSD-S Hub website:

Brazil Agriculture—Response and resilience of food security under dual shocks in 2020: Oil price collapse and the COVID-19 pandemic

Brazil, an oil-exporting nation, was still struggling to recover from the depression which started around 2014/15 when it was hit by a quick...

Genetically Modified Organisms: Promising or Problematic for Food Security? A Review of Major Developments in Selected Developing Countries - Part II

Selected experiences with GMOs in industrialized and developing countries show that the promise of bioengineering for strengthening food security...

African Cities in Times of COVID-19: Resilience against all Odds

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed new vulnerabilities in social, infrastructure, and governance systems. In the first months of the pandemic, there...

The African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA): Legal Overview

Regional integration in Africa is seen as a priority by many of the continent’s policymakers and economic stakeholders. With all Africa now signed up...

La Zone de libre-échange continentale africaine (ZLECAF) : regard juridique

L'intégration régionale en Afrique est considérée comme une priorité par de nombreux responsables politiques et acteurs économiques du continent...

Genetically Modified Organisms: Promising or Problematic for Food Security? A Review of Major Developments in Selected Industrialized Countries - Part I

Building on decades of biochemistry research, bioengineers have successfully transferred genes across species to produce living organisms (plants and...

Organismes génétiquement modifiés : Prometteurs ou problématiques pour la sécurité alimentaire ? Revue des principaux développements dans quelques pays industrialisés

S'appuyant sur des décennies de recherche en biochimie, les bio-ingénieurs ont réussi à transférer des gènes d’une espèce à l’autre pour...