In this policy brief, the authors are setting the frame to think about the pandemicâs impacts on food security by summarising evidence on the hypothesised causal links.
The Covid-19 crisis has brought social protection to the forefront as a crisis response tool. It has also exposed social protection gaps and limitations. Some of the population groups most adversely affected by the crisis â women, informal workers, urban dwellers, refugees – are also those excluded from or underserved by social protection.
The adoption of the EUâs Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF) 2021-2027 will bring profound changes to the set-up of the EUâs instruments for crisis prevention, conflict management and peacebuilding in fragile and conflict-affected countries, which aim to improve the EUâs ability to engage in these contexts. However, reforming the EUâs financial instruments alone is not sufficient to address key underlying challenges. What is needed is an overarching strategic framework that puts policy coherence for sustainable peace at the centre of EU crisis prevention, conflict management and peacebuilding.Â
COVID19 recovery and the mitigation of future ecological and social crises will be important topics in the super year 2021. What international negotiations will be crucial?
2020 was dominated by a collective global crisis on an unprecedented scale, the impact of which was felt differently around the globe and in parts of society. And the Covid-19 pandemic will continue to cast its shadow this year. The fight against Covid-19 and the recovery in the economy and society are coming at the same time as several major events in international environmental and climate policy.
âWhat happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic. It affects us all.â
The EU intends to play a pioneering role in the future, armed with a âclear and coherent Arctic policyâ. If this is to succeed, the EU will need to take the lessons learned from the pandemic into account because COVID-19 has exacerbated existing inequalities and challenges in the region, particularly in terms of infrastructure and healthcare.
