Publications

This special issue of Development Policy Review reflects on European Union (EU) efforts to build a more effective global development policy amid a rapidly changing international context. As 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals have made clear, global development challenges require collective action if they are to be resolved. Contributions to the special issue explore the ways in which the EU approaches collective action challenges in different development cooperation frameworks and policy settings. Themes explored include strategies for overcoming collective action problems, the impacts of these interactions on EU and member state aid policies, coherence between development and other policy fields, relations between European and other development actors, and the reception of the EU's efforts in developing countries.

• The article in Development Policy Review

• Bodenstein, T., J. Faust and M. Furness (2027) European Union Development Policy: Collective Action in Times of Global Transformation and Domestic Crisis. In: Development Policy Review, Vol. 35, Issue 4, 441-453.

Oil palm has become the most important oil crop throughout the world. The growing palm oil production was mainly based on the expansion of cultivated area into forest areas, causing serious environmental and social concerns. Increasing yields on existing plantations is a potential pathway to reduce the undesired ecological impacts of oil palm agriculture while enhancing its social benefits. Although oil palm production is still dominated by large private estates, smallholder farmers are increasingly engaging in its cultivation. Based on crop modeling analysis and farm household survey data from Sumatra, Indonesia, this paper quantifies smallholder yield gaps relative to exploitable yield levels and analyses smallholders' production constraints. 

• The article in Agricultural Systems

• Euler, M., M.P. Hoffmann, Z. Fathoni and S. Schwarze (2016) Exploring Yield Gaps in Smallholder Oil Palm Production Systems in Eastern Sumatra, Indonesia. In: Agricultural Systems, Vol. 146, 111-119.

Unternehmen, die sich in Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern engagieren möchten, können Unterstützung über das develoPPP.de-Programm des Bundesentwicklungsministeriums beantragen. Das DEval hat analysiert, ob und wie die Antragstellung, Bewilligung und Durchführung von Projekten durch länderspezifische Faktoren beeinflusst werden.

• Lücking, K. und H. Roggemann (2016), Das develoPPP.de-Programm. Eine Portfolioanalyse, Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval), Bonn.

• S. Leiderer, Parks, B. and Masaki, T. (2016), German Aid from a Partner Country Perspective. DEval Policy Brief 5/2016, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.

• Munir, K. and I. Worm (2016), Health Systems Strengthening in German Development Cooperation, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.

• Leppert, G. und K. Munir (2016), Gesundheitssystemstärkung in der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Container-Konzept oder integrierte Strategie? DEval Policy Brief 3/2016, Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval), Bonn.