Households in Conflict Network

Unraveling Food Security, Drought and Conflict Exposure of Somali Households

Astrid Sneyers

This paper aims at disentangling the mutual link between conflict, drought and food security in Somalia. The analysis is conducted using various indicators for food […]

Horticulture Helps: How Home Garden Interventions Alleviate Food Insecurity in Polycrises

Dorothee Weiffen, Ghassan Baliki, Tilman Brück, Mariami Marsagishvili

Natural disasters, violent conflict and other adverse shocks severely disrupt food systems, causing or exacerbating food insecurity among many communities worldwide. This study examines the […]

Jobs and livelihoods programming for economic and social stability in fragile places: Evidence from Tunisia and Somalia

Neil Ferguson, Tatiana Orozco García

An increasing proportion of the world’s poor live in fragile states, and efforts to build economic and social stability increasingly focus on those settings. Fragility […]

Effect of exposure to conflicts and childhood mortality: Analyses of pooled cross-sectional data from 105 surveys from 52 countries

Srinivas Goli, Nandeen Bhattacharyya, Shalem Balla, Harchand Ram

This study analyses the adverse impact of different types of conflicts on child mortality and its mechanisms across a large group of countries. Our analysis […]

Climate, conflict, and food Security: A systematic review of household-level evidence (2020–2025)

Tilman Brück, Mahlet Degefu Awoke

Climate and conflict crises increasingly occur together, creating compounded risks for household food security. This review synthesizes evidence from 37 quantitative studies published 2020–2025 on […]

Collective Shocks and Social Preferences: A Global, Subnational Analysis

James Igoe Walsh, Alexander Kustov, Ivan Flores Martinez

While some studies of conflicts, natural disasters, and economic setbacks find these negative collective shocks make people more prosocial, others find they reduce cooperation. These […]