Dorothee Weiffen

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 […]

Cash and Cohesion in Crisis: On the Impacts of Anticipatory Cash Transfers in IDP Camps in South Sudan during Floods

Dorothee Weiffen, Ghassan Baliki, Tilman Brück, Jan Elfes

Households living in humanitarian settings face extreme vulnerability to adverse shocks. Cash transfers can reduce this vulnerability and enhance household welfare. However, the potential of […]

How to conduct impact evaluations in humanitarian and conflict settings

Aysegül Kayaoglu, Ghassan Baliki, Dorothee Weiffen, Tilman Brück, Melodie Al Daccache

Methodological, ethical and practical challenges make it difficult to use experimental and rigorous quasi-experimental approaches to conduct impact evaluations in humanitarian emergencies and conflict settings […]

Aid, Conflict and Gender: Heterogeneous Impacts of Agricultural Asset Transfers during the Syrian Civil War

Dorothee Weiffen, Ghassan Baliki, Tilman Brück

Conflict is a significant driver of global food insecurity, and agricultural assistance is a key policy tool to improve food security in such settings. However, […]