The Kosmos Workshop “Emergency Agriculture and Food Security” will bring together leading Berlin-based, German and international researchers working on various related aspects of this emerging field.

They will pursue three related objectives:

• To review recent findings and scientific progress (the “state of the art”);
• To identify and prioritize novel research questions (or “knowledge gaps”); and
• To plan future research collaborations and joint proposals.

These objectives will be attained by reviewing a set of related research questions with short presentations and subsequent plenary discussions.

The overall research themes include:

• Forms and representations of emergencies and fragile environments;
• Drivers of food insecurity in emergencies and in fragile environments;
• Agricultural practices in emergencies;
• Consequences of food insecurity in emergencies and in fragile environments, especially at the individual level;
• The role and impact of local and global policy actors for emergency agriculture and food security;
• New and emerging data sources and indicators; and
• Methods and techniques.