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The Center for Development Research (ZEF) is an interdisciplinary research institute with a focus on development issues. ZEF runs research projects in Asia, Africa and Latin America. In their blogs our researchers report about their work such as projects, conferences, scientific publications, field research, talks and other milestones. Authors express their own opinions, and ideas …
by Marwa Shumo
一期一会 An awesome Japanese idiom that translates to “One life, one encounter.” We sometimes tend to forget that every encounter is a once-in-a-lifetime encounter — this really underscores how many first-and-only-time things happen in the day-to-day and it also explains the way I felt while gazing at the scramble. Interested in knowing more about the …
by Marwa Shumo
In Africa, livestock production currently accounts for about 30% of the gross value of agricultural production. However, production is struggling to keep up with the demands of expanding human populations, the rise in urbanization and the associated shifts in diet habits. High costs of feed prevent the livestock sector from thriving and meeting the rising …
by Jochen Duerr
ProciNut researcher Sarah Nischalke reported in her last research and travel blog posts about the culture of eating and producing insects in Myanmar and Thailand. She observed that whereas in Thailand edible insects are a large-scale industry, in Myanmar its potential has to be exploited fully yet (read also here). In this blog, ProciNut member …
Short info: Anna Brückner conducts her doctoral research within the NRW Forschungskolleg research group on “One Health and Urban Transformation – identifying risks and developing sustainable solutions” (see website). The topic of her research is “Blue health for all?” and is investigating urban blue spaces as potentially therapeutic landscapes for elderly people in deprived communities. …
by zefblog
Yesterday somebody told me on the bus that he was uncertain whether climate change was really that bad; he under the impression that scientist had not even succeeded in agreeing to the relevant numbers as yet. Fair enough! Instead of hiding behind model simulations and endless case studies we, the scientists need to do a better job getting the message across
Thinking on the outcomes of their Elevator pitch on Sorority, Salgado states: “Sorority has been excluded from the developing vocabularies!
by Marwa Shumo
Our open access peer-reviewed article entitled “Influence of Temperature on Selected Life-History Traits of Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) Reared on Two Common Urban Organic Waste Streams in Kenya” was published in Animals Special Issue Insects: Alternative Protein Source for Animal Feed. Here is a simple summary of the article: Rapid population growth and urbanization, …
A team of eight dedicated researchers from the ZEF-led project ‘Processing of Edible Insects for Improved Nutrition’ (ProciNut) have roamed around Myanmar and Thailand in December 2018 and January 2019 to find edible insects, insect eaters and mini farmers. Myanmar was the country of which we heard that people enjoyed a portion of crickets along …
A team of eight dedicated researchers from the ZEF-led project ‘Processing of Edible Insects for Improved Nutrition’ (ProciNut) have roamed around Myanmar and Thailand in December 2018 and January 2019 to find edible insects, insect eaters and mini farmers. Myanmar was the country of which we heard that people enjoyed a portion of crickets along …