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ZEF’s researchers report about their work

ZEF’s researchers report about their work

by zefblog

December 4, 2014

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 …

November 5, 2020
Political participation during COVID-19: Local elections in the city of Bonn 2020

Political participation during COVID-19: Local elections in the city of Bonn 2020

by ZEFeditor

By Madiha Hussain, junior researchers at ZEF During the COVID-19 pandemic, political priorities have been shifted immensely in Germany. The situation offers a good opportunity to explore how the post-pandemic political participation could look like during elections. Moreover, the case of elections 2020 highlights the future of democracy, where politicians and citizens cannot have direct …

August 18, 2020
Twelve months – twelve books. My 2020 reading list on cities

Twelve months – twelve books. My 2020 reading list on cities

by Irit Eguavoen

Looking back a bit… The “Waterfront Metropolis Abidjan” project [see project website here] ended in November 2019 after 24 months of intensive research. Thinking about the economic capital of the Côte d´Ivoire and the relevance of informal urbanization have continued, though. My book manuscript on Abidjan has advanced, but is not ready for publishing yet. …

July 10, 2020
Young Entrepreneurs in Science & online engagements during Corona times 🦅 🦅

Young Entrepreneurs in Science & online engagements during Corona times 🦅 🦅

by Dr. Marwa Shumo

Do you know how much am I fond of the Wright brothers ?? So much that I could spend the whole night talking about the endless documentaries, books and articles I read about them. The Wright brothers were nothing but genius entrepreneurs who where way ahead of their time. They began their experimentation in flight …

April 29, 2020
Gender inequalities show and deepen in times of pandemic

Gender inequalities show and deepen in times of pandemic

by Dennis Avilés and Tina Beuchelt

Blog post by Dennis Avilés-Irahola, Tina Beuchelt, Christine Schmitt, Sarah Nischalke, Eva Youkhana and Franziska Geiger. The authors are members of the Gender Group at ZEF. One would not have expected a vicious virus causing a respiratory disease to discriminate in its life-threatening passage. Yet, according to conventional wisdom, inequalities are revealed when disaster or …

April 21, 2020
Giant gecko: Endangered treasure in the uninhabited Islets of Cape Verde

Giant gecko: Endangered treasure in the uninhabited Islets of Cape Verde

by ZEFeditor

Blog post by Katelene Delgado*) When you think of the uninhabited Islands of Cape Verde, you probably immediately imagine large sandy beaches, blue sea and sun. However, the Raso and Branco Islets, both belonging to Cape Verde, look a bit different. There is an even greater treasure in these islets: the Cape Verde giant gecko …

Beyond Covid-19: The real pandemic in Honduras

Beyond Covid-19: The real pandemic in Honduras

by Maryoriet Salgado

April 16, 2020

Photos by Jorge Alberto Torres Castillo A couple of weeks ago, I finally landed in my home country, Honduras. I had spent 18 months as a doctoral researcher at ZEF, Bonn, Germany including two North Rhine-Westphalia winters in a row away from my tropical homeland. Like many others that choose to leave for better opportunities, …

February 25, 2020
Is the Right to Food respected in sustainably certified coffee production? A case study from Kenya

Is the Right to Food respected in sustainably certified coffee production? A case study from Kenya

by Tina Beuchelt

Kenyan coffee is world-famous for its good quality. The major coffee-growing regions are located around Mount Kenya and the Aberdare Range, where the soil and altitude provide the best conditions for growing premium coffee. Kenyan coffee is one of the main contributors to the country’s foreign exchange earnings after tea and horticulture, and around 75% …

February 12, 2020
Infrastructure, droughts, floods, and food security: Field research in Malawi

Infrastructure, droughts, floods, and food security: Field research in Malawi

by Henry Kankwamba

Setting off to southern Malawi The sun scorched us mercilessly as we got out of the Toyota Land Cruiser 70 Series. The water that we had just bought from the nearest town 30 kilometers away was as hot as our morning coffee. It was an October morning in Nsanje, the most southern located district of …

February 6, 2020
The tassel was worth the hassle: on running the final lap of the PhD marathon

The tassel was worth the hassle: on running the final lap of the PhD marathon

by Dr. Marwa Shumo

ماضٍ فيَّ حُكمُك عَدْلٌ فيَّ قضاؤُك “I was able to push from within, I had an innate desire to succeed.” Joan Benoit A bit before I was born and on February 1984, astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart were the two men ever to walk untethered in space for the first time. Six …

December 20, 2019
How to electrify a village in Togo

How to electrify a village in Togo

by Arthur Guischet

An important component of CIREG (Climate Information for Renewable Electricity Generation) is the implementation of a pilot study with the aim to electrify a village with about 120 households (~10kW) in Togo at the Mono River. Between the 2nd to the 6th of December, a CIREG team composed of partners from The Potsdam Institute for …

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