By Eva Youkhana and Francisco Preiti* Rosario, February 2023. We return from Cordoba, the second largest city in the center of Argentina where we paid a visit to one of the nine global Right Livelihood Campuses. We also met with Raul Montenegro, an RLC – laureate who won the “Alternative Nobel Prize” (Right Livelihood Award)…
This week, June 5, was World Environment Day. It was initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1974 and has grown to be the largest global platform for environmental outreach. World Environment Day 2022 was dedicated to the theme “Only One Earth”, whereas World Environment Day 2023 focuses on solutions to plastic pollution…
This blog post was written by ZEF senior research Isimemen Osemwegie*, who attended the Global Biodiversity Summit in Montreal in December 2022. Osemwegie is an expert on climate change and biodiversity and a member of the UNCBD Women Caucus. Montreal, Canada’s second-most populous city, welcomed parties and different stakeholders from all over the world to…
This blog post was written by Abraham Kidane, Public Health Veterinarian and Jaqueline Hildebrandt, Public Health Scientist. Both researchers belong to the One Health & Urban Transformation Graduate School at ZEF (BIGS-DR batch 2021) and conduct research on One Health issues in Ghana. In this blog post they share their experiences and insights from their…
PART 2 As part of the partnership-program between ZEF and the International Program in Agricultural Development Studies (IPADS) of the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Tokyo, two groups of doctoral students went on simultaneous field trips to look into the “Conservation of Coastal Ecosystems – Linkages between Agriculture and Marine Environment” in August…
PART 1 As part of the partnership-program between ZEF and the International Program in Agricultural Development Studies (IPADS) of the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Tokyo, two groups of doctoral students went on simultaneous field trips to look into the “Conservation of Coastal Ecosystems – Linkages between Agriculture and…
Sara Velander is a junior researcher with the LANUSYNCON project at ZEF. In this blog post she shares her experiences and insights from her research trip to the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) which was held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, May 9-20, 2022. Land Degradation…
Reflections and impressions from the ICLEI World Conference in Malmö, Sweden, in May 2022. By Niklas Wagner, junior researcher at the One Health and Urban Transformation Graduate School of ZEF/ University of Bonn. Niklas’s research focuses on institutions that connect knowledge and policy in the context of urban climate resilience. He participated in the World…
Blog post by Ahmed Abdalla, a doctoral researcher at ZEF and the Right Livelihood Campus Bonn. Egypt is the third most populated country in Africa, with a current population of 104 million people. The majority of Egypt’s inhabitants live on only 7% of the country’s land surface, mainly along the Nile River stretching from south…
By Fuad Hassan* Trends of agricultural mechanization have taken on a new significance in developing countries in recent years. These trends have been triggered by the shrinking availability of hired labor and rising labor wages, as more non-farm income opportunities for farmers have arisen over the past 20 years. Whereas crop cultivation used to be…
