Sara Velander and Nady Mahmoud (Junior Researchers in the LANUSYNCON Project at ZEF) share their insights from UNCCD COP 16, which was held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 2-13, 2024….
Blog by Clement Roux, Eva Youkhana and Christian Petersheim Bogotá, November, 2024. During our research stay in Colombia’s capital we took the opportunity to visit the Museo de la ciudad…
Blog post by Tina Beuchelt, Constance Akurugu, Theresa Weise, Biihee Na Jaafar Natasung Pelpuo, Bushira Alhassan. Every year on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against…
Megacity Cairo hosted the 12th World Urban Forum on November 4-9, 2024. Eva Youkhana from ZEF was there and shares her insights in this blog. It is already dark when…
Engaging in fieldwork is multifaceted, fraught with unique challenges and rewarding insights. I conducted my field research in Nairobi’s informal settlements Korogocho and Pumwani-Majengo because I wanted to understand the…
This blog post takes you to the Konso Cultural Landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Ethiopia. When we started our trip to visit our partner university in Dilla, southern…
ZEF’s Doctoral Studies Support Program ran a second edition of its Traveling School at the National University of Colombia’s La Paz Campus. ZEF’s German-Colombian Doctoral Studies Support Program (DSSP) and…
A delegation of the bilateral ZEF-led project Doctoral Studies Support Program (DSSP) paid a visit to their partners in Argentina from March 18-25, 2024. DSSP is based at ZEF and…
On November 2, 2023 the One Health and Urban Transformation Graduate School at ZEF organized a (hybrid) One Health Research Symposium in commemoration of the annual World One Health Day…
The land she grows: from land access to changing practices for more gender justice. This is the second part about the event Women’s Land Rights and Gender Transformative Practices organized…
The ZEF-Gender Group and the Feminist Land Platform As scholars, we often become part of activist movements within the realms of high-level education. This can be through, for example, writing…
Part 3: Berlin excursion: Museum stop (July 21) Five doctoral researchers from the Doctoral Studies Support Program reflect on their 2023 Summer School in Germany (June-July 2023) organized by ZEF….
Part 2: Berlin excursion. Berlin stops 1-4 Five doctoral researchers from the Doctoral Studies Support Program reflect on their 2023 Summer School in Germany (June-July 2023) organized by ZEF. Impressions,…
Part 1: Impressions from our stay in Bonn Five doctoral researchers from the Doctoral Studies Support Program reflect on their 2023 Summer School in Germany (June-July 2023) organized by ZEF….
BLOG 5-6. June 23-24, 2023. Returning to and wrapping up in Tokyo. The faculty and students of ZEF (University of Bonn), IPADS and GSSP-GLI (both institutes are part of the…
BLOG 4. June 22, 2023. Visiting some of Hokkaido’s cultural heritage sites. Our stay in Mashike on the Isle of Hokkaido comes to an end after two days of intensive…
BLOG 3. June 21, 2023. Exploring seaweed-bed restauration sites in Mashike city, isle of Hokkaido. On the third day of our excursion, together with a group of IPADS students, we…
BLOG 2: June 20, 2023. Traveling by plane from Tokyo to Sapporo on the isle of Hokkaido (1,140 km). Continuing by bus, with a stop in Ishikari (visit to windpark)…
BLOG 1: June 19, 2023. Tokyo. The Power of Community and Collaboration ZEF researchers blog about their research excursion to Japan (June 17-25, 2023). Find general info and excursion’s program…
This week, June 5, was World Environment Day. It was initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1974 and it has grown to be the largest global platform…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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/…
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…
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…
Blog von Tina Beuchelt, Dennis Aviles und Emily Brown* Trotz jahrzehntelanger Kampagnen und Maßnahmen gegen geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt, die von feministischen Gruppen und Bewegungen auf der ganzen Welt geführt werden, ist…
Written by Tina Beuchelt, Dennis Aviles, and Emily Brown* Despite decades of campaigns and action against Gender-based violence by feminist groups and movements worldwide, women and girls’ experiences of domestic,…
In December 2021, the students of the Climate and Sustainable Development Actions Club (CSDAC) were awarded another grant by Plan International West and Central Africa. The new project plans to build human…
Sara Velander and Nady Mahmoud (Junior Researchers in the LANUSYNCON Project at ZEF) share their insights from UNCCD COP 16, which was held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 2-13, 2024….
Blog by Clement Roux, Eva Youkhana and Christian Petersheim Bogotá, November, 2024. During our research stay in Colombia’s capital we took the opportunity to visit the Museo de la ciudad…
Blog post by Tina Beuchelt, Constance Akurugu, Theresa Weise, Biihee Na Jaafar Natasung Pelpuo, Bushira Alhassan. Every year on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against…
Megacity Cairo hosted the 12th World Urban Forum on November 4-9, 2024. Eva Youkhana from ZEF was there and shares her insights in this blog. It is already dark when…
Engaging in fieldwork is multifaceted, fraught with unique challenges and rewarding insights. I conducted my field research in Nairobi’s informal settlements Korogocho and Pumwani-Majengo because I wanted to understand the…
This blog post takes you to the Konso Cultural Landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Ethiopia. When we started our trip to visit our partner university in Dilla, southern…
ZEF’s Doctoral Studies Support Program ran a second edition of its Traveling School at the National University of Colombia’s La Paz Campus. ZEF’s German-Colombian Doctoral Studies Support Program (DSSP) and…
A delegation of the bilateral ZEF-led project Doctoral Studies Support Program (DSSP) paid a visit to their partners in Argentina from March 18-25, 2024. DSSP is based at ZEF and…
On November 2, 2023 the One Health and Urban Transformation Graduate School at ZEF organized a (hybrid) One Health Research Symposium in commemoration of the annual World One Health Day…
The land she grows: from land access to changing practices for more gender justice. This is the second part about the event Women’s Land Rights and Gender Transformative Practices organized…
The ZEF-Gender Group and the Feminist Land Platform As scholars, we often become part of activist movements within the realms of high-level education. This can be through, for example, writing…
Part 3: Berlin excursion: Museum stop (July 21) Five doctoral researchers from the Doctoral Studies Support Program reflect on their 2023 Summer School in Germany (June-July 2023) organized by ZEF….
Part 2: Berlin excursion. Berlin stops 1-4 Five doctoral researchers from the Doctoral Studies Support Program reflect on their 2023 Summer School in Germany (June-July 2023) organized by ZEF. Impressions,…
Part 1: Impressions from our stay in Bonn Five doctoral researchers from the Doctoral Studies Support Program reflect on their 2023 Summer School in Germany (June-July 2023) organized by ZEF….
BLOG 5-6. June 23-24, 2023. Returning to and wrapping up in Tokyo. The faculty and students of ZEF (University of Bonn), IPADS and GSSP-GLI (both institutes are part of the…
BLOG 4. June 22, 2023. Visiting some of Hokkaido’s cultural heritage sites. Our stay in Mashike on the Isle of Hokkaido comes to an end after two days of intensive…
BLOG 3. June 21, 2023. Exploring seaweed-bed restauration sites in Mashike city, isle of Hokkaido. On the third day of our excursion, together with a group of IPADS students, we…
BLOG 2: June 20, 2023. Traveling by plane from Tokyo to Sapporo on the isle of Hokkaido (1,140 km). Continuing by bus, with a stop in Ishikari (visit to windpark)…
BLOG 1: June 19, 2023. Tokyo. The Power of Community and Collaboration ZEF researchers blog about their research excursion to Japan (June 17-25, 2023). Find general info and excursion’s program…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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/…
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…
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…
Blog von Tina Beuchelt, Dennis Aviles und Emily Brown* Trotz jahrzehntelanger Kampagnen und Maßnahmen gegen geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt, die von feministischen Gruppen und Bewegungen auf der ganzen Welt geführt werden, ist…
Written by Tina Beuchelt, Dennis Aviles, and Emily Brown* Despite decades of campaigns and action against Gender-based violence by feminist groups and movements worldwide, women and girls’ experiences of domestic,…
In December 2021, the students of the Climate and Sustainable Development Actions Club (CSDAC) were awarded another grant by Plan International West and Central Africa. The new project plans to build human…