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- How to electrify a village in Togo
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)… - Postcard from India: visiting RC21 conference and exploring low-income residential areas in Delhi and Mumbai
In September 2019, a group of ZEF researchers, among them three members of the “ZEF in the City” research group [find more information here] traveled to Delhi and other parts… - Eat it or feed it – promoting insect-rearing in Madagascar
Would you like to try some “pigeon poo” made of insect flour or learn that black soldier fly larvae can get overweight? Then join us on our journey to Madagascar’s… - Edible Insects & the future of food security: My experience as a lecturer in the Philippines ❤️
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks… - Celebrating the World Food Day in Hohenheim
World Food Day is a day of action dedicated to tackling global hunger. Held annually on 16th October celebrating the creation of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The focus of… - Do grasshoppers only eat grass? INSECTA 2019 gave the answer!
Do grasshoppers only eat grass? This was only one of the many interesting questions discussed and answered at the INSECTA 2019 conference. The international science gathering took place at the… - A review by Prof Jeff Tomberlin 😍
Please follow the link to read an exclusive review on our latest publications by the one and only BSF expert Jeff Tomberlin. https://www.evoconsys.com/blog/globalization-of-the-black-soldier-fly-a-series-of-well-timed-publications - Road tripping in Japan : Impressions from our field work/trip in Yui, Shizuoka
On a coach heading to Yui But why Yui? Because Yui Port is located in a great position immediately off the southern coast of Suruga Bay in Shizouka prefecture and… - Talking and tackling urban agriculture, urban food systems and urban health: “One Health” partners met in Sao Paulo for further agenda setting
Around 25 participants from nine different Brazilian and German institutions of the Graduate School “One Health and Urban Transformations – identifying risks and developing sustainable solutions” met in Sao Paulo,… - 一期一会 Japan “One life, one encounter.”
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… - Research on Black Soldier Fly shows amazing results published by Nature Research in Scientific Reports
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,… - Cricket rearing is not an easy exercise. ProciNut organized training sessions in Myanmar
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… - Chalo Amdavad. Leaving field research in India
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… - Contribution to the 2nd Global Climate Strike in Bonn by “Scientists for Future” Climate action now! Because it is not enough to know.
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 - Elevator Pitch: “Sorority”
“What does sorority mean to you?” This is what ZEF Junior Researcher Namrata Rawat and Margee Salgado decided to ask people around ZEF during an elevator pitch. - Sorority has been excluded from sexist vocabularies
Thinking on the outcomes of their Elevator pitch on Sorority, Salgado states: “Sorority has been excluded from the developing vocabularies! - New Publication ” Insects for Feed”
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… - In search of yummi insects, insect-eaters and mini-farmers in Myanmar and Thailand (Part 2)
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… - In search of yummi insects, insect-eaters and mini-farmers in Myanmar and Thailand (Part 1)
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… - Setting up field research in India or “wishing that everything was as easy as getting fat”
Blog post by Anna Brückner, ZEF doctoral student in the project ‘One Health and Urban Transformations’ who has been conducting her field research in Ahmadabad, India since January 2019. In… - Being part of the Global Solutions Summit 2019
By Fernanda Martinelli, doctoral student at ZEF in the STRIVE – Sustainable Trade & Innovation Transfer in the Bioeconomy (strive-bioecon.de) On March 18-19, Germany’s capital Berlin set the stage for… - Twelve months – twelve books. My 2019 reading list on cities
The new year comes with updated New Year resolutions. And the question whether I have really fully read all the books from my previous 2018 reading list? Well… almost :-)…. - Guten Rutsch/Happy New Year
Upon our return from South Africa,Christmas was just around the corner and it was that time of the year when you see a mad Santa hanging outside of windows. It… - Girl meets Indian Ocean- Impressions from the “Rainbow Nation” (2)
We left Howick and spent the last couple of nights for us in South Africa in St Lucia with the aim of exploring the Isimangaliso Wetland Reserve. The road trip… - Sleepless in Howick- Impressions from the “Rainbow Nation” (1)
On the 18th of July the world celebrated the 100th birthday of the great inspirational leader, Nelson Mandela. Madiba lived a remarkable life; a life devoted to fight for black… - Eschew obfuscation (write so that people can understand what you want to say)This blog post was written by Cory Whitney and Anna Yuwen “The pen is mightier than the sword” (Bulwer-Lytton, 1896) is the age-old adage that highlights the power of writing….