I am back again with an update and a new link this time 😃 You will not only read about my research but rather get to hear my voice talking all about our research with the Black Soldier Flies. I was the Ento Nation’s podcast guest this week and I enjoyed conversing with the Cricket Man. …
The 11th „Science Night“ of the University of Bonn took place at the Münsterplatz and the Central Building of the University of Bonn. Tailored to the common topic “Cycles”, there were exhibitions, presentations and performances by universities and research institutes of the local area “Bonn-Rhein Sieg”. The event that takes places every other year offers …
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” – Hal Borland We did experience a long harsh winter this year, but at the end, spring did not skipp us and it did arrive in a full swing. The arrival of spring means being able to walk around our beautiful 200 years old university campus …
The question of how to best put science into practice is not new but still subject of public and experts’ debate. In reality it is not that easy to accomplish. An amazingly successful approach to put theory into practice was taken by ZEF’s NutriHAF project, a German-Ethiopian participatory research and capacity building project. It is …
March 2018. Team members of the project “Implementation of food security criteria within biomass sustainability standards” (FSS I Project) with its partners ZEF, Welthungerhilfe and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) traveled together with the consulting firm “Meo Carbon Solutions” to Malaysia. Aim of the trip was to learn how food security aspects can be addressed …
University of Cambridge researcher Charlotte LR Payne wrote an article for the independent on edible insects & food security with an accompanying supplementary list on blogs related to edible insects including my ZEF blog section 🙋🏽♀️☺ Here is a link to Charlotte LR Payne’s blog http://www.libertyruth.com/blog/an-article-for-the-independent-and-a-list-of-great-blogs
I was delighted to be featured in one of Ento Nation, USA posts 😊 Click here for a full view of the EntoNation post on Marwa Shumo The EntoNation article Some info about Ento Nation: Your online resource for all things Ento. Bringing the benefits of bugs to people and planet. If you love bugs, …
I woke up on the morning to the 14th of November 2017 to a very beautiful and delighting email from the wonderful Anne Borisch, a junior consultant working for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (English: German Corporation for International Cooperation ) which is a German development agency headquartered in Bonn and Eschborn that provides …
2018 started in a fantastic way. You could see the atmosphere we had from the fireworks we enjoyed and that ignited our city’s skyline. Somewhere in December, I was hooked up with the agency in charge of organizing the 18th Bonn Science Slam through my supervisor who encouraged me to go for it. This comes …
ZEF researchers read hundreds of academic articles, books, reports and media every year in order to stay up to date about what is going on in their field of study, to collect information and contextualise their empirical data. For those among us who are interested in researching cities I particular – or even reading about …