Ethiopia has been implementing an industrialization plan since 2010 and become a global player in the textile and apparel sector. The annual export value of (non-)knitted and (non-)crocheted garments has increased from about $44 million in 2015 to about $143 US$ in 2021. At the heart of the country’s industrialization efforts is the creation of…
For some, roads are avenues for new business opportunities that provide access to new markets. For others, roads pave the way for deforestation, agricultural expansion, and biodiversity loss. In their research, Philipo Mtweve and Vincent Moseti study the impacts and varying perceptions of roads in Africa. They are both PhD students of Jun.-Prof. Dr. Lisa…
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 I arrive by plane at Cairo airport. The endless sea of lights is just as impressive as the polluted air in this megacity is unbearable….
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…
In 2021, the need to engage and deepen our understanding of ‘the city’ increased due to the repercussions brought upon by the COVID-19 pandemic. Two junior researchers of ZEF’s Department for Political and Cultural Change, Amit Kumar and Maryoriet Rosales, decided to organize a virtual meeting on April 6, 2021 with researchers engaged in conducting…
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
Talk by ZEF-Senior Researcher Epifania Amoo-Adare about an explanatory guide that discusses post-disciplinary perspectives for (un)thinking current modes of research. Epifania Amoo-Adare has been following a figuration of processes related to knowledge generation and unlearning, since she joined the research project Crossroads Asia in 2013. Amoo-Adare’s journey has been, in her words, both systematic and…
Interview with Professor Nobuyuki Yagi, who is Associate Professor of Resource Economics and Marine Policy at University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Before joining the University of Tokyo in 2008, he had worked for the Fisheries Agency of the Government of Japan. From 1999 to 2002 he was First Secretary at…
The cooperation on paper becomes real. With the recent signing of two Memoranda of Understanding between the University of Tokyo and the University of Bonn on the one hand and the MoU between ZEF and IPADS on the other, the “strategic international partnership” between the institutions in Japan and Germany has become official. This has…
