Former research projects at ZEF

EMD - Efficiency of Micro-Development. Theoretical Modeling and Empirical Studies

Integrating governance and modeling (Project within the Challenge Program on Water and Food)

Ended research projects

Agent-Based Simulation of Sustainable Resource Use in Agriculture and Forestry (Robert-Bosch Research group)

BIOECON - BIOdiversity and Economics for CONservation (ended 2/04)

Communications Technology in Low-income Countries (ended 9/05)

Decentralization and Poverty (ended 2002)

Determinants and effects of alternative institutions for natural resource management in developing countries

Economic valuation of indigenous breeds and how the loss of animal genetic resources effects the welfare of local populations (ended 9/05)

Economics of Agricultural Biotechnology (ended 2007)

Environmental and food safety standards

Environmental and social labeling, incl. child labor

Facilitating the widespread adoption of conservation agriculture in maize-based systems in Eastern and Southern Africa (ended 12/07)

Globalisation of Knowledge (ended 3/02)

GLOWA-Volta: Sustainable Water Use under Changing Land Use, Rainfall Reliability, and Water Demands in the Volta Basin (ended 5/09)

Governance and Conflict

GRPI - Genetic Resources Policy Initiatives: strengthening capacity to analyze national options (ended 06/08)

Integrated Water Resources Management, Knowledge and Technology Transfer in the Densu River Basin, Ghana

ITWRM - Integrated, transboundary water Resource Management (ended 4/05)

Local Knowledge and the Digital Divide

NeWATER - New Approaches to Adaptive Water Management under Uncertainty

PASAD - Policy Analysis for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central Eastern Europe and Southern Africa (ended 6/05)

Political Economy of Economic & Institutional Reform (ended 12/04)

Regional Perspectives on Education Reform (ended 2004)

Role of biological sources for the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in tropical soils (Cooperation with University of Berlin)

Secondary Forests and Fallow Vegetation in the Agricultural Landscape of the Eastern Amazon Region, Brazil (ended 8/03)

Smallholders in the Amazon: Interaction between Ecosystem and Social Systems in the Utilisation and Protection of Tropical Rainforests (ended 1/04)

State Failure and Local Governance in Afghanistan and Somalia/Somaliland (ended 12/06)

STRIVER - Strategy and methodology for improved IWRM - An integrated interdisciplinary assessment in four twinning river basins

SWMP - Social Water Management Project

Trade and Agricultural Policy Distortions in Developing Countries (ended 2004)

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