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, Brazil, in June 2019.

Von Braun participated in a three-hour hearing with German Parliamentarians on "World Food Supply and Climate Change" in Berlin on June 5, 2019.

ZEF Alumna Anna Schwachula won the Campus Prize of the University of Bremen for sustainability research with her dissertation on German science policy for research cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies in sustainability research.

Interview with ZEF Senior Researcher Dr. Oliver Kirui

Soy plantations threaten larger areas of rainforest and its habitats with the improvement of infrastructure, study shows - MapBiomas awards research of ZEF-scientists and colleagues

Bogotá/Colombia, May 10-12, 2019. In honor of his 250th birthday, Alexander von Humboldt, the great natural scientist, globetrotter and humanist, will be at the center of the 'Humboldt y las Américas' (Humboldt and the Americas), a event series by the Federal Foreign Office.

The DSSP Project, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is also contributing to occasion.

Paris - Scientists and policy makers from all across the globe met at the 7th plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) from April 28th to May 4th, 2019. More than 800 people participated at this summit which was hosted by the UNESCO in Paris.

Research at the One Health and Urban Transformation Graduate School investigates causes and counter action

Implementation of food security criteria within biomass sustainability standards

Evidence from Tanzania

An opportunistic market response

Assessing ecosystem services in northern Ghana. By Janina Kleemann.

Bilateral Doctoral Studies Support Program kicks off with workshop in Bogotá (ZEFnews 38, Lead article)

Editorial by Eva Youkhana (ZEFnews38)

Interview with Dr. Ildephonse Musafiri, ZEF alumnus, who is now Head of the Strategy and Policy Unit, Economic Cluster, at the Office of the President of Rwanda.

Interview with Jakob Rhyner, Scientific Director of the Bonn Alliance for Sustainability Research / Innovation Campus Bonn.

ZEF-Director Joachim von Braun attended the meeting of the International Advisory Council this week in Beijing, China, kicking-off activities for the next Global Bioeconomy Summit, which will take place in autumn 2020 in Berlin.

Antoinette is a DAAD PhD Alumna who graduated in August 2015. She participated in the Ghanaian-German Center for Development Studies in Accra, which is led by ZEF.

Around 200 development policy experts attended and discussed the presentation of the Malabo Montpellier report "Mechanized" in Berlin at BMZ on February 20,2019.

Alumni Steering Committee of the DAAD African Centres of Excellence meet at ZEF to consolidate network.