Read the latest ZEF Working Paper no 210 about the socio-environmental consequences of the Peace Agreement in Colombia

Professor Joachim von Braun, director at ZEF, was appointed president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in 2017 for a four-year term. Now Pope Francis has appointed him for another four years.

Volkswagen Foundation supports scientific projects of the University of Bonn in Africa and the Amazon region

Contributions by ZEF researchers and senior fellows.

Learn more about the Science Days on July 8-9 and how ZEF is involved

In: Climate and Development. May 10, 2021.

The unprecedented migrant crisis is one of the major catastrophes emerging during the COVID-19 pandemic in India according to research by Gulati, A., Jose, S. & B.B. Singhsays synthesized in PARI Policy Brief 27.

The German Academic Exchange Service is funding a total of eight interdisciplinary "Global Centers" to address global challenges in a new program.

Research by ZEF guest researcher on sensitive geopolitical conflict around Ethiopian mega-dam

Link to Online Video here!

Visit the new website bonnwaternetwork.de and watch the video on youtube.

Read about ZEF's research on water and the Bonn Water Network event on March 23.

by Joachim von Braun, Margaret S. Archer, Gregory M. Reichberg, Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo

Publication by Neus Escobar and Wolfgang Britz

ZEF could slightly improve its ranking in three different categories.

In-depth national studies by ZEF and the Agrhymet Regional Centre of the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) on land, climate, energy, agriculture and development in the 11 Sahel countries show how manifold potentials of the region could be better harnessed.