Africa faces the challenge of supplying enough water, food and energy to its growing urban population.

Around 60 alumni from 14 African countries and from eight Centres for African Excellence met in Akasombo, Ghana on November 6-9, 2018.

The institutes will collaborate "in the conduct and promotion of joint research projects" such as sharing data, partnering in research grants applications and co-authoring of journal articles.

Around 50 students from Africa studying in Germany attended the Youth Townhall Meeting with entrepreneur Strive Masiyiwa to discuss Africa's future.

Interview with Dr. Fatuma Mninde-Silungwe, who is a lawyer from Malawi and Alumna from the South African German Center for Transnational Criminal Justice.

Interview with Dr. Darlington Sibanda, an Alumnus of an African Excellence Centre.

Pope Francis appointed Professor Hassan at a conference of the Pontifical Academy of Science in Rome last week.

Rome, October 26, 2018. The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and the Pontifical Academy of Science released a Declaration on “Food Safety and Healthy Diets for All”. It is based on a Workshop on Food Safety and Healthy Diets held in the Vatican, September 12-13, 2018.

Official kick-off of the ZEF-led Doctoral Studies Support Program took place in Bogota, Colombia on October 16, 2018.

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and the Pontifical Academy of Science released a Declaration on "Food Safety and Healthy Diets for All" on October 26, 2018. It is based on a Workshop on Food Safety and Healthy Diets held in the Vatican, September 12-13, 2018.

Marco Elías Cisneros Tersitsch received the Prize for the best doctoral thesis written and supervised at ZEF, awarded by the "Friends of ZEF" Association, for his dissertation on "The impact of public policies on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon".

ZEF alumna Denise Margaret S. Matias obtained the Josef G. Knoll European Science Award by the foundation fiat panis for her doctoral thesis

New project at ZEF about utilizing the nutritional and economic potentials of edible insects in Myanmar and Madagascar, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Food.

The thematic scope of the platform has been broadened.

ZEF at the 30th International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE) in Vancouver, July 28-August 2, 2018.

Professor Franz W. Gatzweiler, Professor Manfred Max-Neef and Professor Felix Fuders published a joint statement on the status quo of life in urban environments and the aspirations in the New Urban Agenda of the United Nations

ZEF’s German-Ethiopian NutriHAF project launches manual for local farmers and consumers on “Vegetable species for multi-storey cropping systems and human nutrition”.

During the IITA Board meeting in Bonn, April 23-26, 2018, international and German experts on Africa and development will talk about the crucial role of and measures for Africa's agricultural development.

Read about farmers in Africa, floods in Bangladesh, forests in South America and how Africa can build a future free from hunger and malnutrition in our latest ZEF news magazine.

"Despite progress made over the past 20 years, hunger in Africa persists" said Dr. Ousmane Badiane at an event at ZEF today during which the German version of '"Nourished": How Africa can build a future free from hunger and malnutrition' was launched. The report was published in English by the Malabo Montpellier Panel last year.