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Center for Development Research
The Center for Development Research (ZEF) is an institute of the University of Bonn, Germany. It started its research activities in 1997. ZEF researchers aim to find science-based solutions to promote sustainable development and planetary health. ZEF’s research divisions and groups conduct inter- and trans-disciplinary research in, for and with emerging economies and on global issues with its collaborating research partners around the world. ZEF educates and trains international doctoral students in its Doctoral Studies Program. ZEF is guided by an International Advisory Board.
Latest News
New ZEF-led Collaborative Research Center (CRC) on Food System Diversification
Whether it’s malnutrition, diet-related diseases, or negative environmental impacts, our food systems are neither sustainable nor sufficiently resilient. A promising approach to changing this is to diversify food systems.
Less hunger, more environmental problems?
Bonn University published a press release on the publication by Juliana Minetto Gellert Paris, Ute Nöthlings, Felix Ankomah Asante & Matin Qaim: The sustainability of diets in sub-Saharan Africa: Synergies and tradeoffs between human health and the environment; Sustainable Production and Consumption (see link below).
Albert Allan Dakyie successfully defended his doctoral thesis
Albert Allan Dakyie successfully defended his doctoral thesis on “Cross-border Education and its relationship to sociocultural integration and economic development in West African border communities”.
His supervisor was Prof. Dr. Eva Youkhana (ZEF CPC)
Anna Brücker graduated on the topic of ‘Blue health’ for healthy aging?
Anna Brückner defended her doctoral thesis titled 'Blue health’ for healthy aging? Urban blue spaces as potentially therapeutic landscapes for older people in Ahmedabad and Ruhr Metropolis'.
Her first supervisor was Prof. Dr. Thomas Kistemann, University hospital Bonn and her second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mariele Evers, Department of Geography, University of Bonn. Anna's tutor was PD Dr. Timo Falkenberg, University hospital Bonn.
ZEF Research Projects
ZEF is running interdisciplinary research projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Upcoming Events
ZEF public lecture about Biofortified Seeds in Zimbabwe
ZEF, Genscherallee 3, ...
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Individuals do not always make decisions according to traditional economic rationality; instead, behavioral factors such as perceptions, information, and ...
ZEF/CSG Expert Talk: The implications of complexity
Zoom
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Expert Talk by Carlos Gershenson, an Empire Professor of Innovation at the School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, at the State University of New ...
INTERFACES colloquium: sustainable land management in Africa
Online only
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Multiple actors, multiple strategies: how to incentivize the uptake of sustainable land management practices by smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa
ZEF Colloquium: Becoming river
ZEF, Genscherallee 3, ...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Water is at the center of the struggle for life. Modern civilization's dependence on capitalist formations has led to the destruction of ecosystems and ...