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ZEF
activities at and around the COP23
November 6-17, 2017. ZEF organized a
series of events on the occasion of the COP23 in Bonn. Find more information, posts,
photos and video footage about
our main events on our Website www.zef.de/cop23, on ZEF's Facebook
Site.and ZEF's Twitter account.
It's
getting hot in here: Biodiversity and ecosystems in climate
change. Luncheon event series @ ZEF
Nov. 6, 2017. Biodiversity and Protected Areas
under Climate Change [more]
Nov. 7, 2017. Ecosystems Services and Climate Change [more]
Nov. 8, 2017. Land Degradation and Climate Change [more]
Nov. 9, 2017. Ecosystem-based Adaptation Planning and
Implementation [more]
Nov. 10, 2017. Ecosystem-based Adaptation Standards, Criteria,
and Linkages [more]
Science
slam: Research on climate and development in West and East
Africa. Bonn Zone, German Pavilion. Nov. 9, 2017.
[more]
Too
big to fail: The Amazonia and solutions towards sustainable development.
ZEF, Nov. 13, 2017. [more]
World
Café in the climateplanet.de:
Climate research made in West and Southern Africa.
Co-organized by WASCAL,
SASSCAL
and ZEF. [more]
Find more information about all events at www.zef.de/cop23
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Watch the video clip about the World Café - COP23
here
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ZEF member
of Bonn Alliance for Sustainability Research
Nov. 15, 2017. Under the lead of Bonn University a new Alliance
for Sustainability Research was founded at the
premises of the COP23's Bonn Zone in Bonn. Next to Bonn
University and its Institutes members are the Bonn International
Conversion Center (BICC),
the German Development Institute (DIE) as well as the Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg. More
information (in German) here.
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End hunger:
An issue for the agricultural fair agritechnica in Hannover
Nov. 14, 2017. ZEF-Director Joachim von Braun, Federal
Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Gerd Müller and
President of the German Agriculture Association Carl Bartmer
talked about how sustainable agriculture can contribute to ending
hunger. [more]
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ZEF-Director
Joachim von Braun gives key note at EU Conference FOOD2030
October 16, 2017. ZEF- Director
Joachim von Braun gave a presentation at the FOOD2030 Conference
on "Harnessing research and innovation for FOOD2030: A
science policy dialogue", held by the European Commission. [more]
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Learn
lessons from success to beat malnutrition in Africa, advise
experts
The
battle against malnutrition in Africa can be won, according to a
new report launched by the Malabo Montpellier Panel at the Africa
Green Revolution Forum in Cote d’Ivoire in September 2017.
ZEF-director Joachim von Braun is co-chair of the Panel. [more]
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ZEF
EVENTS and PUBLIC LECTURES
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ZEF
activities at and around the COP23
see
at www.zef.de/cop23 [more]
ZEF at
UN Day 2017
October
14. ZEF
and the Right
Livelihood College Campus Bonn (RLC) presented their
research and activities at this year's United Nations Day in
Bonn. [more]
Opening Photo exhibition
"Inside India. Impressions and insights from field
research".
September
21 at ZEF. [more]
Tropentag: Workshop on
Implementation of SDGs.
September,
19. Workshop on “Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals”
under the umbrella of Tropentag at Bonn University. [more]
Public
lecture organized by the Right Livelihood College Campus Bonn
(RLC): Human Rights and Environmental Governance: From
Marginalization to Empowerment
September
5, 2017. Experts discussed
the nexus between economic development, ecological balance, and
rural livelihoods of marginalized people in Latin America, Africa
and Asia. [more]
Bonn Water
Lecture with Prof. Dr. Petra
Döll,Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe University
Frankfurt) on Using cartograms to visualize water resources as
well as climate change risks and responsibilities on November 23.
[more]
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DOCTORAL DEFENSES
(since September 2017)
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Alisher
Ergashev (Uzbekistan). Analysis of fruit
and vegetable supply, demand, diet quality and nutrition in
Uzbekistan. December 5, 2017.
Hugo Rosa da Conceicao
(Brazil). Determinants of incentive-based forest governance
in the Amazon: Evidence from Ecuador, Peru and Brazil.
November 28, 2017.
Minjung Cho (South
Korea). Institutional Assessment of Health Research Capacity in
Uzbekistan: Research Productivity, Organizational Capacity, and
Research use in Policy. November 9, 2017.
Lai Wan Teng
(Malaysia). We come. We work. We relate. The migrant
labourers in Penang. October 10, 2017.
Daniel Alejandro Rozas Vasquez (Chile). Mainstreaming
the ecosystem services approach in strategic environmental
assessment of spatial planning in Chile. October 4, 2017.
Denise
Matias (The Philippines).
Sustainability of community forestry enterprises: indigenous wild
honey gathering in the UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve Palawan,
Philippines. September 15, 2017.
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ZEF
Policy Briefs
Zita
Maria Lenfert and Jan Börner. 2017.
Soybean
certification and tropical deforestation in Brazil: how to move
towards zero-net deforestation. (ZEF
Policy Brief 28) Download (English)
PARI. 2017.
Smallholder
agriculture mechanization in Africa. (PARI
Policy Brief 5) Download (English)
PARI.
2017.
Improving Employment Prospects for Africa’s Rural Youth
(PARI Policy Brief 6) Download (English)
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ZEF
Working Papers
162 Addressing
Transboundary Cooperation in the Eastern Nile through the
Water-Energy-Food Nexus. Berga, H., Ringler, C., Bryan,
E., El Didi, H. & S. Elnasikh. 2017.
(ZEF
Working Paper 162) [Download]
161 Potential
of Agroforestry for Food and Nutrition Security of Small-scale
Farming Households. Jemal,
O.M. and D. Callo-Concha. 2017.
(ZEF
Working Paper 161) [Download]
160 The Wheat Sector in Ethiopia:
Current Status and Key Challenges for Future Value Chain
Development. Gebreselassie, S.,
Haile, M.G. and M. Kalkuhl. 2017.
(ZEF
Working Paper 160) [Download]
159 Innovations
spearheading the next transformations in India‘s agriculture. Ganguly,
K., Gulati, A. and J. von Braun. 2017.
(ZEF
Working Paper 159) [Download]
158 The agricultural extension
system in Ethiopia: operational setup, challenges and
opportunities. Leta, G., Kelboro,
G., Stellmacher, T. and A.-K. Hornidge. 2017.
(ZEF
Working Paper 158) [Download]
157 Potentials of Waste and
Wastewater Resources Recovery and Re-use (RRR) Options for
Improving Water, Energy and Nutrition Security. Bekchanov,
M. 2017.
(ZEF
Working Paper 157) [Download]
156 Buying
green and social from abroad: Are biomass-focused voluntary
sustainability standards useful for European public procurement? Beuchelt,
T. 2017.
(ZEF
Working Paper 156) [Download]
156 Expanding
Youth Employment in the Arab Region and Africa. von
Braun, J. and C. Kofol. 2017.
(ZEF
Working Paper 155) [Download]
You
can find all ZEF Working Papers here.
ZEF
Discussion Papers
246
Media Coverage and
Food Commodities: Agricultural Futures Prices and Volatility
Effects. Almanzar, M. and M.
Torero. 2017.(ZEF
Discussion Paper 246) [Download]
245 Can social safety nets protect
public health? The effect of India’s workfare and foodgrain
subsidy programmes on anaemia. Narayanan,
S., Gerber, N. Rathore U. and K. Naraparaju. 2017.
(ZEF
Discussion Paper 245) [Download]
244 An adverse social welfare
consequence of a rich-to-poor income transfer: A relative
deprivation approach. Stark,
O., Kosiorowski, G. and M. Jakubek. 2017.
(ZEF
Discussion Paper 244) [Download] [PDF | 1.14MB]
243 A class of proximity-sensitive
measures of relative deprivation. Stark,
O., Bielawski, J. and F. Falniowski. 2017.
(ZEF
Discussion Paper 243) [Download] [PDF | 540.57KB]
242 Food Price Spikes and Volatility
in Local Food Markets in Nigeria. Shittu,
A.M., Akerele, D. and M. Haile. 2017.
(ZEF
Discussion Paper 242) [Download] [PDF | 1.38MB]
241 Indian food and welfare schemes:
Scope for digitization towards cash transfers. Saini, S., Sharma, S., Gulati,
A., Hussain, S. and J. von Braun. 2017.
(ZEF
Discussion Paper 241) [Download] [PDF | 1.36MB]
You
can find all ZEF Discussion Papers here.
Books
and peer-reviewed journal articles
Akhtar F, U.K. Awan, B.
Tischbein, U.W. Liaqat. 2017. A
phenology based geo-informatics approach to map land use and land
cover (2003-2013) by spatial segregation of large heterogenic
river basins. Applied Geography, 88:
48-61. Further Information
Akhtar F., U.K. Awan, B.
Tischbein, U.W. Liaqat. 2017. A
phenology based geo-informatics approach to map land use and land
cover (2003-2013) by spatial segregation of large heterogenic
river basins. Applied Geography, 88:
48-61. Further Information
Amoo-Adare E. A. 2017.
Teaching
to Transgress: Crossroads Perspective and Adventures in (?)-Disciplinarity.
In:
Katja Mielke and Anna-Katharina Hornidge (eds.): Area Studies at
the Crossroads: Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn.
Palgrave Macmillan. Further Information
Assa M., Gebremariam, G. and
Mapemba, L.. 2017. A Cross-region
Study: Climate Change Adaptation in Malawi’s Agro-based Systems.
In:
Zinyengere, N., Theodory, T., Gebreyes, M., and Speranza, C.
(eds.): Multiple Perspectives on Climate Change and Agriculture
in Africa. https://www.elsevier.com/books/beyond-agricultural-impacts/zinyengere/978-0-12-812624-0.
39-54.
Baumüller, H. 2017.
Towards
Smart Farming? Mobile Technology Trends and their Potential for
Developing Country Agriculture.
In:
K.E. Skouby, I. Williams and A. Gyamfi (eds.): Handbook for ICT
in developing countries: 5G perspectives. River Publishers.
191-201.
Bekchanov M., Djanibekov N., J.
Lamers (in press). 2017. Water in Central
Asia: a cross-cutting management issue.
In:
Squires V., L. Qi (eds.): Sustainable Land Management in Greater
Central Asia: An Integrated and Regional Perspective. Springer.
Further
Information
Beuchelt, T.D., Mohr, A. and R.
Schneider. 2017. The
human Right to Food and sustainable soil management: linking
voluntary agricultural sustainability standards with food
security. In: Ginzky, H.,
Heuser, I., Tianbao Qin, Ruppel, O. and P. Wegerdt (eds.):
International Yearbook on Soil Law and Policy. Spinger.
237-262.
Review
Saini,
Rajinder K. et al. Protecting cows in
small holder farms in East Africa from tsetse flies by mimicking
the odor profile of a non-host bovid
Further Information
You
can find all ZEF peer-reviewed journal articles here.
All
books are listed here.
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