Dr. Tina Beuchelt

• Land use and food security
• Growth, inequality and poverty
• Sustainable use of natural resources
• Gender
• Human Rights
• Agriculture, land use, climate change
• Health

• Burkina Faso
• Ethiopia
• Kenya
• Guatemala
• Malaysia
• Mexico
• Bolivia
• Madagascar

INTERFACES - Supporting Pathways to Sustainable Land Management in Africa - a project that supports four BMBF-funded regional projects in their endeavor to drive change for sustainable land management in Sub-Saharan Africa through impact-driven support activities which build on networking, knowledge management, science communication, social learning processes and capacity development, and by complementary transfer  analyses and research. Link: INTERFACES

Fortschrittskolleg 'One Health and urban transformation' - A transdiciplinary graduate school seeking integrated interventions to attain optimal health for humans, animals, plants and the environment. Link: One Health

Former Projects:

FSS I Project: Implementation of food security criteria within biomass sustainability standards - Aim of the FSS │ Project is to implement and complement the recently developed rights-based food  security criteria (see ESSZert project) in food insecure regions in Africa, Latin-America and Asia. Link: FSS I Project

NutriHAF-Africa - Diversifying agriculture for balanced nutrition through fruits and vegetables in multi-storey cropping systems. Link: NutriHAF-Africa

BiomassWeb - Improving food security in Africa through increased system productivity of biomass-based value webs. Link: BiomassWeb project

ESSZert - Developing food and nutrition security criteria for biomass standards and certifications. Link: ESSZert

Sustainable Public Procurement in Germany/NRW - A research and transfer network with inter- and transdisciplinary research agenda. Link: Sustainable Public Procurement in NRW

Co-coordindator of  ZEF's Gender Group

* Gender and environment
* Gender and sustainable development
* Conducting gender-sensitive research
* Poverty and development strategies
* Farm and project management and evaluation

For publications visit also my Google Scholar Profile and my ORCID Profile

Member of Advisory Boards / Ethics Advisory Committees

* Advisory Board of the Food Security Standard 
* ‘Scientific Advisory Committee’ of the ‘Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management’ (SASSCAL)
*  Ethics Advisor for the EU Horizon Europe project  "BioMonitor4CAP“ . https://biomonitor4cap.eu/en/.

Project Leadership

* ZEF Project Leader (2022-2026): INTERFACES
* ZEF Project Leader (2017-2020): FSS I Project
* ZEF Project Leader (2014-2015): ESSZert
* ZEF Project Scientific Coordinator (2014-2017): BiomassWeb project
* CIMMYT-International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (2011-2013): Leader of the Socio-Economic Component of MasAgro

Memberships

* Member of the Council for Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural Research (ATSAF)
* Member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE)
* Member of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE)
* Member of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
* Member of the European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation (ATGender)
* Member of the Fachgesellschaft Geschlechterstudien // Gender Studies Association (Germany)
* Member of the Women’s & Gender Research Network NRW 

* Member of the Transdisciplinary Research Area Innovation and Technology for Sustainable Futures (TRA6)

Latest news of our ZEF Gender Group:

Check out our activities: Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow: International Women's Day 2022 on March 8, 2022!

Check out our latest Blog post: Why rural development cannot happen whilst Gender-based violence remains endemic across the world

Check out our pased event on Gender-based Violence and Rural Development Outcomes on Nov 25, 2021, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Watch the video: https://bit.ly/ZEFGG-Event

Cécile Poitevin. Thesis Title: Power, gender-based violence and smallholder farmers’ adaptation pathways in Ghana. INTERFACES Project

Fernando Rodríguez-Camayo. Thesis Title: How can food security and resilience to climate change of smallholders be addressed in specialty coffee value chains? The case of the dry corridor in Honduras. Joint project with International Center for Tropical Agriculture - CIAT.

Sanjana Rajasekar. Thesis Title: The Interaction between Formal and Informal Social Protection in promoting Resilience to Food Insecurity in Ahmedabad, India. One-Health Project together with the H-BRS Prof. Dr. Katja Bender.

Panrawee Praditsorn. Thesis Title: Build Capacity for Smart Communities and Schools to Prevent Childhood Overweight and Obesity in Thailand: Impact Evaluation of the Nutrition Training Programme. One-Health Project

Joshua Musyoki Muloi. Thesis Title: Regenerative Agriculture Transition by Smallholder : A Case of Makueni County, Kenya.

Faith Kudzai Chihumbiri. Thesis Title: Determining the factors for improving resilience in access to and management of water, energy and food in Namibian smallholder farming communities with contrasting socio-economic and environmental profiles. Co-Supervisor with Department of Agricultural Sciences and Agribusiness (DASA), Namibia University of Science & Technology

Irene Ampaabeng. Thesis Title: Understanding Gender Norms, Power Dynamics and Emerging Tenure Issues for Sustainable Land Management in Ghana: A Case Study of Tamale. Co_supervisor with School of Development Studies, University of Cape Coast. INTERFACES Project

German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn, Germany

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico

Food Security Center (FSC), University of Hohenheim, Germany

Institute of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Hohenheim, Germany

International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Colombia & Nicaragua

Doctoral degree (Dr. sc. agr.) at the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Hohenheim, Germany

M.Sc. in Agricultural Sciences, Food Security and Natural Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Hohenheim

B.Sc. in Agricultural Sciences, University of Hohenheim

(i) German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
(ii) German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)
(iii) DAAD
(iv) Landesregierung NRW

Room No: 1.011 
E-mail: beuchelt(at)uni-bonn.de

Main partners:
* German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
* Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA)
* West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL)
* Southern African Science Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL)
* University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (H-BRS)
* SDD University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (UBIDS)
* International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Colombia
* Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (Mexico)

Transdisciplinary partners:
* Welthungerhilfe, Germany
* WWF, Germany
* ISCC - International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (Cologne/Germany)
* Cotton made in Africa (CmiA)
* Rainforest Alliance (RA)

Further research partners:
* Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie (WI)
* Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
* CIMMYT (Mexico)
* University of Hohenheim, Germany