Dr. Sarah Nischalke
- Land use and food security
- Environmental and climate change
- Mobility and migration
- Social and Cultural Change and Adaptation
- Gender
- Agriculture, land use, climate change
- Health
- China
- Ethiopia
- India
- South Africa
- Pakistan
- Thailand
- Nepal
- Burma/ Myanmar
- Madagascar
ProciNut - Processing of edible insects for improved nutrition
NutriHAF-Africa: Diversifying agriculture for balanced nutrition through fruits and vegetables in multi-storey cropping systems in Ethiopia and Madagascar
ZEF Project Leader (since 2018): ProciNut
Sarah Marie Nischalke is a senior researcher with a doctoral degree in human geography from the University of Göttingen and a Double Masters degree in Sociology, Anthropology and Political Science (Global Studies) from Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg and University of Kwazulu Natal, Durban, South Africa. Before joining ZEF she worked as food security analyst for the International Centre of Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Nepal for several years - on mountain food and nutrition security, gender and climate-smart agriculture /adaptation across the Himalayas in the Himalayan Climate Change Adaptation Program. Prior to that she worked in an urban megacity projects for the University of Freiburg (Sustainable Megacities, Hyderabad, BMBF) on food security, sustainable lifestyle & consumption and organic food in India, for which she coordinated the work package ‘food, nutrition and health’. In her work she has a particular interest in bridging nutritional and agricultural sciences with the help of social science approaches and tools such as gender-integration and in connecting ground realities of local communities to theory.
PhD Human Geography, Doctoral Degree, at the Institute of Geography, Georg-August-University Göttingen on "Changes and risks in the megaurban food system of Hyderabad/India: a Bourdieuan approach to lower middle classes`vulnerable food sovereignty" MA Global Studies – Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology, Albert-Ludgwis-University, Freiburg, Germany and University of Kwazulu Natal, Durban, South Africa BA European Studies – Social Sciences, Social Geography, Media, English, Spanish at the University Osnabrück
Center for Development Research (ZEF) Walter-Flex-Str. 3 D - 53113 Bonn, Germany Phone: +49 228 73 4031 Fax: +49 228 731889 E-mail: snischal@uni-bonn.de Web: www.zef.de
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Associated Researcher
Division/Group:
Ecology and Natural Resources Management
E-Mail:
snischal(at)uni-bonn.de