ZEF Former Project List

CLIMAFRI - Implementing CLIMate-sensitive Adaptation strategies to reduce Flood RIsk in the transboundary Lower Mono River catchment in Togo and Benin

CoCE - COnservation and use of wild populations of Coffea arabica in the montane rainforests of Ethiopia

CODOC - Cooperation on Doctoral Education between Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe

Communications Technology in Low-income Countries

Conservation Auctions: Application and Challenges in Developing Countries

Contested Knowledge: Opportunities and Risks of Educational Development in Post-Conflict Situations

Conversion of Knowledge in post-Soviet Agriculture: The Impact of Local Governance on the Knowledge Management of Agricultural Actors in Tajikistan

Cooperation project WASCAL-PAUWES for capacity building

Cooperation Water-Energy with PAUWES–ZEF–UNU–ITT / Phase 2

Crossroads Asia

Decentralization and Poverty

Determinants and effects of alternative institutions for natural resource management in developing countries

Doctoral Programme for Environmental Planning at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Economic and Ecological Restructuring of Land- and Water Use in the Region Khorezm (Uzbekistan)

Economic valuation of indigenous breeds and how the loss of animal genetic resources effects the welfare of local populations

Economics of Agricultural Biotechnology

ELD - Economics of Land Degradation

ELI - European Land Use Institute

EMD - The Efficiency of Micro-Development. Theoretical Modeling and Empirical Studies

Enhancing Women’s Assets to Manage Risk under Climate Change: Potential for Group-Based Approaches

EntoNUTRI: Development and implementation of insect-based products to enhance food and nutritional security in sub-Saharan Africa

Environmental and food safety standards

Environmental and social labeling, incl. child labor

Environmental management options and delivery mechanisms to reduce malaria transmission in Uganda

Epistemic Cultures and Innovation Diffusion in Post-Soviet Southern Caucasus and Central Asia: Pilot Study: Agricultural Knowledge Systems in Georgia and Tajikistan

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

Facilitating the widespread adoption of conservation agriculture in maize-based systems in Eastern and Southern Africa

FoodSecure

Forest cover mapping in Central Asia

Forests in the global bioeconomy: developing multi-scale policy scenarios

FSS │ Project - Implementation of food security criteria within biomass sustainability standards

German-Pakistani Research Collaboration and Academic Capacity Building Programme

Globalisation of Knowledge

Glowa Volta - Sustainable Water Use under Changing Land Use, Rainfall Reliability, and Water Demands in the Volta Basin

Governance and Sustainability in the Straits of Malacca

GRPI - Genetic Resources Policy Initiative: strengthening capacity to analyze national options

Health impact of water access in urban China and India

HEALTHCAP - Health Research Capacity and Water-Releated Diseases: Improving Risk Assessment Strategies for Public Health Care in Uzbekistan

ICCWaDS - International Center for Comparative Water and Development Studies

Improved application strategies for entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) as biological control agents in integrated pest management (IPM)

Improving Irrigation Water Use in the Punjab Province of Pakistan by Raising Flexibility and Integrating Surface and Groundwater Resources

Increased smallholder farmer's productivity by efficient use and application of environmental friendly insect pests control strategies

InoCottonGROW - Innovative Impulses Reducing the Water Footprint of the Global Cotton-Textile Industry towards the UN-Sustainable Development Goals

Integrated Water Governance Support System

Integrating governance and modeling

ITWRM - Integrated, Transboundary Water Resource Management

IWRM Ghana - Integrated Water Resources Management, Knowledge and Technology Transfer in the Densu River Basin, Ghana

IWRM South Africa - Integrated Water Resources Management. Pilot project for Middle Olifants sub-basin of South Africa with technology transfer through a francise concept

Knowledge Governance

Local Governance and Statehood in the Amu Darya Borderlands

Local Knowledge and the Digital Divide

MARGIP - Marginality Reduction for enhanced Investments for and with the poorest

MOSA - Integrated water resources management: Middle Olifants South Africa

NeWATER - New Approaches to Adaptive Water Management under Uncertainty

NOURICITY - Partnerships for Healthy Diets and Nutrition in Urban African Food Systems - Evidence and Strategies

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

Online Development Studies and Research Community (ODSRC)

Opportunities for climate change mitigation and adaptation through afforestation of degraded lands in Central Asia

PASAD - Policy Analysis for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe and Southern Africa

Political Economy of Economic & Institutional Reform

ProciNut (Production and Processing of Edible Insects for Improved Nutrition) - Innovative Approaches to process Local Food in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia

PROIntensAfrica

RARSUS - Risk Assessment and Adaptation Strategies for Sustainable Urban Resource Supply in Sub-Saharan Africa

Re-thinking water storage for climate change adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa

RegioPower - A regional IT-based platform for bringing resource needs and land-based resource production together

Research and transfer network on sustainable public procurement in North Rhine-Westphalia

Role of biological sources for the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in tropical soils

Seaport efficiency, trade policy, and agricultural export capacity

Secondary Forests and Fallow Vegetation in the Agricultural Landscape of the Eastern Amazon Region, Brazil

Shaping environmental policies for sustainable tropical forest bioeconomies

Smallholders in the Amazon: Interaction between Ecosystem and Social Systems in the Utilisation and Protection of Tropical Rainforests

SMWA - Social Management of Water in Afghanistan (Kunduz River Basin Programme)

State Failure and Local Governance in Somalia and Afghanistan

Strengthening Citrus production systems through the introduction of IPM measure

STRIVE – Sustainable TRade and InnoVation transfer in the bioEconomy: From National Strategies to Global Sustainable Development Goals

STRIVER - Strategy and methodology for improved IWRM - An integrated interdisciplinary assessment in four twinning river basins

The Economics of the Sahel Great Green Wall

The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Global, Basin, and local Case Studies of Resource Use Efficiency under Growing Natural Resource Scarcity

TIGA - Ex-ante technology assessment and farm household segmentation for inclusive poverty reduction and sustainable productivity growth in agriculture

Trade and Agricultural Policy Distortions in Developing Countries

WABES - Supporting IPBES capacity building in West Africa

WASCAL - West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use

Water Resources Institutions and Human Health: Contested Institutional Terrain of Water-and Vector-borne Diseases in Ahmedabad City, India

Water, Politics and Development - a research programme initiative

Waterfront Metropolis Abidjan. Between everyday urbanity, spontaneous urbanisation, town planning and real estate development

WATSAN-AGRICULTURE: Guiding pro-poor investments in the nexus among domestic water quality and quantity, sanitation and hygiene, and agriculture from the bottom-up

WESA: Water and Energy Security for Africa

WISDOM - Water-related Information System for the Sustainable Development of the Mekong Delta

Former ZEF-projects

Research & Capacity Development

Doctoral Program

Publications