ZEF-Director Joachim von Braun attended the meeting of the International Advisory Council this week in Beijing, China, kicking-off activities for the next Global Bioeconomy Summit, which will take place in autumn 2020 in Berlin.

Antoinette is a DAAD PhD Alumna who graduated in August 2015. She participated in the Ghanaian-German Center for Development Studies in Accra, which is led by ZEF.

Around 200 development policy experts attended and discussed the presentation of the Malabo Montpellier report "Mechanized" in Berlin at BMZ on February 20,2019.

Alumni Steering Committee of the DAAD African Centres of Excellence meet at ZEF to consolidate network.

ZEF hosted the 25th Jour fixe of Bonn.realis, a regional network with the overall goal of developing and advancing innovative solutions for quality and crisis communication in the future field of food security and human safety.

ZEF was listed in the categories Top Science and Technology Think Tanks,

Best University Affiliated Think Tanks and Top Energy and Resource Policy Think Tanks.

Fifteen Kenyan high-ranking representatives from Kenya's governmental, non-governmental, private and research sectors visited ZEF to discuss the country's urgent agricultural issues.

German Federal Foreign Ministry and DAAD provide funds for continuing successful German-Ghanian academic partnership.

Seven bilateral graduate schools from Germany, Latin America, Asia and Africa met in Ethiopia in December 2018 to discuss and evaluate the role of higher education in achieving the SDGs.