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The PEGNet Conference (Sept. 9-10) 2019 on "Promoting social, economic and socio-political development through social protection" in Bonn was co-organized by ZEF.

From September 3 to 6, 2019, the China - German Dialog Forum took place in Qingdao and Beijing. Von Braun gave a speech on cooperation opportunities between Germany and China in climate change policy.

The IPCC presented its special report on Climate change and land in Geneva on August 8, 2019. ZEF senior researcher Alisher Mirzabaev was co-author in working group 2 on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability and attending the press conference in Geneva.

International research team shows potential of larvae to substitute other animal- or plant-derived protein sources in commercial livestock feed.

Interview with ZEF Alumnus Dr. Fazlullah Akhtar

in: Forsch, July 2019.

Launch ceremony at the University for Development Studies in Wa, Ghana, with more than 100 high-ranking participants, students and researchers from six West African countries and Germany.

Around 25 participants from nine different Brazilian and German institutions of the Graduate School “One Health and Urban Transformations – identifying risks and developing sustainable solutions” met in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in June 2019.

Von Braun participated in a three-hour hearing with German Parliamentarians on "World Food Supply and Climate Change" in Berlin on June 5, 2019.

ZEF Alumna Anna Schwachula won the Campus Prize of the University of Bremen for sustainability research with her dissertation on German science policy for research cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies in sustainability research.

Interview with ZEF Senior Researcher Dr. Oliver Kirui

Soy plantations threaten larger areas of rainforest and its habitats with the improvement of infrastructure, study shows - MapBiomas awards research of ZEF-scientists and colleagues

Bogotá/Colombia, May 10-12, 2019. In honor of his 250th birthday, Alexander von Humboldt, the great natural scientist, globetrotter and humanist, will be at the center of the 'Humboldt y las Américas' (Humboldt and the Americas), a event series by the Federal Foreign Office.

The DSSP Project, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is also contributing to occasion.

Paris - Scientists and policy makers from all across the globe met at the 7th plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) from April 28th to May 4th, 2019. More than 800 people participated at this summit which was hosted by the UNESCO in Paris.

Research at the One Health and Urban Transformation Graduate School investigates causes and counter action

Implementation of food security criteria within biomass sustainability standards

Evidence from Tanzania

An opportunistic market response

Assessing ecosystem services in northern Ghana. By Janina Kleemann.