Read about the role of science and innovations in Africa, environmental communications in China and doctoral research conducted at ZEF in the latest ZEF news no. 33.

ZEF co-organized a one-week course program for students from the Pan African University Institute of Water and Energy Sciences (PAUWES) based in Tlemcen, Algeria. Twenty-two students from eight African countries participated in the Spring School at ZEF from March 27-April 1, 2016.

The first group of ZEF students has been visiting the International Program in Agricultural Development Studies (IPADS) at the University of Tokyo from March 11-20, 2016, for joint lectures, on-site training and exchange.

Professor Britaldo Silveira Soares Filho, from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, guest professor at ZEF, was one of eight awardees who received the Georg Forster Award from the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation in Bamberg on March 18, 2016.

Interview with Professor Kae Miyazawa, Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences of the University of Tokyo

The ZEF-led Centre of Excellence in Accra, Ghana, hosted the seventh DAAD Network Meeting of the eight DAAD-sponsored centres in Africa from March 3-5, 2016.

Best Paper Award at the Indo-German Conference on Sustainability in Chennai India for ZEF-researcher Oliver Kirui for his work on land degradation.

Land degradation is on the rise dramatically, affecting around 3.2 billion people worldwide. Every dollar invested in saving land and soils today will save us five dollars in the future. Klaus Töpfer, ZEF-director Joachim von Braun, and Dr. Stefan Schmitz (BMZ) presented the latest research insights on this issue at a press conference in Berlin on February 11, 2016.

The just released new ranking in the University of Pennsylvania “Global GO TO Think Tank Index Report 2015” ranks ZEF in excellent positions again.

The "collaborative education" between the International Program in Agricultural Development Studies (IPADS) at the University of Tokyo in Japan and ZEF has moved forward to a next step by the working visit Professor Kensuke Okada paid to ZEF over the past week.

ZEF has been conducting research on different aspects of migration and mobility since 1997. Moreover, our efforts and activities in the realm of institutional and academic capacity development in developing countries have addressed root causes of forced migration

January 2016. Mahabub Hossain, Former Executive Director of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), the largest southern NGO, and a leading development thinker passed away. ZEF has lost a great research partner, colleague, and friend.