Future events

  • 2026-05-28T16:00:00+02:00
  • 2026-05-28T17:00:00+02:00
May

28

Thursday

May 28, 2026 from 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM

Multiple actors, multiple strategies: how to incentivize the uptake of sustainable land management practices by smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa

  • 2026-06-03T16:30:00+02:00
  • 2026-06-03T18:00:00+02:00
June

3

Wednesday

Jun 03, 2026 from 04:30 PM to 06:00 PM

The talk presents a panorama of surprising and rapid changes in the trader segment in domestic agrifood value chains in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This is a crucial component of transformation of value chains from traditional to transitional and early modern phases, as traders are major “change agents” in food systems. Many of the patterns observed in detailed trader surveys are at odds with conventional wisdom regarding the role of middlemen, vertical integration, outsourcing of agricultural services, etc. Observed patterns, their drivers, and emerging evidence on effects are discussed. About the speaker: Tom Reardon is one of the most cited agricultural economists worldwide. He is a University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University and Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at IFPRI. Tom is Fellow of the AAEA and Honorary Life Member of the IAAE. He resided over 20 years in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and spent more than 40 years studying those regions.

  • 2026-06-10T11:00:00+02:00
  • 2026-06-10T12:00:00+02:00
June

10

Wednesday

Jun 10, 2026 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Water is at the center of the struggle for life. Modern civilization's dependence on capitalist formations has led to the destruction of ecosystems and water-bodies as sacred entities. Rivers and mudflats, as complex hybrid networks, reveal ways of living amid a planetary crisis and can offer creative socio-ecological care practices. Drawing from extensive fieldwork in Latin America and the Caribbean, Denisse Roca-Servat, proposes to think with water as a point of departure for envisioning alternatives to the extractive-capitalist model. Becoming river, therefore, implies considering geo-hydro-social diversity, its historical foundations, its multi-scalar assemblages, and ultimately, committing to build alternative hydrosocial relations, intersecting decolonial, feminist, and cosmopolitical justice approaches.

  • 2026-06-11T13:30:00+02:00
  • 2026-06-11T15:00:00+02:00
June

11

Thursday

Jun 11, 2026 from 01:30 PM to 03:00 PM

This talk is part of the Heritage Week of the Bonn. More info here: https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/research-profile/transdisciplinary-research-areas/tra5/heritage-week-2026