ZEF and IFPRI co-organized a side event on Sustainable Land Management at the IFPRI 2020 Policy Consultation and Conference on Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security. The conference took place on May 15-17, 2014, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Events
ELD research results presented during a Press Conference in Berlin
Land degradation is on the rise to a dramatic extent, affecting around 3.2 billion people worldwide. Every dollar invested in saving land and soils today will save us five dollars in the future. Professor Klaus Töpfer, former Executive Director of UNEP; Professor Joachim von Braun, Director of the Center for Development Research, University of Bonn (ZEF); and Dr. Stefan Schmitz, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) presented the latest research insights on this issue at a press conference in Berlin on February 11, 2016, in the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
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ELD book is launched in Washington DC, USA during a policy workshop at IFPRI
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ELD results are widely discussed in mass media
ZEF economists receive prestigious awards at international conference in Milan
ZEF researchers won prestigious awards at the 29th tri-annual International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE) in Milan, Italy, on August 13, 2015, in which more than 1200 researchers from about 70 countries participated. They received the awards for best contributed papers in both categories of oral and visual presentations.
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ZEF and IFPRI side event on Sustainable Land Management at IFPRI 2020 Policy Consultation and Conference
Economics of Land Degradation team from ZEF, IFPRI, INRAN and EEA presented during the side-event.
Watch all the speeches of the side event here.
Land Management in Bhutan
Workshop on Assessing the Economic Benefits of Sustainable Land Management Practices in Bhutan on March 18, 2014, in Thimphu, Bhutan.
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ZEF at second Global Soil Week in Berlin
ZEF and IFPRI co-organized a session on "How to mobilize societal change to address land degradation and reduce poverty in the developing world: the role of local policy actions?" during the Second Global Soil Week in Berlin on October 30, 2013.
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ZEF-director emphasizes economic importance of soils at Eschborn Dialogue
At this year's 'Eschborn Dialogue', an event organized by GIZ on June 18-19, 2013 and attended by around 400 experts from politics, business and industry, science and civil society, ZEF-director Joachim von Braun gave a key note on 'The economic importance of soils' during a forum on 'The competition for soil: are we losing ground?'
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Dr. Ephraim Nkonya, Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute - ZEF project partner, speaks to Farming First about the Economics of Land Degradation
ZEF at UNCCD conference, April 9-12, 2013
ZEF participated in the 2nd Scientific Conference of the UNCCD (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification) on the "Economic assessment of desertification, sustainable land management and resilience of arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas", held in Bonn, April 9-12, 2013. See Website.
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ZEF co-organizes session at first Global Soil Week, November 18-22, 2012
ZEF co-organized a session on "The economics of land degradation" with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)/GIZ at the first Global Soil Week (http://www.globalsoilweek.org) held in Berlin, Germany, from November 18-22, 2012. The Global Soil Week is an annual multi-stakeholder event on sustainable soil and land management issues across the world. This year the Soil Week was initiated by the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, Germany.
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