Gideon Tups
© Gideon Tups
Dr. Gideon Tups
ORCID iD 0000-0003-4362-4772
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Affiliations
  • BioSummit – Bioeconomy in Dialogue
Research topics
  • Bioeconomy
  • Food Systems Transformation
  • Economic Geography
Gideon Tups is a Senior Researcher in the ZEF/IACGB project "BioSummit – Bioeconomy in Dialogue." He earned his PhD in Economic Geography within the CRC Future Rural Africa at the University of Cologne’s Geography Department, focusing his research on agrarian value chains, rural development, and large-scale infrastructure. Before joining ZEF, Dr. Tups gained extensive experience as Policy Advisor in the development sector at GIZ, where he worked on food systems transformation, fertilizer markets, and biotechnology. His broader research expertise encompasses various contemporary themes, including digitalization in agriculture, uneven development, financialization, Global Production Networks/Global Value Chains, and the concept of future-making.
Selected publications

Tups, G., & Matejcek, A. (2026). Planning smart, working hard: unveiling the ‘hidden’ labour behind digital connectivity in Tanzanian agriculture. Territory, Politics, Governance, 14(2) 224-243. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2025.2504968

Kalvelage, L., & Tups, G. (2024). Friendshoring in global production networks: state-orchestrated coupling amid geopolitical uncertainty. ZFW–Advances in Economic Geography, 68(3-4), 151-166. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2024-0042

Tups, G., Sakala, E. N., & Dannenberg, P. (2024). Hope and path development in ‘left-behind’ places–a Southern perspective. Regional Studies, 58(6), 1219-1236. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2235396

Tups, G., Mbunda, R., Ndunguru, M., & Dannenberg, P. (2024). Multiple Krisen und Globale Produktionsnetzwerke: Neue Sojapartnerschaften zwischen China und Tansania im Rahmen der Belt and Road Initiative. Standort, 48(1), 2-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00548-024-00907-z

Tups, G., & Dannenberg, P. (2023). Supplying lead firms, intangible assets and power in global value chains: explaining governance in the fertilizer chain. Global Networks, 23(4), 772-791. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12431

Gideon Tups
© Gideon Tups
Dr. Gideon Tups

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