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July 07, 2020

Palm trees most abundant in American rainforests

Palm trees are iconic tropical forest plants. There are over 2,500 palm species and many are used by humans for food, shelter, medicine, and crafts. The proportion of palm trees is also an important factor to calculate…

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June 24, 2020

Spatially-explicit footprints of agricultural commodities: Mapping carbon emissions embodied in Brazil's soy exports

First study providing estimate of greenhouse gas emissions across Brazil's entire soy sector with such a high level of detail.

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June 22, 2020

University of Bonn's TRA6 funding another ZEF project on how Covid-19 affects Ethiopia

Research by ZEF senior researcher Dr. Girma Kelboro Mensuro in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Detlef Müller-Mahn/Department of Geography of the University of Bonn.

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June 03, 2020

Orientation shift? Understanding the 'Third Mission' of the University in Malaysia's Science System

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ZEF Working Paper no. 193 by Farah Purwaningrum, Azmil Tayeb, Siti Rahyla Rahmat and Anna-Katharina Hornidge

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April 21, 2020

Podcast: The boom and burst of desert locust in Northeast Africa

Listen to the Interview of ZEF Director Prof. Borgemeister with Future Rural Africa

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February 10, 2020

"Africa: Calls for Transparency Over Marked Increase in Land Deals"

in: The Good Men Project. February 9, 2020. "An international coalition of researchers and NGOs have released the world’s largest public database of international land deals, reports the Global Development blog of The…

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How urban and rural spaces in Africa are interlinked
Interview with Mekdim Dereje Regassa, a junior researcher from Ethiopia who writes his doctoral thesis at ZEF.

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"As scientists in Afghanistan we face many challenges".
Interview with ZEF alumnus Dr. Fazlullah Akhtar

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Food security and dietary preferences
Interview with ZEF doctoral researcher Till Ludwig about his research in India, which focuses on dietary consumption choices as effects of food production, markets and preferences.

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Women's power in the Middle East: Syrian women engaging in civil society organizations
ZEF junior researcher Dima Al-Munajed writes about her experiences during her field research in Beirut, Lebanon, on the changing engagement of Syrian refugee women in civil society organizations in host countries such as Lebanon.

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Marginality in urban India
ZEF doctoral student Amit Kumar has been conducting field research in the slums of Mumbai for his research on "Marginality at the interface of contemporary development processes in urban India”. His research was funded by DAAD.

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