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July 21, 2021

ZEF doctoral researcher Abdulrasheed Abdulkarim Isah granted fellowship at University of California in Berkeley, USA

ZEF doctoral researcher Abdulrasheed Abdulkarim Isah received a non-resident fellowship at the University of California in Berkeley, USA, for January – mid March 2022.

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July 16, 2021

Deforestation in Colombia: Case study on Tinigua National Natural Park

Read the latest ZEF Working Paper no 210 about the socio-environmental consequences of the Peace Agreement in Colombia

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Latest Publications

June 28, 2021

Land use mapping using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 time series in a heterogeneous landscape in Niger, Sahel

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Volume 178, August 2021, Pages 97-111

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Latest Publications

June 04, 2021

Effect of extreme weather events on child health in rural Uganda

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by Emily Injete Amondo, Alisher Mirzabaev and Emmanuel Nshakira-Rukundo, ZEF Discussion Paper no. 309

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ZEF in the press

January 21, 2021

"Es gibt nicht 'das' Patentrezept" Interview with ZEF Director Prof. Joachim von Braun

In: Unsere Kirche, Evangelischen Zeitung. January 17, 2021.

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ZEF in the press

October 19, 2020

Radioeins Interview: Bekämpfung des Hungers mit Dr. Heike Baumüller

October 17, 2020. Über die Investitionen und Maßnahmen, die erforderlich sind, um dieses Potenzial in die Realität umzusetzen, sprechen wir mit Dr. Heike Baumüller vom ZEF.

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Partner event: Rural aspirations matter

Virtual Round Table Talk by publishers of Special Issue of EJDR (33:4, July 2021)

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Stories about ZEF's Research

A story about wheat in Egypt
Achieving sustainable wheat self-sufficiency in Egypt: This research, a case study in the River Nile delta, conducted by ZEF doctoral student Ahmed Abdalla is part of the Right Livelihood College (RLC) Programme at ZEF.

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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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ZEF's Research Projects Worldwide

Overview about current research at ZEF

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In our blog-section our researchers report about their work such as projects, conferences, scientific publications, field research, talks and other milestones.