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March 30, 2020

COVID-19: Impacts on food trade - Is global food security at risk?

Blog post by ZEF researchers Lukas Kornher and Tekalign G. Sakketa about the effects of COVID-19 on global food supply.

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March 26, 2020

Moving from water problems to water solutions

Read two contributions for World Water Day 2020 by ZEF colleague and IWMI water expert Luna Bharati.

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Latest Publications

March 11, 2020

What drives antibiotic use in the community? A systematic review of determinants in the human outpatient sector

by Dennis Schmiege, Mariele Evers, Thomas Kistemann and Timo Falkenberg (International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health)

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Latest Publications

March 05, 2020

How land-use dynamics and surface-water systems interactions influence water-related infectious diseases

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This systematic review reveals inter-linkages between LULC (land-use and land cover) and WRID (water-related infectious diseases).

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ZEF in the press

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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ZEF in the press

December 11, 2019

Start-ups in Silicon Savannah

Article by Heike Baumüller on the digitalization of African agriculture in the new issue of iz3w (in German).

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16 Mar 2020
March 16, 2020 | 11:16 h - April 19, 2020 | 20:16 h
Events @ ZEF have been cancelled until further notice.

Following public health regulations on the COVID-19 pandemic ZEF has cancelled all its "live" events until further notice. We will keep you updated on virtual events.

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Stories and news from the Doctoral Program

"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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Sustainability of ecological organic agriculture in Kenya
Doctoral research @ ZEF by Juliet Wanjiku Kamau

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Latest news about our research

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