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October 27, 2020

Serving in New Local and Global Contexts: ZEF's new strategy 2021-2030

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October 21, 2020

ZEF junior researcher Dima Al Munajed awarded this year's DAAD Prize

The Prize was awarded during the opening of the Academic Year 2020/2021 on October 19, 2020 at Bonn University.

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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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ZEF in the press

October 16, 2020

Welt ohne Hunger bis 2030? „Durchaus realistisch“ - Interview mit Prof. von Braun

in: Vatican News, October 15, 2020.

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Latest Publications

October 08, 2020

Targeting Small-Scale Irrigation Investments using Agent-Based Modeling: Case Studies in Mali and Niger

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by Olawale E. Olayide, Saadatou A. Sangare, Jawoo Koo, and Hua Xie, ZEF Discussion Paper no. 299

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October 07, 2020

An economics-based rationale for the Rawlsian social welfare program

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by Oded Stark, ZEF Discussion Paper no. 298

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Upcoming events

29 Oct 2020
October 29, 2020 | 13:30 h - 14:30 h
ZEF Colloquium by Dr. Pablo Carvajal

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29 Oct 2020
October 29, 2020 | 12:30 h - October 30, 2020 | 15:00 h
Two-day online seminar on "What does it take to end hunger and how much will it cost?"

Thursday, October 29 / Investment Costs and Policy Action Opportunities for Reaching a World Without Hunger (SDG 2) and Friday, October 30 / From Potentials to Reality: Transforming Africa’s Food Production
03 Nov 2020
November 3, 2020 | 10:00 h - 16:00 h
Symposium on One Health and Urban Transformation

Register for the online dialogue concluding the first phase of One Health research.

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Stories and news from the Doctoral Program

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