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Future Rural Africa Researchers Awarded Cologne International Forum Innovative Tandem Project Grant

The University of Cologne’s International Forum is awarding five project grants (€ 15,000 each) annually for project-related innovative tandem collaborations between University of Cologne-based academics ...
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Video Lecture: Kiotalel’s Kin – Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in Kenya’s Western Highlands

By Prof. David Anderson (CRC Project A02 Past Futures) In this presentation given at the University in Nairobi in late 2023, David Anderson focuses on ...
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Video: Collective Punishment as Colonial Policing – A Conversation between David Anderson and Laleh Khalili

In this conversation, Prof. Laleh Khalili (Exeter; author of Time in the Shadows) and Prof. David Anderson (Future Rural Africa Project A02 Past Futures) discuss ...
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Kilombero Valley in Tanzania

Francis Ching’ota and Jonathan Jackson on Broadening Participation in Research Through Building Sustainable Relationships and Disseminating Knowledge

In their latest publication titled “Maono ya Bonde la Kilombero, Tanzania: Historia za Maendeleo Yake”, Francis Ching’ota, an Assistant Lecturer from the National Institute of ...
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CRC-TRR Public Lecture: Asebe Debelo

Mon | December 18, 2023 | 16:00 – 17:30  CET We are excited for the next volume of the Future Rural Africa Public Lectures Series. ...
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Publication: Regional Resilience and Social-Ecological Systems – the Impact of COVID-19 on Community Conservation in Namibia

By Linus Kalvelage, Project C01 Future in Chains and Lars Lüder, University of Cologne. ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic severely affected wildlife areas in Namibia, where ...
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Farming in Kenya

Publication: Cooperative membership and exposure to role models – Implications for income and asset aspirations

By Martin-Paul Jr. Tabe-Ojong, Thomas Heckelei, Kathy Baylis of CRC-TRR Future Rural Africa Project B01 “Invasive Futures” and Sebastian Rasch (University of Bonn). Abstract Although ...
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Upcoming Events Promoting Gender Equality and Diversity at the Universities of Bonn and Cologne

University of Bonn: Workshop Discussions A total of six workshop discussions will take place as part of the project. They are aimed at all students, ...
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CRC Future Rural Africa at Kenya @60 Conference

26 – 27 October 2023 Prof. Kennedy Mkutu of Project B03 Violent Futures is a contributor in the “Kenya @60 Conference” at USIU-Africa in Nairobi. ...
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Publication: Suspension as Politics – A Stadium and its Ruins in Northwest Kenya

By Uroš Kovač, Project B04 Projecting Futures. ABSTRACT From mega-projects to small-scale repairs, many construction projects in Kenya are characterised by delays and false starts. ...
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[DE] Elefanten Kennen Keine Grenzen: Teilprojekt A04 “Future Conservation” & “ERC Rewilding the Anthropocene” im Kölner Unimagazin

Unser Teilprojekt A04 Future Conservation befasst sich in erster Linie mit Umweltschutz im südlichen und östlichen Afrika und erforscht die unterschiedlichen Ansätze, auf denen Naturschutz ...
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Publication: Making Heterogeneous Infrastructure Futures in and Beyond the Global South

By Mary Lawhon, Alexander Follmann, Boris Braun, Natasha Cornea, Clemens Greiner (CRC Project C02 Energy Futures), Prince Guma, Timos Karpouzoglou, Javier Revilla Diez (CRC Project ...
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Publication: “Little Dubai” in the crossfire – trade corridor dynamics and ethno-territorial conflict in the Kenyan–Ethiopian border town Moyale

By Katrin Sowa, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne. ABSTRACT Against the promise that new trade corridors in Africa lead to political ...
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Research Initiative 2023: Sharing a Planet In Peril

The interrelated crises associated with Global Environmental Change (GEC) – including biodiversity loss, climate change and the depletion of soils and waters – are mounting ...
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The Promises and Perils of Infrastructure – Envisioning Desirable Futures in the Global South: Future Rural Africa at DKG ’23

The German Geography Association “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie (DGfG)” and the Institutes of Physical Geography and Institute of Human Geography at Frankfurt University are conducting ...
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