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Book Launch: Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya

Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya Volume Editors: Gerda Kuiper, Eric Kioko (Project C03 Green Futures), and Michael Bollig (Project ...
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Lecture: Towards Equitable Partnerships and Meaningful Dialogue in South-North-South Collaboration – Prof. Dr. Dorothea Kleine

Time: 16 October 2024 I 14:00 – 16:00 Uhr  Venue: Festsaal, Universität Bonn, Hauptgebäude, Regina-Pacis-Weg 3, 53113 Bonn Language: Englisch Registration: Please register via this ...
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New Publication: Aspirations and Weather Shocks – Evidence from Rural Zambia

By Martin C. Parlasca (Project C08 Job Futures), Christina A. Martini (Leipzig University), Maximilian Köster (Göttingen University), Marcela Ibañez (Göttingen University). Abstract Aspirations defined as future-oriented desires or ...
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Podiumsdiskussion: Afrika – Kontinent der Zukunft

28. September 2024 I 18:00 Am 27. und 28. September widmet sich die Veranstaltung “Afrika (be)leuchtet“, organisiert vom Netzwerk Politik Atelier e.V., zwei Tage lang ...
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New Publication: Nation-State Influence on Tourism Path Creation in Southern Africa

By Mfundo Mlilo (Project C01 Future in Chains), Michael Bollig (Project A04 Future Conservation) & Javier Revilla Diez (Project C01 Future in Chains). Abstract This ...
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ECAS 2025: Deadline for Call for Panels Extended to 15 September 2024

Building on the success of the previous ECAS conferences, the theme for ECAS 2025 – African, Afropolitan, and Afropean Belongings and Identities – highlights new ...
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New Publication: The Temporalities and Externalities of Ancillary Infrastructure in Large-Scale Renewable Energy Projects: Insights from the Rural Periphery

By Clemens Greiner and Britta Klagge (Project C02 Energy Futures). Abstract Ancillary infrastructures such as roads, workers camps, or water management systems are an essential ...
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CRC-TRR Public Lecture: Serawit B. Debele

Mon | October 7, 2024 | 16:00 – 17:30  CEST Since 2021, Dr. Serawit B. Debele is Leader of the Intersectionality Junior Research Group within ...
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Book Launch: Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya

The volume “Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya“, edited by Gerda Kuiper (DAAD Global Climate and Environment Center „Future African ...
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Practical Research Experience, Cross-Cultural Understanding and Lasting Professional Connections: Future Rural Africa Joint Seminar for Students from Kenya and Germany

“Normally, as researchers, when we go into the field, we go with assumptions. But this experience broke that stereotype for me, because we had to ...
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Board for Gender Equality and Diversity Organizes Worshop on Enabling Women* to Overcome Obstacles and Progress in their Careers

The Board for Gender Equality and Diversity organised a coaching series for women* researchers. The coaching aims to enable women* to overcome obstacles and progress ...
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New Publication: Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world

In a large-scale international study under leadership of the French research organizations INRAE/CNRS and the King Abdullah University in Saudi Arabia, scientists from 27 countries ...
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“Multispecies encounters in Conservation Landscapes in Southern Africa”: CRC-TRR Researchers Léa Lacan, Hauke-Peter Vehrs and Michael Bollig Edit Special Issue of Anthropology Southern Africa

Researchers Léa Lacan, Hauke-Peter Vehrs and Michael Bollig (Project A04 Future Conservation) are the editors of the recently published special issue of Anthropology Southern Africa ...
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Interview: Future Rural Africa Researcher Ndapewa Fenny Nakanyete on Completing University of Cologne & University of Namibia Dual PhD

Future Rural Africa researcher Ndapewa Fenny Nakanyete (Project C01 Future in Chains) successfully defended her PhD thesis recently. Her degree was jointly supervised and collaboratively ...
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New Publication: Justice Concerns in Large-Scale Renewable Energy Projects – a Case Study Echoing the Importance of Procedural Justice in Wind Energy Development in Kenya

By Frankline Ndi (Project C02 Energy Futures). AbstractLarge-scale renewable energy projects are increasingly being rolled out across rural Kenya, with the government playing a frontline ...
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