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Envisioning the Future of Rural Africa
Latest CRC News
Envisioning African Futures: Blog Post by Detlef Müller-Mahn and Eric Kioko
Future Rural Africa Researchers Awarded Cologne International Forum Innovative Tandem Project Grant
Video Lecture: Kiotalel’s Kin – Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in Kenya’s Western Highlands
Video: Collective Punishment as Colonial Policing – A Conversation between David Anderson and Laleh Khalili
Francis Ching’ota and Jonathan Jackson on Broadening Participation in Research Through Building Sustainable Relationships and Disseminating Knowledge
CRC-TRR Public Lecture: Asebe Debelo
Publication: Regional Resilience and Social-Ecological Systems – the Impact of COVID-19 on Community Conservation in Namibia
Publication: Cooperative membership and exposure to role models – Implications for income and asset aspirations
Upcoming Events Promoting Gender Equality and Diversity at the Universities of Bonn and Cologne
CRC Future Rural Africa at Kenya @60 Conference
Publication: Suspension as Politics – A Stadium and its Ruins in Northwest Kenya
[DE] Elefanten Kennen Keine Grenzen: Teilprojekt A04 “Future Conservation” & “ERC Rewilding the Anthropocene” im Kölner Unimagazin
Publication: Making Heterogeneous Infrastructure Futures in and Beyond the Global South
Publication: “Little Dubai” in the crossfire – trade corridor dynamics and ethno-territorial conflict in the Kenyan–Ethiopian border town Moyale
Research Initiative 2023: Sharing a Planet In Peril
Picture: Nairobi, Kenya © wollwerth, Envato Elements
Our Projects
Exploring Future Making and Social-Ecological Transformation in Rural Africa
The CRC is structured in three project groups, each organized around a bridging concept that addresses specific aspects of SET and future-making. Project group A (‘coupling’) studies the articulation between social and ecological subsystems, B (‘boundaries’) looks at the shifting zones of interaction and confrontation, and C (‘linkages’) explores cross-scalar drivers, connections and causations. Empirical research focusses on development hubs in the Kenyan Rift Valley (KRV), the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT), and the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA). The CRC builds upon profound research experience from the applicants and African partners, amplifies the unique combination of expertise at the universities of Bonn and Cologne, fosters partnerships with scholars and scientific institutions in Africa, and aims at making Bonn-Cologne one of the leading centres of innovative research in the emerging field of futures studies and social ecology in Africa.
CRC Events
We host a variety of events
We regularly organise a variety of events bringing together academics, experts, the general public and other stakeholders to discuss the results of research conducted within the CRC. The goal is to to explore innovative approaches to future-making in rural Africa and to address some of the challenges arising in the context of our research. Events include the CRC Public Lecture Series, various exhibitions aimed at transfering our research results to a wider audience and internal events such as summer schools, workshops, booklaunches, research-retreats and more.
Our Partners
CRC Members
Our Team of Experts
We are proud to have a talented and dedicated team of researchers and coordinating staff who are working together to achieve our mission. Our team of researchers is made up of individuals from a wide range of disciplines including geography, anthropology, political science, agroeconomics and soil science. The CRC emphasizes international collaboration and the contributions of team members from our African partner institutions are critical for our success.