CRC-TRR 228
Envisioning the Future of Rural Africa
Latest News
Book Launch: Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya
Lecture: Towards Equitable Partnerships and Meaningful Dialogue in South-North-South Collaboration – Prof. Dr. Dorothea Kleine
New Publication: Aspirations and Weather Shocks – Evidence from Rural Zambia
Podiumsdiskussion: Afrika – Kontinent der Zukunft
New Publication: Nation-State Influence on Tourism Path Creation in Southern Africa
ECAS 2025: Deadline for Call for Panels Extended to 15 September 2024
New Publication: The Temporalities and Externalities of Ancillary Infrastructure in Large-Scale Renewable Energy Projects: Insights from the Rural Periphery
CRC-TRR Public Lecture: Serawit B. Debele
Book Launch: Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya
Practical Research Experience, Cross-Cultural Understanding and Lasting Professional Connections: Future Rural Africa Joint Seminar for Students from Kenya and Germany
Board for Gender Equality and Diversity Organizes Worshop on Enabling Women* to Overcome Obstacles and Progress in their Careers
New Publication: Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world
“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
Interview: Future Rural Africa Researcher Ndapewa Fenny Nakanyete on Completing University of Cologne & University of Namibia Dual PhD
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
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.