Gideon Tups, Richard Mbunda, Moses Ndunguru & Peter DannenbergĀ Receive Best Paper Award

Gideon Tups, Richard Mbunda, Moses Ndunguru and Peter Dannenberg (Project C01 “Future in Chains”) have recently been awarded the Best Paper Award by the Standort Journal for Applied Geography. The authors received the award during the Geography Connect Convention in Osnabrück for their research on Multiple crises and global production networks: new soy partnerships between China and Tanzania under the Belt and Road Initiative. The article examines China’s growing soybean trade with Tanzania through the Belt and Road Initiative. The authors argue that global crises have pushed China to seek new African suppliers, while Tanzania sees this as an opportunity to transform its agricultural sector.

4 people posing for a group photo
Peter Dannenberg and Gideon Tups (middle; left to right) receiving the award on behalf of the authors.

The article is based on research undertaken in our sub-project C01 “Future in Chains” and features Future Rural Africa researchers from the universities of Cologne, Dar es Salaam and Mzumbe University.



Reference

Tups, G., Mbunda, R., Ndunguru, M. & Dannenberg, P. 2024. Multiple Krisen und Globale Produktionsnetzwerke: Neue Sojapartnerschaften zwischen China und Tansania im Rahmen der Belt and Road Initiative. Standort 48, 2–9. DOI 

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