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Reviving a Ghost Dam: The Politics and Promise of Tanzania’s Rufiji River Basin

In this newly published article, Emma Minja and Detlef Müller-Mahn (Project C03 Green Futures) explore the century-long history and politics of the Stiegler’s Gorge (now …

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Rethinking Foot-and-Mouth Disease: How Botswana’s History Challenges Colonial Views of Animal Health

This publication examines how understandings of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Botswana during the 1960s–70s were shaped by colonial and postcolonial contexts, showing how local veterinary ...
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New Study Reveals How Roads and Education Shape Community Visions for a Nature-Positive Future

This study by Judith K. Musa, Vincent Moseti and Lisa Biber-Freudenberger (Project A05 “Future Roads”) investigates how road infrastructure influences local communities’ sense of agency ...
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Transatlantic Tandem Talks: Future-Ready Food Systems? Sustainability and Resilience in Times of Crises

Wed | October 29th, 2025 | 17:00 (CET) With Peter Dannenberg (Project C01 “Future in Chains”) and Angela Bedard-Haughn (University of Saskatchewan). As the current ...
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Methodologies of Future-Making: Ethnographic Inquiry Through Play and Landscape in Marginalized Contexts

This study by Saymore Ngonidzashe Kativu (German Institute of Development and Sustainability, IDOS & Project B05 “Science Futures”), Glory Ernest Mella (Sokoine University), Castrow Muunda ...
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