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Research Stories
Here you can find blog posts and first hand accounts from our researchers.
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 restructure our research questions after the first day of fieldwork. ...
19. August 2024
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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 structured by the University of Cologne and University of Namibia ...
13. August 2024
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Wawili Toolbox Entry 6: Contested Roles and Expectations
The arrival at Mt. Paka and life among the pastoral community is something that will be explored below. Of course, in retrospect, many experiences appear in a new light when you know the story has ...
11. June 2024
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Short Film: The Southern Buffalo Fence
By Wisse van Engelen (Project A04 Future Conservation). Disease transmission is an often overlooked form of human-wildlife conflict, yet animal diseases and veterinary interventions often mediate human-wildlife relations. As part of my PhD project, I ...
6. June 2024
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UNAM Students gain hands-on experience during field practical in Namibia with scientists from project A01 “Future Carbon Storage”
By Ezequiel Fabiano, Katharina Stein, Julian Krausen and Anja Linstädter (Future Rural Africa Project C01 “Future Carbon Storage”). After ecological fieldwork in southern Zambia, a team of researchers from project A01 “Future Carbon Storage” at ...
29. April 2024
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