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Africa’s cities are reshaping how people access and choose food.
Urbanization improves access to diverse diets — but also drives demand for cheap, ultra-processed foods.

New paper explores challenges & policy options 👉https://bit.ly/47Y0DDm

#FoodSystems #Nutrition
November 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
📢 ZEF Public Lecture | Nov 6, 13:30 CET
Join us at ZEF Bonn for an in-person talk by Prof. Stefan Dercon (Oxford) on how to make evidence truly matter in policymaking.

☕ Coffee, tea & lively discussion to follow!
#ZEFBonn #PublicLecture #EvidenceBasedPolicy #OxfordUniversity
November 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🌿 ZEF Public Lecture | Oct 30, 13:30 CET
“Lessons from Grassroots Civil Society Action in Disaster Risk Reduction in the Indian Sundarbans”
by Prof. Dr. Farhat Naz (IIT Jodhpur / TH Köln)
📍 ZEF, Bonn
Join us for insights on climate resilience, local action & social inclusivity.
October 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
+ New Research +

Medicinal plants show how closely human health and biodiversity are intertwined🌿

A Social Ecology perspective shows community gardening, sustainable collection & shared knowledge as pathways to well-being and conservation.
Read more 👉 bit.ly/47a3Lfb
October 27, 2025 at 11:13 AM
++ New Study++

🌾👶 1 in 4 children in rural #BurkinaFaso have malaria — nearly 9 in 10 are anaemic.

🥑 Diets rich in fat & vitamin A may help reduce malaria risk.
Healthy nutrition = stronger immunity.

Read here: bit.ly/4npu8CF
October 23, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Can faith move water?

Join us for the ZEF Public Lecture
🗓️ Oct 16, 2025 | 13:30–14:30
📍 ZEF Conference Room | Hybrid
👤 Prof. Anthony Amoah (UESD, Ghana)

Learn how faith-based collaboration boosts bill payment & water conservation in Ghana 🇬🇭

Join here: bit.ly/Zoom_PL_16Oct
October 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
📢 Deportaciones masivas y estado de excepción 🇩🇴

People of Haitian descent face arbitrary detentions, raids, and violence under Abinader’s presidency (2021–2025).

Cover photo by Micely Díaz Espaillat 📸
Read the full report: bit.ly/3KDVs2g ✊💡
October 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Reflecting on yesterday’s lecture by Dr. Namukolo Covic @ ZEF:
Africa’s nutrition goals are still far from reach. Food environments, markets, and consumer behavior need transformation—and it starts with end-to-end approaches and bold, transformative leadership 🌍
September 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
🚨 Afghanistan’s natural water storage is vanishing.
Snowpacks, glaciers & groundwater are shrinking fast.

📉 Snow cover dropped from 16.1% → 10.6% in 6 years
🌊 Groundwater is nearing unsustainable levels
🍽️ 9.5M face food insecurity

🔗 bit.ly/ZEF_News51_Afghanistan
September 9, 2025 at 9:05 AM
🚨 New issue of ZEF News No. 51 is out! 🚨

"Entangled Lives: Climate, Gender & Place" dives into how climate change deepens social inequalities.

📘 Read more: bit.ly/ZEFnews_No_51_

#ClimateJustice #GenderEquality #FoodSystems #UrbanResilience #GlobalSouth
September 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
🌍 Ernährungssicherheit in Gefahr: Kriege, Spekulation & Verschwendung treiben Preise hoch – viele im Globalen Süden hungern.
Wie stoppen wir das? 🎙️Neue Podcast-Folge mit Welthungerhilfe, Matin Qaim & mehr.

🎧 bit.ly/47GKYcb - jetzt hören!
September 2, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Wrapped up Summer School on Digital Innovation in Nutritional Epidemiology at @UniBonn!
🌍
25 PhD students, 5 days of insights, collaboration & digital solutions for global nutrition.

Thanks to TRA, BIGS-DR & Dr. Rainer Wild Foundation!
🔗 More info: bit.ly/3I08p5y
September 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
💡 Insights from today’s ZEF Public Lecture by Dr. Gabriel Kallah-Dagadu on optimizing sustainable diets for Ghanaian populations using RODAM study data.

Plant-forward, culturally tailored and climate-smart.

🔗 bit.ly/45OUkQk

#ZEF #SustainableDiets #RODAMStudy
August 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
📢 Save the Date!
Public Lecture @ ZEF 🌍

🗓️ Aug 27, 2025 | 09:00 CEST
👤 Dr. Gabriel Kallah-Dagadu (Univ. of Ghana)
🗣️ Sustainable diets through optimization modelling
Focus: Ghanaian diets, health & climate.

🔗 bit.ly/478QDra
August 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
🌍 New Article: "Negotiating Green Urbanism"

How do global greening agendas play out in Nairobi's informal settlements?

🔹 State-led greening deepens inequality
🔹 Grassroots actors reclaim space through care & resistance
🔹 Urban sustainability is local, political & contested

📖Read: bit.ly/4fMBopV
August 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
New Research 📊🌍

Afghanistan faces worsening droughts (1974–2023). Our study using SPI & SPEI reveals:
🔹 More severe, frequent, prolonged droughts
🔹 Regional hotspots
🔹 Climate drivers: temp, evapotranspiration

Read more 👉 bit.ly/3Jn8zEn

#ClimateChange #Drought
August 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🧠 „Wissenschaft nimmt ihren Ausgangspunkt im sich-Wundern“ – J. von Braun

Was trennt Wissenschaft von Pseudowissenschaft? Wie passt Glaube dazu?

Ein lesenswertes Interview mit dem Präsidenten der Päpstlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

🔗 bit.ly/46XjLBw
August 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
New Article:

"Governing the Ungovernable"
Sarkar & Sarkar (2025) analyze groundwater governance in India since the 1970s.

Keywords:
– Fragmented regulation
– Weak implementation
– Demand-side reform needed

🔗 bit.ly/4oGCc3J
#WaterPolicy #Groundwater #India
August 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
📢 New article:
"Deep learning-based extraction of Kenya’s historical road network from topographic maps"

A deep learning approach applied to 500+ maps (1950s–1980s) yields 56,000+ km of digitized roads. Avg. F1 score: 0.84.

🔗 Read: bit.ly/46WJf1S
August 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
++ New study ++

How does electrification reshape labor in rural Ethiopia? 🔌

Findings:
✔️ More off-farm work for women
✔️ Less unpaid/farm work for adults
✔️ Girls fetch less water, boys do more farm work

📄 bit.ly/4mcBZnl
August 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
🌿 New Blog Post by Nicolas Lara-Rodriguez (ZEF)!

Can rural communities lead conservation & sustainability? In Colombia’s Peasant Reserve Zones, they already are.
Peasants in Venecia are protecting forests & transitioning to agroecology.

📖 Read more: blog.zef.de?p=9305
August 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
🌿 Kenya’s sacred Kaya forests face threats despite UNESCO status. Community-led conservation and sustainable livelihoods are key.

📖 Read more: blog.zef.de/?p=9284

#Conservation #Kenya #CulturalHeritage
August 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
🎙️ New Interview!

We spoke with Dr. Muthio Nzau about her research on sacred landscapes in Coastal Kenya and her stay in Bonn.
Her work is part of a project on UNESCO World Heritage sites as living cultural landscapes in Kenya & Ethiopia.

👉 bit.ly/Interview_MuthioNzau
August 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🎙️ New Interview!

Dr. Eric M. Kioko (Kenyatta University) shares insights on cultural heritage as a living, evolving practice.

🌍 Joint project with Dilla University, hosted at ZEF & funded by Volkswagen Foundation.

📺 Watch: bit.ly/Interview_EricMKioko
🔗 Info: bit.ly/UNESCO_Heritage_Project
August 4, 2025 at 10:47 AM
🌍 Ernteausfälle, steigende Risiken:

Obstbauer Roland Schmitz-Hübsch und Agrarökonom Matin Qaim im Handelsblatt Podcast über Ernährung und Klimawandel.

🎧 Jetzt hören: bit.ly/41fqliY

#Klimawandel #Ernährung #Landwirtschaft
July 31, 2025 at 11:09 AM