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ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · 2d

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

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ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · 9d

📢 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 ✊💡

ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · 21d

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 🌍

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ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Sep 9

🚨 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

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ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 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

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ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Sep 2

🌍 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!

ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Sep 1

Wrapped up Summer School on Digital Innovation in Nutritional Epidemiology at @UniBonn!
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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

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ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Aug 27

💡 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

ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Aug 21

📢 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

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ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Aug 20

🌍 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

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ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

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ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Aug 19

🧠 „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

ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

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ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Aug 18

📢 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

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ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Aug 12

++ 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

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ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Aug 11

🌿 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

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ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Aug 6

🌿 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

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ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Aug 5

🎙️ 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

ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Aug 4

🎙️ 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

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ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Jul 31

🌍 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

ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Jul 31

🚨 New Research Alert

Can low-carb diets improve blood sugar control in high-risk groups?

🧪 A study of ~5,900 Ghanaian adults (RODAM) explored links between low-carb diets, HbA1c & diabetes complications.

📉 Surprising results!

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3UF6F4m

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ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Jul 30

🌱 Negotiating green urbanism by Valentine Opanga

What does sustainability look like in Nairobi’s informal settlements? From urban farming to resistance, Korogocho & Pumwani-Majengo offer a powerful rethinking💪🏾🌍

🔗 Read: bit.ly/4l9O2At

#GreenUrbanism #UrbanJustice

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ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Jul 23

🌿 Agroecology in Africa: Lessons from Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal & Uganda

Study shows strong NGO-led efforts with clear environmental gains—but barriers like weak policy support, funding gaps & limited local ownership remain.

👉 bit.ly/ZEFWP_247

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ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Jul 23

🌾 Join us for a ZEF Public Lecture (July 31, 13:30–14:30)!

Dr. Bikash Ranjan Parida shares how remote sensing & ML improve crop yield modelling & food security in India’s Indo-Gangetic Plain.

📍 ZEF & Hybrid: bit.ly/4kO69f3

ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · Jul 16

📘 New book out: Gender-Transformative Approaches for Climate Change Adaptation (Springer, 2025)

Edited by Anindita Sarkar & Nairwita Bandyopadhyay

Focuses on gender, power, and climate policy in the Global South!

➡️bit.ly/44PhpSx

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