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Centre for Development Research (ZEF)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Center for Development Research (ZEF) was founded in 1995 and started its actual research activities in 1997. ZEF's research aims at finding solutions to global development issues.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Diversifying agriculture for balanced nutrition through fruits and vegetables in multi-storey cropping systems
- ERA-WoodWisdom: REGIOPOWER - IT-based platform for the merging of regional biomass requirements. Subproject 1: development of a regional commodity exchange for woody biomass
- GlobE - Enhancing food security in Africa through increased system productivity: the transformation of food based value chains in biomass-based value-added networks
- GlobE: BiomassWeb
- Importance of biological sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) levels in tropical soils
- Protection and exploitation of wild populations of Coffea arabica in the mountain rain forests of Ethiopia
- Research Group: Transformation and Sustainability Governance in South American Bioeconomies. Part 1 (Economics)
- Smallholders in the Amazon region: correlation between ecosystem and social system in use and protection of tropical forests
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 2.3 Adapting to water scarcity, uncertainty, and the effect of changing climate patterns – coping strategies and their impacts
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 2.6 Status of biodiversity as Indicator for Ecosystem Resilience in West Africa
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 3.2 Economic Evaluation of Farming Systems
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 3.3 Farmers´ priorities and perceptions of climate change and the evaluation of local adaptation strategies
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 4.1 Population dynamics
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 4.2 Local Markets
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 4.3 Income from Carbon Markets
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 4.4 Politics of Adaptation
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 5.2 Economic Evaluation of Risk Management Strategies
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 6.1 Development of a spatially explicit framework for land use impact modeling based on trade-off- and multi criteria analysis
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 6.2 Agent-based models for integrated assessment
Coordinated collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- Development of conservation agriculture technologies for adoption by smallholders in Central Asia
- Facilitating the widespread adoption of conservation agriculture (CA) in maize-based systems in Eastern and Southern Africa
- Improving Water Productivity of Crop-Livestock Systems of Sub-Saharan Africa
- Planning and evaluating ensembles of small, multi-purpose reservoirs for the improvement of smallholder livelihooods and food security: tools and procedures
- Quantitative political-economic modelling agricultural decision-making processes on the example of European agricultural policy in the context of EU enlargement
- Re-thinking water storage for climate change adaptation for sub-Saharan Africa (CLIMATE CHANGE)
- The capacity of agriculture to adjust to economic crisis and environmental shocks in Thailand and Vietnam
- The Economics of Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought: Towards an integrated global assessment of Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought
- Utilization of wild relatives of wheat in developing salinity tolerant winter wheat with improved quality for Central Asia
Contact
Centre for Development Research
(ZEF)
Walter-Flex-Str. 3
D-53113 Bonn
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 228 / 73-19 71
Fax: :+49 (0) 228 / 73-19 72
Email: presse.zef(@)uni-bonn.de
