Africa-Day at ZALF

21 October 2013.
Müncheberg Germany. Africa-Day at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
 „Food Security in the light of Climate Change and Bioenergy – Challenges for Sub-Saharan Africa“

The objectives of the Africa-Day were to

1. demonstrate interdisciplinary research knowledge and capacities at ZALF, 
2. discuss with selected experts of funding organizations and research institutions innovative research approaches and initiatives for Sub-Saharan Africa, 
3. link-up expertise and institutions for mutual exchange on research excellence and experiences and to 
4. build a network for potential collaboration on existing and further projects and activities. Future collaboration potentials will be debated and further steps of cooperation defined.

Programme (extract)

• Research Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa at ZALF: selected topics and research designs. (Stefan Sieber, ZALF)

  

• Trans-SEC „Innovating pro-poor Strategies to safeguard Food Security using Technology and Knowledge Transfer: A people-centred Approach” (Frieder Graef, ZALF) 

• ZALF : Land Scape by Hubert Wiggering

• IPTS Research Projects in Africa (Sergio Gomez, EU Commission)

• BMBF perspective of research in Africa (Ramón Kucharzak, BMBF) 

• GIZ perspective of research in Africa (Michel Bernhard, GIZ) 
• MWFK perspective of research in Africa (Claudia Herok, MWFK) 
• PTJ perspective on Trans-SEC  

Related: 

25th of October 2013. Article published in Märkische Oderzeitung (MOZ). The article is written in German.