Previous projects since 2011


  • DFG Research Unit FOR2432 - India
    Social-Ecological Systems in the Indian Rural-Urban Interface: Functions, Scales, and Dynamics of Transition
    DFG (2016 - 2022)
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  • Di­ver­si­ty Turn in Land Use Sci­ence
    This project studied the importance of social diversity for sustainable land use innovations using the example of vanilla farming in Madagascar
    Volkswagen Foundation (2016 - 2021)
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  • BMZ Greenhouse gases - Kenya
    In situ assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from cattle production systems in East Africa
    BMZ (2015-2018)
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  • UrbanFoodPlus - Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Mali
    African-German partnership to enhance resource use efficiency and improve food security in urban and peri-urban agriculture of West African cities
    BMBF (2013-2018)
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  • WATERCOPE - China, Mongolia
    Supporting national research capacity and policy development to cope with dwindling water resources and intensifying land use in the transborder Altay-Dzungarian region of Mongolia and China.
    IFAD (2011-2016)
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  • SuLaMa - Madagascar
    Participatory research to support sustainable land management on the Mahafaly Plateau in southwestern Madagascar
    BMBF (2011 - 2015)
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