Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF): Recent submissions
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A New Paradigm for Plant Nutrition: Food Systems Summit Brief prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit February 10, 2021
Dobermann, Achim; Bruulsema, Tom; Cakmak, Ismail; Gerard, Bruno; Majumdar, Kaushik; McLaughlin, Michael; Reidsma, Pytrik; Vanlauwe, Bernard; Wollenberg, Lini; Zhang, Fusuo; Zhang, Xin (2021-02-10)The coming 10-20 years will be most critical for making the transition to a global food system in which all stakeholders look at food and nutrients in a holistic manner, including their hidden environmental, health and ... -
Food Security Standard: Principles, Criteria and Indicators
Gamba, Liliana; Beuchelt, Tina; Schneider, Rafaël (2020-06)International demand for agricultural commodities is growing due to population growth, changes in consumption patterns and the current shift from petroleum-based to bio-based economies. This can have adverse effects, ... -
A rights-based food security principle for biomass sustainability standards and certification systems
Mohr, Anna; Beuchelt, Tina; Schneider, Rafaël; Virchow, Detlef (2015-11)With the shift from petroleum-based to biomass-based economies, global biomass demand and trade is growing. This trend could become a threat to food security. Though rising concerns about sustainability aspects have ... -
Food Security Standard (FSS) National Food Security Assessment (NaFSA) tool 1.1
Voigt, Holm; Beuchelt, Tina; Schneider, Rafaël; Gamba, Liliana (2020-04-01)The Food Security Standard (FSS) provides practicable and measurable criteria and tools to ensure the Right to Food on sustainably certified agricultural production sites. The National Food Security Assessment (NaFSA) tool ... -
Beyond kinship and tribe: New forms of solidarity and interest representation in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan
Kandiwal, Wali Mohammad (2016-12)In this paper, I show that the establishment of unauthorized settlements on government land in the newly urbanizing peripheries of Jalalabad – the second-fastest growing city of Afghanistan – corresponded with the emergence ... -
Territory, border, infrastructure: Imagining and crafting national borderlands in twentieth century China
Kinzley, Judd; Joniak-Lüthi, Agnieszka (2016-12) -
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Boundaries and Identities: The Case of Gilgit-Baltistan
Dad, Aziz Ali (2016-06)The main argument of the paper is that the absence of Gilgit-Baltistan in the power dispensation and state structure of Pakistan has created a power vacuum in the society, which is gradually filled by sectarian forces, ... -
China Kazakhs' emigration to Kazakhstan from a modernity perspective
Shanatibieke, Mayinu (2016-04)This paper discusses the current situation of China Kazakhs' emigration to Kazakhstan from a modernity perspective. My aim is to rethink modernity in the Chinese context and its impact on Kazakhs in Xinjiang, to discuss ... -
Reflections on Migration Dynamics in Northern Ghana from the ‘Crossroads Perspective’
Adaawen, Stephen (2016-02)The paper analyses mobility patterns in Northern Ghana while reflecting also on my ‘positionality’ as researcher from the area thus critically analysing mobility patterns and processes of negotiating social boundaries and ... -
Not Quite Home or Alone: A Conversation on Belonging in a Digital Age
Bier, Mareike; Amoo-Adare, Epifania (2016-02)This paper is the product of conversations we have had over a significant period of time about the meaning of belonging in a digital age. It began as a series of personal answers to the question: “Where would you consider ... -
‘Functional’ governance as an alternative to ‘territorial’ governance? The case of the Kyrgyz irrigation sector and the implementation of Water User Associations (WUAs)
Schmitt, Florian (2015-08)International development organizations regard the concept of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) as the universal model for participatory water governance and thereby globally promote the installation of so called ... -
Vartan bhanji-exchange practices and social (im-)mobility: Exploring the coping strategies of low-income households of different biraderis in rural Punjab
Nasir, Aftab; Mielke, Katja (2015-07)This paper assesses whether vartan bhanji exchange practices are a boon or a burden, an enabling or disabling factor, a pass or an impasse for social mobility of the poor households of biraderis living in rural areas of ... -
Mobility and Urban Conflict: A Study of Lyari, Karachi
Kirmani, Nida (2015-06)This paper […] focuses more closely on the transregional impacts of conflicts on local residents, most of whom are not themselves personally involved in these conflicts. For young Baloch men struggling to survive within ... -
Off the Grid: Environmental Degradation and Citizenship at the Margins
Harms, Arne (2015-05)In this paper I have presented some preliminary thoughts on political repercussions of environmental degradations on the margins. In order to do that I have embraced two approaches derived from political theory. First, I ... -
Uzbekistan – A Region of World Society (?) Variants of Differentiation in Agricultural Resources Governance
Hornidge, Anna-Katharina; Van Assche, Kristof; Shtaltovna, Anastasiya (2015-04)This article studies the layered coexistence and mutual shaping of three forms of differentiation (functional, segmentary, hierarchical) in rural Uzbekistan, a region of world society that, since 1991, is undergoing ... -
Spatialities of Knowledge in the Neoliberal World Academy: Theory, Practice and 21st Century Legacies of Area Studies
Jackson, Peter A. (2015-04)In order to develop adequate understandings and theories of global modernity it is essential to overcome the intellectual hindrances of Euro-Amerocentrism, which is both an intellectual legacy of imperialism and a very ... -
Strategic Positioning and the Reproduction of Inequality: The case of the Johari Shauka of the Kumaon Himalaya, India
Benz, Andreas (2014-11)This paper is concerned with socio-economic inequalities and their (re-)production, empirically inquired for the particular case of the upper Gori valley in the Kumaon Himalaya of India. The strand of so-called reproduction ... -
From Uyghurs to Kashgaris (and back?): Migration and Cross-Border Interactions Between Xinjiang and Pakistan
Rippa, Alessandro (2014-10)China and Pakistan share a common border, formally established in 1963, and a close friendship which, to a certain extent, is a direct consequence of that agreement. Somewhat surprisingly the two countries managed to ... -
Social Media as a Tool for Transparency and Good Governance in the Government of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Hussain, Yasir (2014-10)This article focuses on a social media initiative of the Chief Secretary of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) using the popular social network platform Facebook as a tool to enhance E-Government services in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), a ...