Scenarios for southwestern Ethiopia
By Jan Hanspach In the previous posts, Joern reported about our outreach tour that we went on in southwestern Ethiopia. An important aspect of that was the presentation of the scenarios that we had...
View ArticleNew paper: Livelihood strategies, capital assets, and food security in rural...
By Aisa Manlosa Livelihood strategies are vital to the ability of households and individuals to be food secure. But what types of livelihood strategies promote better food security, and how can these...
View ArticleNew paper: woody plant conservation in SW Ethiopian forests
By Girma Shumi Dugo Tropical forest ecosystems harbor high biodiversity, but they have suffered from human-induced disturbances. The main purpose of this post is to share with you the findings of a new...
View ArticleCongratulations, Dr. Aisa Manlosa and Dr. Tolera Senbeto Jiren!
By Joern Fischer Today was a big day for our research group: two of four PhD students on our project on food security and biodiversity conservation defended their PhDs! Congratulations, Aisa and Tolera...
View ArticleNew paper: Sustainability starts within (each of us)
By Joern Fischer Led by Chris Ives and co-written by Rebecca Freeth and me, I’d like to draw your attention to our new paper on sustainability and our “inner worlds”. In this new paper, which recently...
View ArticleNew paper – Capital asset substitution as a coping strategy: practices and...
By Aisa Manlosa Smallholder farmers in various parts of the world often have to cope with a range of livelihoods-related challenges. These challenges may be associated with a lack in the capital assets...
View ArticleCongratulations, Dr. Girma Shumi Dugo!
By Joern Fischer About a week ago, our project on food security and biodiversity conservation culminated in yet another completed PhD! Girma Shumi Dugo successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations...
View ArticleFood & biodiversity: a 30 min presentation
By Joern Fischer Here is a short video summarising key findings of my research group on food security and biodiversity conservation in Ethiopia. The talk was presented at Leuphana University in October...
View ArticleVideo: a leverage points perspective on sustainability
By Joern Fischer Here’s a short video explaining a leverage points perspective on sustainability (see also leveragepoints.org, and our papers here and here).
View ArticleAlternative discourses around the governance of food security: A case study...
A summary of our new paper in Global Food Security, available here. By Tolera Senbeto Jiren Many existing studies on food security focus on either global scale discourses or on local level practices,...
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