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INTERFACES Colloquium Series - Overview

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Blog #9 - Tropentag 2024 (KM4AgD)

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Tropentag Conference 2024 - KM4AgD

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Combating Gender-based Violence in Northern Ghana’s Rural Areas

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Knowledge Café Validation with Dr. Kisito Gandji, Melika Vodouhnessi and Dorcas Sanginga Alame

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Status Seminar 2025: Sustainable Land Management in Sub-Sahara Africa

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Sustainable Land Management in Sub-Saharan Africa: Improving livelihoods through local research

Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), within the strategy of its platform Research for Sustainability (Forschung für Nachhaltigkeit, FONA), the INTERFACES Project works with four other regional projects to strengthen the integration, coherence and reach in the area of sustainable land management.

INTERFACES

Supporting Pathways to Sustainable Land Management in Africa

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COINS

Co-developing innovations for sustainable land management in West African smallholder farming systems

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DecLaRe

Decision support for strengthening land resilience in the face of global challenges

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InfoRange

Increasing efficiency in rangeland-based livestock value chains through machine learning approaches and digital technologies

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Minodu

Fostering local sustainable development through technology and research

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Understanding farmers' decisions: activities in northern Ghana

This current blog, prepared by Dr. Javier Miranda from the University of Bonn, shares experiences and lessons learned from a number of carefully planned activities in northern Ghana in October 2024, including an expert workshop, the training of enumerators and implementing a questionnaire.

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Strengthening agricultural resilience in Senegal: key insights from a field mission

This current blog, prepared by Dr. Hycenth Tim Ndah from the University of Hohenheim, shares key insights and consequent recommendations from a field mission conducted by the regional project COINS in May 2024. The full field mission report can be found here.

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UNCCD COP 16: Another setback for multilateral environmental and resource protection

Original post on IDOS Blogs Senior researcher at IDOS, agricultural economist and German representative on the UNCCD Science and Technology Committee, Dr. Michael Bruentrup reflects on last week’s negotiations in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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UNCCD COP16 Side Event: The Role of Youth in Innovation for SLM

This current blog, co-authored by Kingnidé Wilfrid Adjimoti and Aiveen Donnelly, shares a recent project highlight of an official UNCCD COP16 Side Event, which was jointly organised by the INTERFACES team at IDOS and the GEO LDN, hosted by the University of Energy and Natural Resources in Ghana and run by GIZ.

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Geotools for smallholder farmers

This current blog written by PhD candidate at the Ruhr University Bochum, Stefanie Steinbach from the COINS regional project, discusses the question how digital tools and geodata can support smallholder farmers in West Africa to promote sustainable land use.

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Understanding local perceptions of land tenure security in Northern Benin using Mental Models

This current blog, collaboratively written by the DecLaRe colleagues from PIK and WASCAL, discusses a recent research effort in Northern Benin, where a unique mental model methodology to collect data has been employed to explore how different local communities’ groups perceive the benefits, limitations and border of holding an ADC.

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