From Savanna to Cropland: How Land-Use Change Impacts Soil Carbon Storage in Southern Africa - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

This paper, based on research from our sub-project A01 "Future Carbon Storage", shows that converting Southern African savanna woodlands into cropland causes

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Full Video: Ghost Projects and Infrastructure Development - Third World Quarterly Special Issue Launch - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

Guest-edited by Detlef Müller-Mahn, Eric Kioko and Theo Aalders from our sub-project C03 “Green Futures”, this special issue of Third World Quarterly was

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Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Researcher Environmental Humanities, University of Lausanne - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

The University of Lausanne (UNIL) is a higher teaching and research institution composed of seven faculties where nearly 17,000 students and 5,000

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Call for Contributions: Innovation and New Technologies in Agrifood Value Chains Under Pressure (Edited Volume) - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

The edited volume Innovation and New Technologies in Agrifood Value Chains under Pressure, planned for publishing within the Springer Book series Economic

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Rewilding and Power: Conservation Politics in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Region - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

In this article, Léa Lacan and Johannes Dittman, associated reseachers from our sub-projects A04 "Future Conservation" and C03 "Green Futures", examine

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Epistemic Voids: A New Lens on Knowledge and Future-Making - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

Saymore Ngonidzashe Kativu and Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Project B05 "Science Futures") introduce the concept of epistemic voids to explain how structural

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Call for Panels: European Conference of African Studies (ECAS) 2027, Lisbon - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

As Europe’s largest and most international conference with an African focus, ECAS2027 – the 11th European Conference of African Studies – will be held as a

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New Publication: How Demonstration Plots Shape Agricultural Futures - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

In this study, Saymore Ngonidzashe Kativu, Javier Revilla-Diez and Anna-Katharina Hornidge, researchers from our sub-projects B05 "Science Futures" and C01

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Navigating Belonging in Global Science: New Publication Highlights Early Career Researchers' Experiences - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

In this paper, Saymore Ngonidzashe Kativu (Project B05 "Science Futures") offers a reflective, autoethnographic account of what it is like to be an Early

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New Publication Examines How Different Stakeholders Value Wildlife in Namibia’s Coexistence Landscapes - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

This newly published interdisciplinary study brings together researchers from multiple disciplines and institutions, including Ugo Arbieu (Université

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Call for Applications: Researcher / Senior Researcher Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence University of Bayreuth - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

The Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence is a major collaborative and transcontinental research institution in the field of African Studies. It is comprised

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Ghost Projects – Ruined Futures and the Unfulfilled Promises of Infrastructure Development: Launch of Special Issue of Third World Quarterly (Online) - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

Mon | June 15th, 2026 | 16:00 (CEST)

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Call for Applications: PhD Scholarship - Violent Futures? Contestations Along Carbon Frontiers in East Africa - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

Our Subproject B03 "Violent Futures" is currently accepting applications for a PhD scholarship position. The project examines how future-oriented carbon

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Hunting, Environmental Change, and the Defaunation of Wildlife in Baringo, Kenya (1840–1977) - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

Hauke-Peter Vehrs (Project A04 "Future Conservation") and David Anderson (Project A02 "Past Futures") argue that the sharp decline of wildlife in Kenya’s

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Tsetse Flies Between Threat and Coexistence: Narratives and Disease Landscapes in Zambia - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

Léa Lacan (Project A04 "Future Conservation") examines how different narratives portray tsetse flies in Zambia—as dangerous disease vectors, protectors of

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Call for Applications: JKUAT Summer School on Transdisciplinary Methods for Studying Social-Ecological Systems - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

With funding from the Volkswagen Foundation, the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) in Kenya in collaboration with the Research

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New Publication: Off-Farm Work Helps Reduce Seasonal Food Insecurity in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

In this study, Jonas Guthoff, Martin Parlasca and Matin Qaim (Project C08 "Job Futures") examine whether taking on off-farm work helps rural households in

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Journal of Postcolonial Writing

Decolonial Hope: Planetary sustainability and literary responses; Guest Editors: Goutam Karmakar and Janet M. Wilson. Volume 62, Issue 1 of Journal of Postcolonial Writing

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New Publication: Road Access Improves Market Integration—but Accelerates Land Degradation in Kenya - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

In this study, Vincent Moseti, Jan Börner and Lisa Biber-Freudenberger from our sub-project A05 "Future Roads" take a look at road accessibility and market

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Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Researcher / Curator - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

The Department of Geography at the University of Bonn and Futurium are partnering on the Z05 project “Negotiating African Futures: an exhibition project” of

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Harnessing of Steam: Geothermal Energy, Ancillary Infrastructure and Scalar Challenges in Kenya - Webinar with Clemens Greiner - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

Thu | March 26th, 2026 | 15:00 (SAST)

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Railway Construction and Changing Conflict Dynamics in Kilosa, Tanzania - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

Conrad Schetter, Lucy Massoi and Venance Shillingi (Project B03 "Violent Futures") analyse conflict dynamics between Parakuyo pastoralists and Kaguru and

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New Study Sheds Light on Conservation, Eviction, and Conflict in Kenya’s Mau Forest - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228

In this study, Marie Müller-Koné and Kennedy Mkutu (Project B03 "Violent Futures") examine how state-led forest conservation efforts in Kenya’s Mau

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