RLC Bonn organises a physical workshop in Bonn, Germany, on “Contextualizing smallholders’ livelihoods for food security and sustainable agriculture: bio-diverse agro-ecosystems, market changes and land tenure” from September 24th to 29th, 2022, with the financial support of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Eligible to apply are all doctoral students …
The Russian war in Ukraine is showing serious consequences for global food security, as countries worldwide are particularly dependent on grain imports from both Ukraine and Russia. RLC Bonn Junior Researcher Ahmed Abadalla comments on the economic and political implications this may have for Egypt: “Could the Ukrainian war spark …
Professor Fidelis Allen, coordinator at RLC Port Harcourt, has jointly published an article together with Dr. Zainab Mai-Bornu (University of Leicester), Professor Roy Maconachie (University of Bath) and Dr. Miho Taka (Coventry University) on ‘Green Futures for Environmental Peacebuilding in Nigeria: Challenges and opportunities for oil producing communities in the …
Fidelis Allen, Coordinator of RLC Port Harcourt, Nigeria, is currently co-publishing a book with Luke Amadi on the critique of Western models of development. The book will be released on January 15, 2022, and is now available for pre-order here. A New Postcolonial Critique confronts colonial development models to decolonize …
During the UN Climate Change Conference COP26, held in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12, the RLC Bonn PhD candidate Irene Ojuok met with the former President of the United States, Barack Obama. Earlier, she had spoken to Right Livelihood Award Laureate Tony Rinaudo and filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff on …
RLC Bonn Junior Researcher Irene Ojuok spoke at the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) together with Right Livelihood Award Laureate Tony Rinaudo and filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff at an event of the Global Landscape Forum (GLF) about Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) as an approach to restore African …
Right Livelihood Award Laureate and RLC Córdoba coordinator Raúl Montenegro delivered the keynote speech at a virtual conference on October 30th, 2021. His speech in Spanish language was about the topic of “Socio-Environmental Resilience in Cities and other Anthropized Environments. Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss and Human Lifestyles”. Please find a …
The Universities of Bordeaux and Bordeaux Montaigne as well as l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et de Paysage (ENSAP) are organising an international conference in cooperation on “Water Wars & Peaces. Socioecology of Water, Economy of Sharing and Territorial Intelligence”, from November 4th to 5th, 2021 in Bordeaux, France. Right Livelihood …
RLC Bangkok coordinator Hans van Willenswaard will be giving a virtual talk on “THE FUTURE OF AGRICULTURE. Co-creating Healthy Food Systems” on September 6th, 2021, 2 PM (Bhutan Time), 3 PM (Bangkok Time). In his talk, he will explore the question whether a circular economy can be achieved without sustainable …
RLC Bonn Junior Researcher Ahmed Abdalla currently works on his dissertation about the main social and environmental challenges that wheat producing smallholders face in the River Nile delta. In order to receive first-hand information from local smallholders, Ahmed recently conducted a field research in Egypt supported by the German Academic …
