GlobE-Conference, 3rd-4th of Dezember 2018 in Kenya – Naivasha

The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has supported six German-African Research consortia with a total budget of 45 M Euro. The projects started early 2013 and will be phased out by end of 2018. 270 participants came to the conference in Naivasha, Kenya on the 3rd and 4th of December 2018.

The Conference aims at disseminating these outputs widely in the target regions of the research and beyond the immediate GlobE consortia. These GlobE research networks have yielded a vast number of outputs, including technical, organizational, institutional, and social innovations, resource management and development strategies, indicators to assess innovations and strategies regarding ecological, economic, and social aspects of sustainability, benchmarking frameworks, management recommendations, dissemination materials and strategies, and policy recommendations.

The work group SusLAND at ZALF coordinated the Trans-SEC project, which was presented successfully. An additional exhibition demonstrated GIS applications, documentaries and a poster presentation. It was followed up by a dialogue session on science-practices interfaces.

The six GlobE projects focused the countries Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania: