23.01.2026
As part of his PhD research at ZALF, Hamza Moluh Njoya successfully defended his dissertation titled "Advancing Forest Landscape Restoration Efforts at the Local Level: Unpacking the Contributions of Smallholder Farmers and Institutions in Central Togo" on November 7, 2025, at Humboldt University of Berlin.
His work combined household surveys and focus group discussions to explore landscape restoration practices, socioeconomic drivers, and institutional dynamics. The findings highlight the need for locally adapted inclusive strategies that integrate ecological objectives with livelihood needs.
The research was conducted within the TREES project — accompanying research to forest landscape restoration and good governance in Ethiopia, Madagascar, Togo, Benin, and Cameroon — under the Forests4Future (F4F) program of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
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