Details: Published: 14 January 2019

Action- and Decision-oriented Research Handbook has been released!

For anyone, who always wanted to know, how to develop a solution oriented research project with an interdisciplinary team. For more than 24 years, Dr. Karin Fiege has prepared interdisciplinary teams for overseas projects. Her knowledge and experience is now summarized in a new handbook.

Details: Published: 14 November 2018

Interviews and further Insights into UFiSAMo

The UFiSAMo-Project (Urban Agriculture for Food Security and Income Generation in South Africa and Mozambique) analyses urban agricultural production systems and how to best improve them.
For urban communities in Maputo/ Mozambique and Cape Town/ South Africa UFISAMO aims to:

improve food security and safety
improve income generation
assess benefits and risks in integrated urban livestock and crop farming
combine research and practical applications of urban farming from grassroots to upper policy levels

In order to provide more insight into the project, a new 20 minute video has been produced by Dariusch Tabib-Elahi, which puts small scale local farmers into the centre of attention.

Details: Published: 31 October 2018

Finishing productive week of Rural Transformation training course

The SLE TRAINING course “Rural Transformation”, took place from 22 – 26 October 2018, and welcomed 13 participants from 9 different countries to explore a new perspective on rural development. The course focused on the systematic analysis of Structural and Rural Transformation processes, their assessment with due consideration of development policy objectives and aimed at contributing to policies and strategies for the effective promotion and shaping of those processes in a socially inclusive and ecologically sustainable manner.

Details: Published: 19 October 2018

Succesful Completion of "Training of Trainers" Course

From October 8th -19th, we had the pleasure to complete the SLE TRAINING course Training of Trainers (ToT) with 11 participants of 9 different countries. The long professional experience of trainer Gesa Grundmann, which she gained over more than 25 years in diverse settings in Asia, Latin America and Germany, enriched an intensive knowledge exchange with the curious participants. The learning objectives were to acquire and apply an own toolbox, advance soft skills, learn in a community of practice and most important to get the big picture: Especially skills and knowledge around the topics of design, planning, organization, conduction and evaluation of trainings through practice-based learning methods were gained.

SLE hosts workshop at Tropentag 2018 in Ghent, Belgium

On the 16th of September 2018 SLE organized with various partners a workshop on knowledge exchange between farmers and academia to adapt to climate change. This workshop was initiated by the Climate-resilient investigation and innovation project (CRAIIP) in Indonesia funded by Brot für die Welt. Project partners from Indonesia Mr Kustiwa Adinata (IPPHTI) and Mr Tandu Ramba (Motivator Kondoran) presented their practical experiences from farmer climate field labs in Java and Sulawesi. Examples from sub-Saharan Africa were presented by Ulrike Bey and Tumainu Matutu from HORIZONT3000 and Anne Mette Lykke from Aarhus University. More than 30 participants from various universities, GIZ, the International Potato Centre , ICRAF, Fibl Austria and other institutes discussed ways on how to improve the farmer-academia-policy linkages for promoting sustainable agriculture in a changing climate.

Details: Published: 24 September 2018

SLE TRAINING: Disaster Risk Management (DRM)

From September 10th - 21st, participants from over 10 different countries immersed themselves into the SLE TRAINING: Disaster Risk Management (DRM). The exceptional experience and knowledge of trainer Peter Rottach was essential in facilitating a quality training course covering elements of DRM such as risk assessment, risk mapping with GIS and various means of disaster prevention, mitigation and resilience.

Details: Published: 14 September 2018

SLE Welcomes Delegation from Central African Countries

On Friday (14/09/2018) SLE presented its work to a Delegation from different countries of the central african region. The guests consisted of university directors and teachers with a background in forestry and environmental science. Together with representatives of GIZ and the University of Frankfurt/Main they are on a study trip through Germany. In the beginning the staff of SLE provided a short introduction into the work of SLE. In the break the gruoup had the opportunity to meet the participant of the SLE TRAINING course Disaster Risk Management. Afterwards one part of the guests did a quick research on factors of success and barriers for the etablishment of offers for continous education at central african universities. The other part was looking into the marketing und networking as well as the sustainability and quality management of such offers. The guests showed great interest in the offers of SLE, e.g. the postgraduate program "International cooperation for sustainable development" and the possibilities of further education for experts and executives offered by SLE TRAINING.