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- 2017 | Capacity building | Conference | Edible Insects | Europe | Food Security | Global | Marwa Shumo | Science Policy | Uncategorized | Urban
IPIFF International Meeting in Brussels
Here is an update on my trip to the capital of the European Union Brussels. An attempt to catch the early morning train despite the renovations that are currently taking place in Bonn central train station and a brief stop in Cologne central train station and as you can see, the beginning of the advent…
Will bugs save our life: A conference on the importance of edible insects in East Africa
Sunday, late at night, Marwa finally returned to her Kenyan home after a wonderful experience in Berlin. Monday morning and just few hours later, she got up and exchanged the winter clothes in her suitcase with summer ones. She was exhausted, yet excited, sleepy but rather spent the night sleepless. As she walked out of…
Guten Rutsch/Happy New Year
Upon our return from South Africa,Christmas was just around the corner and it was that time of the year when you see a mad Santa hanging outside of windows. It was also that time of the year when our beautiful city usually gets filled with beautiful markets and decorations. It was also that time of…
How to electrify a village in Togo
An important component of CIREG (Climate Information for Renewable Electricity Generation) is the implementation of a pilot study with the aim to electrify a village with about 120 households (~10kW) in Togo at the Mono River. Between the 2nd to the 6th of December, a CIREG team composed of partners from The Potsdam Institute for…
- 2015 | Africa | Field research | Marwa Shumo | Researchers
Farewell to a great 2015
I am writing this blog while fighting what seems to be a prolonged episode of a “writer’s block”. It was my intention to post some updates a couple of weeks ago, but the anxiety I have developed recently stopped me from doing so. I spend long hours in the molecular lab extracting DNAs, dissecting insects…
- 2018 | Capacity building | Community outreach | Edible Insects | Edible Insects | Europe | Food Security | Global | Information | Marwa Shumo | Science Communication | Urban | ZEF/Bonn
A spring full of bug activities
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” – Hal Borland We did experience a long harsh winter this year, but at the end, spring did not skipp us and it did arrive in a full swing. The arrival of spring means being able to walk around our beautiful 200 years old university campus…
