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- 2019 | Africa | Capacity building | Edible Insects | Food Security | Global | Information | Marwa Shumo | Researchers | Science Communication | Summer School Green and Social Entrepreneurship 2018 | Uncategorized | Urban | Volkswagen Foundation | Women in Science & Eduction | ZEF/Bonn
Sleepless in Howick- Impressions from the “Rainbow Nation” (1)
On the 18th of July the world celebrated the 100th birthday of the great inspirational leader, Nelson Mandela. Madiba lived a remarkable life; a life devoted to fight for black rights, and campaigned against the laws that kept white and black people apart (apartheid) that led him to be imprisoned for 27 years. A worldwide…
- 2016 | Africa | Field research | Food Security | Marwa Shumo
No pain…No gain :’-(
Adversity is a fact of life. It canât be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it. (Author unknown) January 2016 was by far the month of adversity to the queen of black soldier flies. Marwa just managed to overcome the loss of some 50 thousand adult flies that were washed away…
Berlin Calling :-D
Marwa has a thing for big cities and in particular she has a thing for Berlin and it seems that Berlin has something new and interesting every year for Marwa. This year Marwa returned to Berlin on a DAAD scholarship to attend both the University of Potsdam summer school on international nutrition: Future Food and…
Postcard from India: visiting RC21 conference and exploring low-income residential areas in Delhi and Mumbai
In September 2019, a group of ZEF researchers, among them three members of the âZEF in the Cityâ research group [find more information here] traveled to Delhi and other parts of India. New Delhi â urban green and climate strike Old Delhi has served as a capital for several empires from medieval times to modern…
- 2018 | Community outreach | Edible Insects | Edible Insects | Europe | Food Security | Global | Information | Marwa Shumo | Science Communication | ZEF/Bonn
âWie die Wissenschaft uns ernährtâ
Frankfurter Allgemeine (FAZ), one of Germanyâs leading newspapers wrote an article on ZEF and my research on the black soldier fly. After grabbing a copy of the newspaper from the supermarket next door, I had a quick through the piece. The articleâs author, the German journalist Dr. Jan Grossrath wrote, that he had seen some…
- 2019 | Africa | Agroecology | Edible Insects | Edible Insects | Field research | Food Security | Global | Information | Marwa Shumo | Science Communication | Urban | Women in Science & Eduction | ZEF/Bonn
New Publication ” Insects for Feed”
Our open access peer-reviewed article entitled “Influence of Temperature on Selected Life-History Traits of Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) Reared on Two Common Urban Organic Waste Streams in Kenya” was published in Animals Special Issue Insects: Alternative Protein Source for Animal Feed. Here is a simple summary of the article: Rapid population growth and urbanization,…
