TRR 228:  Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation

• Subject Area: Geosciences ; Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine ; Biology ; Humanities ; Medicine ; Social and Behavioural Sciences
• Term: since 2018
• Website: Homepage
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 328966760

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• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• International Connection: Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania

Current projects

• A01 - Future Carbon Storage: Synergies and trade-offs of carbon storage along pathways of land transformation (Project Heads Amelung, Wulf ;  Börner, Jan ;  Linstädter, Anja )
• A04 - Future Conservation: Temporalizing conservation in protected African wetlandscapes (Project Heads Bollig, Michael ;  Krause, Ph.D., Franz )
• B01 - Invasive Futures: Land-use Transitions (Project Heads Becker, Mathias ;  Dierks, Janina ;  Heckelei, Thomas ;  Kamiri, Hellen ;  Mwaura-Kamiri, Hellen )
• B02 - Future Infections: Linking social-ecological transformation, land surface changes and arthropod-borne infections (Project Heads Borgemeister, Christian ;  Junglen, Sandra ;  Malenovsky, Zbynek )
• B03 - Violent Futures? Contestations along carbon frontiers in East Africa (Project Heads Grawert, Elke ;  Schetter, Conrad Justus ;  Sulle, Ph.D., Emmanuel )
• B05 - Science Futures: The role of science-policy interfaces in co-producing rural futures (Project Heads Brüntrup, Michael ;  Hornidge, Anna-Katharina ;  Kaldewey, David )
• B06 - Digital Agrarian Futures: The political economy of the implementation of new technologies (Project Heads Dannenberg, Peter ;  Hall, Ph.D., Ruth )
• C01 - Future in Chains: Socio-economic impacts of growth corridors (Project Heads Dannenberg, Peter ;  Revilla Diez, Javier )
• C02 - Energy Futures: Infrastructures and governance for renewable energies (Project Heads Greiner, Clemens ;  Klagge, Britta )
• C03 - Green Futures: The transformation of rural waterscapes (Project Heads Budds, Jessica ;  Kioko, Ph.D., Eric ;  Müller-Mahn, Detlef )
• C08 - Job futures: Livelihood effects, digital innovations, and household dynamics in Africa (Project Heads Parlasca, Martin Christoph ;  Qaim, Matin )
• Z01 - Central Administrative Project (Project Heads Bollig, Michael ;  Klagge, Britta )
• Z02 - Data Management and Services (INF) (Project Head Bareth, Georg )
• Z03 - Combined Farm / Household Survey (Project Heads Bollig, Michael ;  Börner, Jan ;  Dannenberg, Peter ;  Greiner, Clemens ;  Heckelei, Thomas ;  Parlasca, Martin Christoph )
• Z04 - Integrated Research and Training Group (IRTG) (Project Heads Bollig, Michael ;  Borgemeister, Christian )
• Z05 - Negotiating African Futures – An Exhibition Project (Project Heads Bollig, Michael ;  Nöthen, Eva ;  Zipf, Gabriele )

Completed projects

• A02 - Micro-histories of rural development in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (Project Head Anderson, David M. )
• A03 - Scales of variability, human-environment interactions, and patterns in agrolandscapes (Project Heads Becker, Mathias ;  Evers, Mariele ;  Heckelei, Thomas )
• A05 - Road mediated trade-offs between conservation and development (Project Heads Bareth, Georg ;  Biber-Freudenberger, Lisa ;  Bogner, Christina ;  Börner, Jan )
• B04 - Shifting land use patterns, intergenerational tensions, and competing visions of future-making in Kenya (Project Head Schulz, Ph.D., Dorothea E. )
• C04 - Transforming human-nature relations through mobile information services (Project Head Verne, Julia )
• C05 - Temporal frames of reference in land conversions (Project Heads Mitchell, Alice ;  Widlok, Thomas )
• C06 - Cross-scalar linkages as coping strategies for socioeconomic exclusion (Project Head Zillinger, Martin )
• C07 - Welfare-policy planning in Tanzania from the 1960s to the 1980s (Project Head Lindner, Ulrike )

• Applicant Institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
• Co-Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Participating University: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin; Universität Potsdam
• Participating Institution: Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC) gGmbH; Futurium gGmbH; German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS); University of the Western Cape
• Spokespersons: Professor Dr. Michael Bollig, from 1/2022 until 12/2025; Professorin Dr. Britta Klagge; Professor Dr. Detlef Müller-Mahn, until 12/2021