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food security

  • Educational Games

    We plan to develop, with partners, a prototype of an educational web-based game on food security. It is targeted at secondary school students...

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Summer School on “Modelling Food Security” has started

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The POLISES research group welcomes 18 PhD students and postdocs to its summer school on the UFZ’s Leipzig campus. In a combination of lectures and...

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Summer School on Modelling Food Security: Apply Now!

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We would like to draw your attention to the international Summer School on Modelling Food Security, which will take place from September 8-14, 2019 at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Leipzig, Germany...

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International Workshop on Food Security Modelling

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From March 10-12, the UFZ was host to an international workshop on “Modelling approaches to enhance food security: Synergies from bridging the gap between the micro and the macro scale”, organised by Birgit Müller and our POLISES group...

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Web-based food security game

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By Jakob Lochner

Most products in the supermarket have seen more countries in their lifetime than I have, even though I like traveling. It is everybody’s own responsibility to be aware where the purchased products come from…

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Packaging tomatoes in the Souss area, Morocco

Exploring Hunger Crises and Local Food Sovereignty

by David

In the past summer semester, I had the opportunity to teach a seminar at the University of Leipzig’s geography department. More than 30 students, mostly freshmen and sophomores, prepared presentations and then contributed...

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