Dear friends, In the first of this week´s blog on Breakout Africa, my colleague, Omulo Godfrey tackles the vital issue of food (in)security in Africa. He highlights how a lack of ambition and under-investment in agricultural inno…lnkd.in/e9vQJmB lnkd.in/e-zJbTw

In the first of this week´s blog on Breakout Africa, Eric Mensah Kumeh explores that topic of land grabbing in Sub-Saharan Africa. He shows how Land Grabbing has led to the loss of about 12 million livelihoods and displaced smal…lnkd.in/djKgpnz lnkd.in/dCnVwvD

Breakout Africa ends this week with a letter, an appeal really to youths of developed countries. In the letter, Eric Mensah Kumeh argues how the fight action climate action for which youths from all over the world participated in this week will be flipped…lnkd.in/dREuj7r

In the first of this week´s post on Breakout Africa, Eric Mensah Kumeh writes. Cocoa farmers do not eat standards. He shows why lip service paid by governments of chocolate producing Ghana and Ivory Coast alike as well as chocolati…lnkd.in/dx8gi3N lnkd.in/dtCWzVF

Dear friends, In this week on Breakout Africa, Eric Mensah Kumeh​​ uses the case of failing agricultural mechanisation in Africa to show why we need African solutions to our problems. He does this in collaboration with Maurice…lnkd.in/dudcygz lnkd.in/dapXJCx

Join us for our next webinar on Thursday, 3 September from 13:00-14:00 where our panellists will discuss “Land activism in South Africa: The state of rural and urban struggles”. #LandActivism More info about the webinar here: j.mp/3jmahn7

The Annals of the American Association of Geographers is looking for contributions for a special issue on race, nature, and the environment! Abstracts due by 3/31

A huge opportunity: The #charcoal sector in Sub-Saharan #Africa employs 40 million people and wood can be a renewable #energy resource. Kumeh Mensah Eric shows a way forward supporting organized small farmers downtoearth.org.in/blog/africa/wh… #Ghana #Malawi Civic Response @Ghaffapgh

In case you want to contribute or share our CfP on #justice, #politics, #power, #decarbonization & #bioeconomy! The submission portal is open and deadline is: 30.6. Working with a gr8 team: Juha Hiedanpää, Markus Kröger Helga Pülzl, leah temper, Mary Menton, & #WolframDressler.

Great drone video about the field trials of our Ph.D. studentd Godfrey in Zambia. Soon we will know more about the effects of different types of mechanized CA.

Our PhD student Godfrey harvesting soybeans as part of his field trials on mechanized Conservation Agriculture in Zambia. We are very curious on what he will find out. IPPAE University of Hohenheim & Gießen Hans Ruthenberg Institut - Universität Hohenheim

IT'S HARVEST TIME! Soya bean harvest at CAFM fields. A total of 13 plots were harvested today,these were planted using three different tillage methods. Can't wait to see the yield difference. #CAFM Godfrey Omulo

Obed Owusu-Addai , has dragged GovernmentOfGH to Court over the continuous issuance of special permits for commercial logging of timber contrary to the Constitution of the country Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources-Ghana Forest Watch Ghana A Rocha Ghana Lawyer Abu Jinapor ecocareghana.org/govt-dragged-t…

How can #Ghanafarmers benefit from #treeplanting to restore degraded landscapes? Eric Mensah Kumeh (Kumeh Mensah Eric) et al. discuss the pitfalls of current incentive mechanisms here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Ok, let's start it here as I board this Milano- Brussels flight and feel like sh*t for doing that LuonnonvarakeskusInt @LukeFinland colleagues and friends: like, share, tweet #FlylessLuke if you are on board! After all it's words to action that makes a difference.

In the global North, 55% of all material consumed comes from the global South. In the global South, only 6% of all material consumed comes from the global North. Who's dependent on whom?

Join Kumeh Mensah Eric at UniPID's excellent session on writing your masters thesis - in person in lovely Helsinki, or the comfort of your bedroom!

If you missed our final #Nature seminar of this series, don't worry, you can catch Sandra Diaz powerful talk on the new Global Biodiversity Framework on our Youtube channel here: youtu.be/oe2dKpudS4s

In a captivating panel, Green Transition Dilemmas at the Natural Resources and Conflicts in Africa conference, organised by #DIIS, I was honoured to unveil some hidden sides of land dispossession. Through extensive fieldwork in Atebubu and Kwame Danso, wh…lnkd.in/etse3NaC

I had the privilege of spending a lot of time in communities experiencing caustic land use conflicts during my doctoral studies and beyond. Based on a sustained understanding of these conflicts, I am committed to developing a holistic framework for tackli…lnkd.in/e9ZkRu7W