“Kampf der Kulturen und/oder Weltethos” was the first peer-reviewed journal article (1997). It was written by Prof. Dr. Hartmut Ihne, who has been the managing director of the International Science Forum Bonn from 1996-2004. The Science Forum comprised Bonn University’s two Centers ZEF and ZEI (European Integration Research) and was dissolved in 2004. From 2004-2008,…
“Probleme der Entwicklungspolitik” (1997) was one of the first books published by a ZEF-based researcher. Its author was ZEF Senior Fellow Prof. Dr. Uwe Holtz in: Bouvier (CICERO- Schriftenreihe, 2), Bonn. Prof. Holtz was a Member of Germany’s Federal Parliament from 1972-1994. In this capacity, he was involved in devising the conceptual framework for ZEF…
Published in 2001 by Ortiz-Monasterio, I.J., G.G.B. Manske and M. van Ginkel. 2001. Nitrogen and Phosphorus Use Efficiency. In: Reynolds, M.P., I.J. Ortiz-Monasterio and A. McNab (eds.): Application of Physiology in Wheat Breeding. Mexico, D.F.: CIMMYT. 200-207. Link here. ZEF-researchers have published 1,100 book chapters over the past 25 years.
In their first Annual Report (1998/1999), ZEF’s founding Professors and Directors, Joachim von Braun and Paul Vlek, tell the background story of ZEF’s establishment as an integral academic institution of Bonn University. This Annual Report also includes an outline of ZEF’s first Strategy. You can find ZEF’s latest Strategy Paper (2021-2030) on our Website.
Osvaldo Ryohei Kato published one of the first Doctoral Theses at ZEF. His research on “Fire-free Land Preparation as an Alternative to Slash-and-burn Agriculture in the Bragantina Region, Eastern Amazon: Crop Performance and Nitrogen Dynamics” is still available online. Kato started working with Embrapa in Brazil and continued to work with ZEF, e.g. on one…
The first Lead Article in the first issue of the ZEF News (May 1999) dealt with “Controversial WTO topics”, and was written by ZEF-researchers Ulrike Grote (now a Professor at the University of Hanover) and Susanna Wolf (now a Senior Programme Officer at UN-OHRLLS). Since then, hundreds of ZEF-researchers have made contributions about their topics…
Knowledge systems, knowledge transfer, and knowledge hubs were among the first research foci of ZEF’s Department of Political and Cultural Change.
Governance and Conflict is among ZEF’s thematic ‘evergreens’. The regional focus has shifted from mostly regions in Central Asia and Asia to countries in South America over the years.
The majority of ZEF’s Discussion Papers have been written by researchers from or affiliated with ZEF’s Department of Economic and Technological Change.
Blogs offer ZEF researchers a science and academic-related space where they can tell their own stories behind their actual research. Our alumna Marwa Shumo was the first ZEF blogger!