Projekt

This project investigates the relation between new patterns of mobility and natural resource management in African savannah environments as a result of processes of globalisation, commoditization and rural impoverishment. The complex interrelation between mobility, networks, conflicts and institutions on the one hand and natural resources on the other hand will be researched in three different regions (Cameroon/ Nigeria, Tanzania/Kenya, Namibia/South Africa). The interdisciplinary structure of the project (social scientists, agricultural scientists, political scientists, natural scientists and experts with a background in law) will enable the project to understand the dynamics of coupled social-ecological systems in African savannahs in a comprehensive way and contribute to the understanding of the rapid restructuring of social-ecological relations in African savannahs in the age of globalisation.

• Prof. Dr. Michael Bollig

  Universität Köln
  Philosophische Fakultät
  Cologne African Studies Centre
  Institut für Ethnologie
  Köln
  

• Dr. Mirjam de Bruijn

  Leiden University
  African Studies Centre
  Leiden
  Niederlande
  

• Prof. Dr. Francis B. Nyamnjoh

  Council for the Development of
  Social Science Research in Africa
  (CODESRIA)
  Dakar
  Senegal
  

• Willem A. Odendaal

  Legal Assistance Centre
  Land, Environment and Development (LEAD)
  Legal Assistance Centre
  Windhoek
  Namibia
  

• Webster Whande

  University of the Western Cape
  Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies
  Bellville
  Südafrika
  

• Prof. Dr. Pius Z. Yanda

  University of Dar es Salaam
  Centre for Climate Change Studies
  Institute of Resource Management
  Dar es Salaam
  Tansania (Tanzania)
  

• Dr. Tangie Nsoh Fonchingong

  University of Buea
  Faculty of Social and Management Sciences
  Department of Political Science and Public
  Public Administration
  Buea
  Kamerun (Cameroun)
  

• Prof. Dr. Paul Hebinck

  Wageningen University
  Department of Social Sciences
  Sociology of Rural Development
  Wageningen
  Niederlande
  

• Dr. Frank Matose

  University of the Western Cape
  Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies
  Cape Town, South Africa
  Südafrika