Paul Vlek is part of the 2014 2nd Semester, 2016 1st Semester, 2017 2nd Semester, and 2020 1st Semester cohorts at STIAS.
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Roundtable on Agricultural Transformation challenges in Southern Africa
Following a series of preparatory workshops and seminars at STIAS during October and November 2014, STIAS will convene a Roundtable with a focus on sustain...
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STIAS Lecture Series 2016: Paul Vlek – Land Degradation: A threat to food security in Sub-Saharan Africa
Professor Paul Vlek, Former Director of the Centre for Ecology and Management of Natural Resources (ZEF), Emeritus Professor at the University of Bonn and ...
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Transforming Agriculture in Southern Africa: Constraints, Technologies, Policies and Processes (cancelled)
This book provides a synthesis of the key issues and challenges facing agriculture and food production in Southern Africa. Southern Africa is facing numer...
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STIAS Fellow Paul Vlek awarded the 2014 World Agriculture Prize
STIAS Fellow Paul Vlek, a world-renowned soil scientist from Bonn University, was recently awarded the 2014 World Agriculture Prize during ceremonies in ...
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Feeding the region: towards a healthy food basket for southern Africa
“Roundtables are the start of discussion,” says Maud Olofsson (Minister for Enterprise and Energy from 2006 to 2011 and Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden fro...
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Food Security in Southern Africa - in search of a full and nutritious food basket
The research experts making up the core group of the STIAS-Forum continue their important work on sustainable intensification of agricultural production in...
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Feeding our children’s children - update from the sustainable agro-ecosystems group
“It’s about our children’s children,” said Richard Sikora. “They will live with these problems if we don’t do something now. We have to target the breadbas...
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Trade-Offs in Multi-Purpose Land Use under Land Degradation
Vlek, Paul, Asia Khamzina, Hossein Azadi, AnikBhaduri, Luna Bharati, Ademola Braimoh, Christopher Martius, Terry Sunderland and FatemehTaheri. 2017. Trade-...
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Transforming Agriculture in Southern Africa: Constraints, Technologies, Policies and Processes
Sikora, Richard A., Eugene R. Terry, Paul L.G. Vlek and Joyce Chitja. (Eds.). 2020. Transforming Agriculture in Southern Africa: Constraints, Technologies,...