- Nationality
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- Affiliation
- Institute for Crop Science and Resource Conservation (Emeritus), University of Bonn
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2012 & Earlier / 2013 1st Semester / 2014 2nd Semester / 2016 1st Semester / 2017 2nd Semester / 2020 1st Semester / 2022 1st Semester
Projects
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Food security in sub-Saharan Africa from the production, human and environmental safety standpoints
Africa, once considered the breadbasket of the world, is now highly dependent on food imports. -
Impact of sustainable intensification of food production on environment and human well-being
Africa, once considered the breadbasket of the world, is now strongly affected by problems with food insecurity and malnutrition. -
Nutritional Security in a Profitable and Sustainable Food System
The South African Food system is designed to ensure that the country’s population is well-nourished, that farming is a viable livelihood and that the environment is protected. -
Developing a complexity science capable of solving practical, important, and urgent problems
The process of transforming agriculture in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is, especially for policymakers and decisionmakers, highly complex.
Related to this person
Event
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 sustainable agricultural intensification in Southern Africa.
Event
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.
Article
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 Nanjing, Jiangsu province of China.
Article
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 from 2006 to 2010).
Article
Working to replenish southern Africa’s food basket
Agriculture in the southern Africa region is faced with major constraints affecting the region’s ability to provide sufficient and nutritious food to both urban and rural populations in the near future.
Article
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 southern Africa at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS).
Article
Feeding our children’s children - update from the sustainable agro-ecosystems group
It’s about our children’s children, said Richard Sikora.
Article
Using complexity science to solve practical, important and urgent problems in agriculture - Fellows' seminar by Mario Giampietro, Aloisius Louie, Ansel Renner and Richard Sikora
The Cartesian Dream is all about prediction and control, said Mario Giampietro of the Institute of Environmental Science & Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Publication
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,...