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Current APT Crew
Thomas Baumann: Student assistant, Web Page, Information Dissemination
Stefan Dongus: PhD-Student, UPA, Mapping, GIS
Prof. Dr. Axel Drescher: Coordination, UPA
Lisa Ernst: Student assistant, Practical, Master Thesis
Cathy Guettner: Student assistant Admin, Practical, Master Thesis
Prof. Dr. David Iaquinta (Freiburg-USA): Antropologist, UPA, Peri-urban Typology
Prof. Dr. Ruediger Mäckel: Resource niches in Africa
Dr. Arne Panesar: Ecosanitation
Conny Pfeiffer: Sociologist, PhD-Student Evaluation of Development Projects in Africa
Early Reserach projects:
• Landuse Changes and Agrarian Land use in Southern Spain (Costa del Sol, Huelva)
Böll-Stftg. u. GraFöG- Elke Ecker u. Axel Drescher
• Vegetation Geographie Southern Spain (Alpujarra)
GraFöG- Thomas May
Short History1990 - 1995
First Research in Africa:
Home gardens in African SpacesFood Security/SpeciesDiversity/sustainableDevelopment
(Zambia and Zimbabwe)
FAO und DFG- Axel Drescher
Short History 1995 – 2000
Research projects:Erosion Northern SpainEprodesert -Evaluation ofProcesses Leading to Land Degradation andDesertification Under Extensified FarmingSystems in North-East Spain)
DfG – Johannes Ries und Irene Marzolff
Short History 1995 – 2000
Research Project:
Urban Vegetable Production in Dar esSalaam (Tanzania)- GIS-supported Analysis ofSpatial Changes from 1992 to 1999
GTZ/DAAD- Stefan Dongus
FAO 1998 - 2003Evaluation of the FAO “Priority Area of Interdisciplinary Action (PAIA)”, Food for the Cities (Agriculture Department AGS) (David Iaquinta/Axel Drescher)Concept note on the role of School Gardens for Food Security in Developing Countries (Technical Cooperation Department TCO in collaboration with WFP and the FAO TeleFood Programme)Development of a new concept of peri-urban typology based on institutional contexts (David Iaquinta/Axel Drescher)Co-ordination and moderation: FAO/ETC Electronic Conference on Urban and Periurban agriculture on the Policy Agenda (Rural Institutions and Participation Service SDAR and Comparative Agricultural Development Service ESAC)Production of the SPFS Guide for the Implementation of Urban andperi-urban Agricultural Projects in Developing Countries and Countries of Transition (Special Programme for Food security –SPFS), including management practices, irrigation techniques, soil conservation, plant protection.
APT Evaluations related to UPA
• RUAF (Resource Centre for Urban Agrciulture and Forestry) -IDRC/DGIS (2000)
• Cities Feeding People (CFP) IDRC (2001)
• FAO Food for the Cities (FFC) (2002/3)
Short History2000 – 2006
Vulnerability to ill-healthamong nomadic pastoralistsin Chad
A case-study from health-geography
GraFöG/DAAD- Martin Wiese
Short History2000 – 2006
Gis based Urban Environment and Food Security Project in Cagayan de Oro (Philippines), 2002 – 2004
EU-AsiaUrbs- A. Drescher, S. Dongus, J. Gerold, A. Wachtler
Awarded with the BMZ Award „Global vernetzt – lokal aktiv“ (2004)
Press Release of the University: Victory for Freiburg Geography: Gardens for the poor in the Philippines: Federal Ministry gives award to Freiburg Geography for a successful project in Asia
2005 – 2008
Ensuring Health and Food Safety from Rapidly Expanding Wastewater Irrigation in South Asia(with IWMI and ILRI)Duration: 2005 - 2008
Status: ongoing
BMZ/GTZ - Philipp Weckenbrock, Axel Drescher
Main Tasks of APT:
Cartography of irrigatedareas, land use classification, risk assessment, food chain monitoring using GIS, Establishment of a GIS database
Actual Dissertations in AfricaResearch Project:Malaria risk resulting from urban agriculture – persisting misconception or urgent need for mitigation? - GIS-supported spatial analysis in Dar esSalaam (Tanzania)
Swiss Tropical Institute –Stefan Dongus, Axel Drescher
Actual Dissertations in AfricaResearch Project:
Integrating Urban Agriculture in Land Use Planning and Management for Sustainable Development in Tanzania
Wakuru Magigi, Land Use Planner, University of Dar es Salaam,
Axel Drescher