Paul Jimmy holds a Ing. Agr. Dipl. in Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology and a MSc in Sociology of Natural Resources from the University of Parakou, Benin.

Jimmy worked for the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agronomy, University of Parakou as a Research Assistant. Besides, he also worked as Independant Consultant on behalf of national and international development organisations such as DEDRAS NGO, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), German Cooperation (GIZ), and Bornefonden in the fields of Agricultural Value Chain Development and gender, Project Evaluation, Local food value chains and food aid procurement to schools.

As researc Assistant, Paul participated in many research projects and had opportunity to broaden my background and strengthen his skills in theoretical and empirical perspectives related to a diverse range of topics. The most important are: collective actions and conflict analysis in common resources (e.g., rice intensification- based irrigation systems); performance analysis of participatory video use in agricultural extension; and women knowledge systems and local dairy processing in agropastoral settings. His research experiences led him to publish five peer reviewed papers, two of which topping in internationally renowned impact factor journals: European Journal of Development Research (IF=1,1) and Cahiers Agricultures (IF=0,32).

Paul is currently undertaking  his PhD under NaviNut Project « Enhancing women’s agency in navigating changing food environments to improve child nutrition in African drylands », a transdisciplinary project jointly initiated by the German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL) and partners in Benin and Kenya, under the funding of Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). His research focuses on understanding social and cultural embeddedness of child-feeding practices in agro-pastoral settings in Northern-Benin

Co-supervised PhD student

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Before starting his PhD study, Chérif ISSIFOU worked as consultant in Nutrition and food security in a study and consulting cabinet (FIDEXI-Conseil) in Benin republic.

His research is focused on child feeding knowledge and practices. His PhD Study, supervised by Prof. Waliou AMOUSSA HOUNKPATIN from of University of Abomey-Calavi and Prof. Brigitte KAUFMANN from DISTL, is undertaken under a transdisciplinary research project (NaviNut) , Chérif is focalize on Valorization of endogenous knowledge of children  caregiver’s in order to  co-development behavior change communication tools in Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF).

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Lilian Beck completed her MSc in Agroecology at the Swedish University of Agriculture in year 2018. She did her BA in Cultural Anthropology and Sciences of Education at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. Complementary she completed several courses in Social work and Ethics at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and Organic Agriculture at University Kassel.

From 02/2019 to 10/2020 she had been working as International Field Specialist for the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Cambodia facilitating participatory processes to identify climate-smart agricultural approaches and developing outreach materials such as a handbook on agroforestry.

From 07/18 to 01/2019 she had been working as Collaborative Researcher conducting an action research on alternative extension service for the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and from 03/2017 to 09/2017 on barriers to adoption of agro-ecological approaches for her Master’s Thesis also with CIAT in Cambodia.

For her Bachelor’s thesis she undertook an Anthropological field study in an organic cotton cooperative in Kyrgyzstan, from 7/2013 to12/2013.

Lilian conducts her PhD project on “Inter-organizational learning activities to boost agroforestry dissemination”, for which she enrolls at University Hohenheim. The PhD project is supported by the scholarship program of the ATSAF ACADEMY and supervised by Prof. Dr. Kaufmann and Dr. Delia Catacutan from the world agroforestry Center (ICRAF). Lilian has a special interest in the farmer first approach, transdisciplinary action research, and participatory video making. Her focus study areas are indigenous cultures, agro-ethnology, agroecology, agroforestry, climate-smart agriculture and communication and extension

Austria (3months), Cambodia (3years), Belgium (1month), France (1month), Indonesia (2months), Kirgizstan (5months), Laos (1month), Sweden (1,5 years), and Vietnam (2months).

Lilian is involved in the Kazakhstan-Russia-Germany partnering SAGRIS project “Improving postgraduate education in sustainable agriculture and future agro-systems” and assists in developing a PhD module on Transdisciplinary research

B.A. Ethnologie

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Veröffentlichungen

Im Rahmen seines Studiums absolvierte Martin Nadarzinski verschiedene Praktika in unterschiedlichen Museen (Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Centre Charlemagne – Neues Stadtmuseum Aachen, Museum Wiesbaden, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum Köln – Kunst und Kulturen der Welt). Dazu arbeitete er als studentischer Kurator in der Ausstellung „Plakatiert! Reflexionen des indigenen Nordamerikas“, die in Kooperation mit dem Institut der Ethnologie der Goethe-Universität und dem Weltkulturenmuseum Frankfurt am Main realisiert wurde