Team & Contact

Librarian
Head of the DITSL-Library and Archive

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Phone: +49 (0) 5542 607 13

Training

Claudia Blaue is a qualified librarian for higher service in academic libraries. She was trained at the library school in Frankfurt am Main and at the University Library of Kassel.

Career and Field of Duty

After having worked for several years at the University Library of Osnabrück in the Department of Vechta and at the Federal Finance Administration in Münster, she became head of the DITSL-Library in 1995. The Library of DITSL owns about 46,000 monographs and about 1,400 journal titles, approximately 70 of which are continuously published.

Claudia Blaue administers the partly historical library collection as well as the lending system. She also initiates collection additions and new acquisitions. In order to make historical and rare works available to scientists she arranges conservation, restoration and binding measures and, as appropriate, the creation of facsimile reprints in cooperation with relevant publishers, book binding businesses and book shops. In addition, Ms. Blaue supervises the extensive archives of the DITSL and the former German Colonial School in Witzenhausen.

Ms. Blaue possesses comprehensive knowledge about the special collections on tropical and subtropical agriculture, as well as on German colonial history. She is a qualified person of contact concerning these topics and the history of the German Colonial School at Witzenhausen.

	Post-Doctoral Researcher Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Phone: +49 (0) 5542 607 18 Publication List
Training	Pamela Ngwenya studied Geography at the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford. She completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford Centre for the Environment in 2009 with a thesis entitled ‘The Ethical Geographies of Caribbean Sugar’. Her research addressed the ethics and politics of Caribbean sugar traded under Europe's 'Sugar Protocol' agreement and drew upon a diverse set of ethical philosophies, qualitative research methods and empirical data. She is also a Participatory and Community Video facilitator.
Career	From 2010-14, Pamela was an Andrew Mellon scholar and then Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Built Environment and Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, primarily focused on research and writing. She undertook an action research project in Zimbabwe on the subject of sustainable agro-food initiatives with an emphasis on public-oriented multi-media outputs. As part of the Fellowship, she also worked with the Centre for Civil Society to establish a community video resource, running workshops with over 100 community-based trainees. Over the past 8 years, Pamela has also managed and implemented several film projects and video training programs with youth, farming and women’s groups in the UK, the Caribbean and Southern Africa.
Experience abroad	Lived and/or undertaken research in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, Tanzania, Barbados, Jamaica, St Kitts, U.S.A.
Research	As a geographer, Pamela is interested in the inter-relations of social and material worlds, and has a wide range of research interests including agri-food studies, feminist geography, collaborative methodologies and bio-philosophies. She is currently collaborating on the Trans-SEC project in Tanzania, with a focus on participation, gender and socio-cultural patterns of difference. Her PhD research explored the ethical dimensions of an agri-food network and developed innovative modes of enquiry, including video methods, which sought to deepen attention to situated knowledges, embodiment and ecological agencies. Building on this, her postdoctoral studies in Zimbabwe focused on (1) the relations between socio-ecological imagination and transformative practice, and (2) participatory video as a tool for visioning the future, whilst developing public-oriented multi-media outputs as a form of scholar-activism.
Current Research Projects	Gender and socio-cultural differences in participative stakeholder systems and knowledge transfer within the GlobE project Trans-SEC: Innovating Strategies to safeguard Food Security using Technology and Knowledge Transfer: A people-centred Approach - funded by BMBF. Social Sciences: Knowledge, collaborative learning and action” within the GlobE project ReLOAD: Reduction of Post Harvest Losses and Value Addition in East African Food Value Chains - funded by BMBF
Teaching	At DITSL, Pamela Ngwenya is involved in co-supervision of MSc and PhD students. At the University of KwaZulul-Natal, she lectured on ‘Sustainable Cities and Development’ and as a PhD student at the University of Oxford, she tutored social geography and ran a Masters reading group on embodied geographies. She has considerable experience with facilitating the practical learning of video production skills in community contexts.

	PhD Student Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Phone: +49 (0) 5542 607 24 Mobile: +49 (0) 152 14947834 Skype: guyomal
Training	Guyo studied Bsc Environmental Planning and Management degree at the Kenyatta University (Kenya) and masters degree in Energy Policy from the University of Dundee (United Kingdom).
Career	Prior to joining the German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL), at the Faculty of Organic Agriculture, University of Kassel, Guyo gained over six years of interdisciplinary work experience at both the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) which have primed him to engage in policy research and engagement of multiple stakeholders in policy and natural resource arena. He served as a senior programme officer in the drylands programme, where he was responsible for programme management, working with different actors from the local communities, and as a part of a regional platform for policy and practice change. In his research he builds on his drylands expertise, and work experience to advance the academic knowledge frontier, and contribute to the practitioner world through transdisciplinary action research among pastoral community of Northern Kenya.
Research	His main research interest is on Socio-ecology of Pastoral systems, multi-actor governance, and interaction processes in complex food value chain, global food futures, and environmental change among others. He is undertaking his research on “using multi-actor approaches for collaborative learning in pastoral meat value chains in Northern Kenya”, under the project funded under a Global Food Security programme (BMBF GlobE), titled “Reducing Losses and Adding Value in East African Food Value Chains (ReLOAD)”. The PhD research particularly looks at the value chain actors, their activities and needs with the final aim of identifying options for improving actors´ interaction, flows (information and products) and influence coordination in the pastoral meat value chain.

	Co-Supervised Student (ReLOAD Project) National Museums Kenya Fellow Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Phone: Skype:
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Claudia Blaue

Pamela Ngwenya (PhD Geography)

Guyo Malicha Roba (MSc Energy Policy)

Buke Dabasso Galma