Retrospectives and Records

• Interrogating and Decolonizing Knowledge in Postcolonial Africa

• September 24, 2025: Public Talk on the Digitalization of Agriculture in Ghana and Its Implications for Smallholder Farmers

• May 5, 2025 Book Presentation: “Global Partnerships and Neocolonialism”

• To Stay or to Go? Recruitment and Migration of Health Care Personnel from the Global South—Part 1
• To Stay or to Go? Recruitment and Migration of Health Care Personnel from the Global South - Part 2

• Anti-Semites! An Accusation as an Instrument of Domination in German and Israeli Foreign and Domestic Policy—Moshe Zuckermann

• June 9: Public Talk on China-Africa Agricultural Cooperation
• June 13: Public Talk on Post-Development

• The Sustainable Development Goals: Old Wine in New Bottles?
• Post-Development—Questioning the Entire Paradigm

• Research Grant MA (Deadline: June 15)
• Wangari Maathai Professorship (Deadline: June 30)
• Three-Month Visiting Researcher (Deadline: June 30)

Newsletter - December 2021 is now available

News from the GPN Network:

• 2021 Rural Women’s Day: A Message from a Jamaican Rural Women’s Leader

• Event: Female farmers from Latin America and the Caribbean share their stories of fighting inequality

Webinar: Oct. 29: Global Partnership and Neocolonialism

Event: Oct. 18: Online Public Talk: Battleground Agriculture: Indian Farmers’ Resistance to Neoliberalism

Event: Oct. 14–16: National Forum in Haiti: Agroecology and Food Sovereignty: For Food Systems in Line with Popular Demands

Webinar: Oct. 13: Mediterranean Food Systems in Conflict and Crisis

Webinar: Oct. 13: Decolonization and Development

Event: September 15: First event of the AURORA project

Report: Final Declaration of the Workshop on Food Systems in Haiti [ ENG / FR ]

Haiti: Earthquake and Tropical Storm—Statements

• Solidarity Note by the GPN

• Blog post by Katja Maurer (medico international) in English and German

Interview: Newspaper interview (TAZ) with Aram Ziai (published Aug. 18, 2021)

Recording: Pre-Summit Synthesis Plenary: The World’s Food Producers (by Tamisha Lee)

Event: Workshop on food systems in Haiti (taking place in Haiti)

Job: Student Assistant (approx. 35 hours/month)

Call for Applications: MA Thesis Research Grant Program 2021 (due June 20, 2021)

Event: Public Advocacy Series: Sustainable Rural and Agricultural Development

Public Talk Recording: Global Partnerships, Global Finance, and Uneven Inclusion (by Prof. Dr. Juvaria Jafri)

Webinar Series: Fridays, May 7–June 11, 2021: The International System of Power

Call for Applications: Thomas Sankara PhD Scholarships

Book: Ziai, A. (2015). Development Discourse and Global History: From Colonialism to the Sustainable Development Goals (1st ed.). Routledge.

GPN Working Paper: Jafri, J. (2021). Partnerships and Development: Emerging Issues with Digital Financial Inclusion

Event: March 9: Public Talk: Global Partnerships, Global Finance, and Uneven Inclusion, by Prof. Dr. Juvaria Jafri (Wangari Maathai Visiting Professor at GPN)

Event: Jan. 25–29: Training & Empowerment Workshop: Rural Women’s Empowerment and Recovery Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

Event: Jan. 26: Training Workshop: Impact of COVID-19 and Climate Change on Vulnerable Women

Event: Jan. 16: Policy Workshop: Framework workshop for actors and experts in political governance in Burkina Faso on the theme:“
: Building and Stabilizing Political Institutions (Post-Election) in West Africa—The Case of Burkina Faso”

Event: Jan. 7–8: Empowerment Workshop:“”—Ghana Permaculture Institute Empowerment Program for Smallholder Farmers in the Bono East Region

Event: Nov. 19–20: Academic & Training Workshop: School Governance and Territorial Development: What Roles for the Local Elite?

Call for Applications: Wangari Maathai Visiting Professorship (academic years 2020–2024)

Press Release: New GPN Guest Professorship Named After Kenyan Environmental and Women’s Rights Activist Wangari Maathai

Press Release: The GPN names its PhD scholarships after Thomas Sankara

Event: Oct. 30 & Nov. 2: Online Kick-off Conference

News: The GPN is featured in the University of Kassel’s newspaper

Call for Applications: Thomas Sankara PhD Scholarships at the GPN

Call for Applications: PhD Scholarships at the GPN

Call for Applications: GPN Visiting Professor Program