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In February 2025, a meeting in Kigali was organized by our research group to share diverse insights on social-ecological restoration among a range of different organizations representing both research and practice. The meeting resulted in seven concrete recommendations for improved restoration practice in Rwanda. These recommendations have been shared with policymakers in the position paper […]

Following the Rwanda Restore project kick-off in Kigali in January 2024, and a restoration stakeholder conference held in Kigali from February 19 to 21, 2025, the “living lab for social-ecological restoration in western Rwanda” sub-project of the “A Social-Ecological Systems Approach to Inform Ecosystem Restoration in Rural Africa” DFG Research Unit, Kicked-off the Living Lab […]

Following the workshop and conference in Kigali from February 19 to 21, 2025, Dr. Dula Wakassa Duguma and Susanne Vögele visited three pre-selected living lab sites in one of the two designated cells in Rutsiro district. These sites were presented on February 24 by SP7 team member Dr. Apollinaire William, who leads the planning and […]

Our DFG research unit on social-ecological restoration, in collaboration with the University of Rwanda and its Center of Excellence in Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management (CoEB), held a mini-conference on February 21, 2025, in Kigali, Rwanda. The yearly event brought together stakeholders actively engaged in ecosystem restoration science and practice, providing a platform to share […]

A year ago a consortium of German universities, in collaboration with the University of Rwanda and its Center of Exellence in Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management, started ecosystem restoration research in Western Rwanda. Over the past year the team has been actively engaged in stakeholder workshops, household interviews, tree population assessments and a range of […]

Prof. Dr. Joern Fischer (Leuphana University, RESTORE coordination – SP1, SP8), Prof Dr. Stefan Sieber (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/ZALF – SP7) and Dr. Katharina Löhr (ZALF/HUB – SP4) jointly chaired two sessions on social-ecological restoration in the Global South at the landscape2024 conference in Berlin (16.-20.09.2024). The first session kicked off with a keynote by Joern […]

Preliminary results of photovoice research for SP6 In this blogpost Laura Kmoch shares reflections and preliminary results from her first fieldwork for our research unit’s subproject six. Having spent the past months in the project’s study landscapes, she just returned to Kigali – ready to share her experiences with you.  The glittering paths of Rwanda […]