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  • Lela Khartishvili sitting on a bench
    © Elke Stinnig
    activities of scholarship holders

    Developing new models of sustainable community cooperation in mountain regions of Georgia

    APPEAR scholar Lela Khartishvili from Georgia conducted the first research on community based tourism in Georgia and Armenia. The study reveals the role of tourism in community mobilization and sustainable development. It also revealed the challenges and constrains hampering community tourism development in both countries. The research is based on document analysis, qualitative interviews with different stakeholders and the project experiences.
    2 min read · 24. January 2019
  • Sonnia Musyoka sitting on a chair in front of a blue background
    © Sonnia Musyoka
    activities of scholarship holders

    Paper presentation at a conference for sustainable development in dryland environments

    APPEAR scholarship holder Sonnia Musyoka as part of her doctoral work, presented a paper at the Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development in Dryland Environments, that was held at Umma University, in Kenya between 19thand 23rd November 2018. The conference provided an excellent platform for the academia from around the world to engage with the industry, innovators, policy makers, value chain developers, farmers, and service providers among others so that higher education in Africa contributes to solving the problems of natural resources governance in the era of climate change.
    2 min read · 24. January 2019
  • Shop in a little village in the Palestinian Territories
    © Martin Grabner

    Final event of ROOTDEVPAL project in Vienna

    The ROOTDEVPAL team is organising this final event / lecture with the title "Development and/as Resistance: Experiences of an APPEAR-project on Palestine", taking place on Wednesday, 16th of January 2019, 4.15-5.45 pm.
    1 min read · 15. January 2019
  • Bull with red decoration between his horns is tied to a tree.
    © Dominique Ouedraogo

    Selecting the best young bulls in a participatory manner

    Community-based breeding programmes, as implemented in the LoCaBreed project in Burkina Faso, involve all local stakeholders from designing and planning to the implementation. The aim is to improve local cattle breeds, without inclusion of “exotic” genetic material.
    3 min read · 14. January 2019
  • Dr. Basanta Adhikari and a second man holding a certificate
    © Paola di Bella
    Alumni Development Research Researcher

    Former North-South Dialogue scholarship holder Basanta Raj Adhikari received Young Affiliates Award

    On 29th November, 2018 Dr. Basanta Raj Adhikari has received the "Young Affiliates Award" of the World Academy of Sciences - TWAS in Trieste, Italy. He received this prestigious award for his outstanding contribution in the field of natural science. Basanta Raj Adhikari is an assistant professor and researcher at the Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal.
    2 min read · 02. January 2019
  • Portrait of Gichana Zipporah
    © Tomáš Poláčik
    activities of scholarship holders

    PhD Research on aquaculture systems in Kenya

    APPEAR scholarship holder Zipporah Gichana, as part of her doctoral work, presented a paper entitled “Effect of Different Biofilters on Performance of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in a Small-Scale Recirculating Aquaculture System” at the 6th Conference of the Pan African Fish and Fisheries Association, held from 24th to 28th of September 2018 in Malawi. The conference theme was “African fish and fisheries: diversity, conservation, sustainable management and development”.
    3 min read · 02. January 2019
  • picture shows people in the cinema sitting, listening and watching the two panellists who are sitting in the front of the room
    © Anna Wäger / this human world
    Past Events

    Film Days 2018

    In collaboration with the Vienna-based film festival this human world, APPEAR organised an evening at the Top Kino Vienna. In this event, researchers of the APPEAR project ROOTDEVPAL in Palestine were invited as speakers for the discussion after the movie "The Judge".
    2 min read · 20. December 2018
  • Portrait of Hasmik Hovakimyan
    © Varduhi Kolyan
    activities of scholarship holders

    PhD research on participatory approaches to curriculum development in higher education in Armenia

    This summer APPEAR scholarship holder Hasmik Hovakimyan started her empirical data collection for her PhD research and helped support the APPEAR project BOAA. She started with getting acquainted with the organic sector and its stakeholders. To do so she held a series of participatory focus groups discussing various themes relevant to the project.
    4 min read · 20. December 2018
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