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Position: Professor Address: Department of Human Geography Stockholms Universitet SE-106 91 Stockholm Sweden Email: mats.widgren@humangeo.su.se Website: Departmental website

REAL project Final Report Archived in CORDIS

Resilience in East African Landscapes: Identifying critical thresholds and sustainable trajectories – past, present and future REAL Project Web Documentary “CHANGES” Project Information Grant agreement ID: 606879 Start date: 1 September 2013End date: 31 August 2017 Funded under Total cost € 3 968 063,33 Objectives (CORDIS) The strong temporal dynamics of the East African landscape […]

Pastoralists under Pressure exhibit in York

University Of York Open Lectures Date And Time Pastoralists under Pressure: Political, socioeconomic, and climate challenges in East Africa Fri, 8 Nov 2019, 18:30 GMT Add to Calendar Location Stephen Town Meeting Room, JB Morell Library, University of York, York, UK   Description Population growth, climate change and environmental degradation are just some of the challenges […]

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REAL Project Web Documentary “CHANGES” 2017

REAL ITN hosts its final conference in Moshi

Landscape Transformations and Sustainable Trajectories in East Africa– Past, Present and Future On 11 -12 July 2017, the Resilience in East African Landscapes (REAL) ITN hosted its final conference “Landscape Transformations and Sustainable Trajectories in East Africa – Past, Present, Future” at Uhuru Hotel and Conference Centre in Moshi, Tanzania. The conference provided a forum […]

Large Scale ‘Green’ Investments in Tanzania

New Publication by REAL Researcher Mats Widgren in The Journal of Peasant Studies In the latest issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies, Mikael Bergius, Tor A. Benjaminsen and REAL researcher Mats Widgren explore how the green economy mights materialize in Africa by discussing the case of the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT). […]

REAL project management and advisory board meeting

 Warwick July 2016 On 7 July 2016 the REAL ITN management and advisory board met at the University of Warwick.

Field Diary Special Issue: Call for Contributions

The Field Diary is a digital open-access newsletter that highlights and promotes the human perspective of conducting fieldwork anywhere in the world by all groups working for companies, government, development/conservation/missionary NGOs, security, graduate students, and academia. The first issue of the Field Diary brought together a collection of fieldwork-themed stories from many parts of the world including, Kenya, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and New […]

REAL Visits Mount Suswa Conservancy

March 31st is one of my most favourite field visits. It was most honourable to have almost the entire REAL group visit one of my field sites – Mount Suswa, after a conservation training in Nairobi. Not only was visiting Suswa a break from the city, it was an opportunity to visit a conservancy, one conservation […]

Field Diary Call for Contributions

The first issue of the Field Diary brought together a collection of fieldwork-themed stories from many parts of the world including, Kenya, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and New Zealand. It is available here: http://www.real-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Field-Diary-issue-1.pdf The Field Diary is a digital open-access newsletter that highlights and promotes the human perspective of conducting fieldwork anywhere in the world by all groups working for companies, government, development/conservation/missionary […]

REAL MID-TERM MEETING

The REAL mid-term meeting was hosted at the University of Ghent by Prof. Dirk Veschuren and his team. A special thanks to Yoeri Torsy for arranging the details that made it such an enjoyable meeting. From the 15th-19th June 2015, the REAL team members spent time together updating each other on their research progress,discussed the […]

PAA/SAfA Conference 2014

The REAL project was well represented at the jointly held 14th Congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies and the 22nd Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists which took place 14th-18th of July at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Nik Petek presented on Gifts, Feasts, and Social […]

Project Overview – Resilience in East African Landscapes (REAL)

Project summary The strong temporal dynamics of the East African landscape and natural-resource distributions have always encouraged people to innovate and adapt to changing conditions. However, the realities of current social and environmental changes are occurring at unprecedented rates and amplitudes. Increasing population growth, changes in patterns of land tenure, industrialization, weak systems of governance, […]

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