Rob Marchant, Colin Courtney-Mustaphi and Rebecca Kariuki set out for the first ARCC project fieldwork in northern Tanzania in early July 2018. The fieldwork largely involved collecting lake sediment cores from Speke’s Bay in Lake Victoria. It also involved capturing leaf area index (LAI) images and surveying land use and livelihood patterns across northern Tanzania. […]
Participatory Stakeholder Perceptions and Future Scenarios Development Training
Nelson Mandela – African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania, hosted Dr. Claudia Capitani (University of York) who led training workshops on Participatory Scenarios for exploring potential futures for communities and stakeholders (3-11 April 2018). Participants: Claudia Capitani (Leader; University of York, UK, Joint Research Commission European Union, Italy) Francis Makari (NCAA, Tanzania) […]
CHANGES
REAL Project Web Documentary “CHANGES” 2017
African Archaeology Research Day
Welcome to AARD 2017 We are pleased to invite you to the 2017 African Archaeology Research Day (AARD) meeting, which will be hosted on Saturday 25 November at the Department of Archaeology, University of York. The African Archaeology Research Day has been an annual event in the UK since 2002 and the first meeting held […]
Changes. A Web Documentary on the Resilience in East African Landscapes Project
A production by the REAL ITN & IIAC-CNRS/ EHESS 2017 It is our great pleasure to announce the release of the web documentary “Changes” that is based on the insights produced by the Resilience in East African Landscapes (REAL) research and training network. The web documentary constitutes an interactive immersion into the research conducted by […]
Swedish Research Council funded Adaptation & Resilience to Climate Change Project & Publications (2017–2021)
The Vetenskapsrådet (VR, Swedish Research Council) in association with Sida and Formas has funded a multiyear project titled ‘Adaptation & Resilience to Climate Change‘ (Scaini et al., 2024) that runs parallel and has overlapping focal areas to the REAL project. The grant forms part of the VR/Sida/Formas Sustainability and resilience – Tackling climate and environmental change […]
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 […]
A visiting researcher’s story
Like most PhD students determined to make a significant contribution to science and policy through their research, my PhD journey is not an exception. My research had a reached a point where I had to work on that thesis chapter I had always procrastinated to work on. Neither had I the time nor the luxury […]
Film and Poster Exhibition at the Nordic Africa Days 2016
On 23-24 September, the Nordic Africa Days, arranged by the Nordic Africa Institute, took place in Uppsala. REAL participated with an exhibition – “Changes, People & Land in East Africa” – that displayed a trailer of the web documentary we are currently working on as well as posters featuring various aspects of the ongoing research. […]
REAL at the ASAUK conference 2016
REAL had a stream of three panels on the temporal, spatial and social dynamics of human-landscape interactions in East Africa at the African Studies Association of the UK 2016 conference at University of Cambridge in September 2016. The panels were themed ‘past’, ‘present’ and ‘future’, providing different temporal frames for the REAL ESRs to present […]
Workshop: Food Security in Eastern Africa
PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE On 7-8 July 2016 The REAL team gathered at the University of Warwick to discuss the past, present and future of food security in Eastern Africa. The training workshop was held at the Global History & Culture Centre. The meeting started on Thursday 7 July with sessions on budget planning and research […]
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 […]