The CDE leads a Cluster of Research Excellence to promote sustainable use of water and land resources together with partners in East Africa. Read about this and many other projects in CDE's Annual Report 2023.

Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, professor at the University of Bern’s Institute of Geography, talks about an ERC research project that tries to highlight how small forest patches in West Africa’s highly fragmented agricultural landscapes support biodiversity and climate protection.

Consuming countries increasingly seek to ensure that value chains are deforestation-free. Learn more about the CDE project, which promotes deforestation-free requirements and traceability systems that prioritize the ecological, sociocultural, and economic well-being of producing countries. Solutions are being tested in designated pilot sites in Ethiopia, with a focus on the coffee sector.