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Mirja Michalscheck

mirja.michalscheck@wur.nl

last contributed to D+C/E+Z in spring 2017 as a PhD candidate at Wageningen University (Farming Systems Ecology Group). She has been working for Africa RISING since 2013 in Zambia, Ethiopia and Ghana.  

All articles of Mirja Michalscheck

Rural development
Mirja Michalscheck

May we participate in your lives?

To cooperate well with smallholder farmers, we must understand what they do and how they think

Wastage
Mirja Michalscheck

Thirsty city

Private households in Amman could use much less water

Health
Ghadeer Mohammed
Maika Müller
Mirja Michalscheck
Muhammad Khalifa

Simple, but effective

The tradition of puryfing drinking water with clay filters deserves to be revitalised in the Arab World

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