Welcome to the sixth episode of the Africast podcast!In today's episode, Prof. Dr. Walter Timo de Vries, who leads the chair of land management at TUM, talks about land use in Africa and which problems occur.He also talks about the TUM Africa Initiative, a network of African universities, which cooperate with TUM to strengthen academic projects in African nations.

TUM Chair of Land Management: https://www.lrg.tum.de/en/bole/home/ADLAND consortium: https://nelga.org/nelga-2/affiliates/adland/

What is the Africast podcast?Africast started as a group project within the scholarship program of the TUM: Junge Akademie. The three students behind this project are Jaimee Lau, Marius Merkle and Patrick Sowinski, all of them students at the Technical University of Munich with different study backgrounds. Currently, a total of seven podcast episodes is planned to be released in 2019. The guests will range from students and academic workers to researchers and professionals from Ghana. Our goal is to raise awareness for academic projects in Ghana and to help people from Germany and Europe to learn more about them. The project was inspired by the TUM Africa Initiative, which aims to strengthen the collaboration between the TUM and different universities in Africa.

In the next episode, Collins Agyemang will talk about start-ups in Ghana!

Links:TUM: Junge Akademie - https://www.ja.tum.de/en/home/Info about Africa Initiative: https://www.tum.de/nc/en/about-tum/news/press-releases/details/35122/UCC: https://ucc.edu.gh/KNUST: https://www.knust.edu.gh/

Intro music:Rollin at 5 by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/