Carolin Rosenberg

ResearcherCarolin Rosenberg, M.A.

Room: LS 118c
Phone: +49 (0)203-379-1436
E-Mail: carolin.rosenberg[at]uni-due.de

▶ Research Focus
▶ Publications
► Research Projects
▶ Transfer Activities
▶ Curriculum Vitae

Research Focus

  • Rural development
  • Food security
  • Gender-transformative approaches
  • Financial inclusion in the rural area
  • Media framing of conflicts and wars

Selected Publications

► Berks, Milena / Breitung, Claudia / Hartmann, Christof / Hummler, Teresa / Leonhard, Lucas K. / Müller-Koné, Marie / Noesselt, Nele / Rosenberg, Carolin / Ulbert, Cornelia / Vüllers, Johannes (Koordination) / Wunderlich, Carmen (Koordination) 2026: Reset der EZ?! Entwicklungszusammenarbeit als Schlüssel zu nachhaltigem Frieden. Nachhaltiger Frieden. in: Friedensgutachten 2026. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 69-89.

► Gaesing, Karin / Bliss, Frank / Rosenberg, Carolin 2025: Gender-Transformative Approaches in Development Cooperation: Analyses and Recommendations (AVE-Study 46b). Duisburg: Institute for Development and Peace

► Rosenberg, Carolin 2025: Strengthening Women's Voice and Leadership : Gender Impacts of Agricultural Cooperatives in Zambia (AVE-Studie 45b). Duisburg: Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden.

► Rosenberg, Carolin 2025: SIERRA LEONE: Transforming Gender Norms Through the Gender Model Family Approach (Good-Practice-Series 33b). Duisburg: Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden.

► Gaesing, Karin / Bliss, Frank / Rosenberg, Carolin 2025: Conceptualisation and Implementation of Gender-Transformative Approaches in Development Cooperation (AVE-Studie 40b). Duisburg: Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden.

► Gaesing, Karin / Bliss, Frank / Rosenberg, Carolin / Ache, Mika 2024: Agricultural Financing for Smallholder Farmers in Development Cooperation. Analyses and Recommendations (AVE-Studie 38b). Duisburg: Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden.

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Research Projects

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Current Projects

► Peace Report 

Finished Projects

► Ways out of Poverty, Vulnerability and Food Insecurity

Transfer Activities

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Public events:

Oral presentation "The role of cooperatives in strengthening the leadership and voice of women – Evidence from Zambia", Gender in Food, Land and Water Systems Conference 2025, Cape Town, 7.-9.10.2025

Oral presentation "Transforming gender norms through the Gender Model Family approach: Evidence from Sierra Leone", Tropentag, Bonn, 10.-12.9.2025

Poster presentation "The role of cooperatives in strengthening the leadership and voice of women: Evidence from Zambia", Tropentag, Bonn, 10.-12.9.2025

Oral presentation "Why female farmers cannot farm their land to the full potential - intersectional causes for poverty", Tropentag, Vienna, 11.-13.9.2024

Poster presentation „Promotion of mechanisation for smallholder farmers: insights and learnings from Zambia”, Tropentag, Berlin, 20.-22.9.2023

Workshop “Needs and offers for agricultural finance for smallholder farmers” (co-organized with Dr. Karin Gaesing and Mika Ache), Tropentag, Berlin, 20.-22.9.2023

Publications for practice:

Good practice series and AVE studies of the AVE project

Contributions to the peace report

Berks, Milena / Breitung, Claudia / Hartmann, Christof / Hummler, Teresa / Leonhard, Lucas K. / Müller-Koné, Marie / Noesselt, Nele / Rosenberg, Carolin / Ulbert, Cornelia / Vüllers, Johannes (Koordination) / Wunderlich, Carmen (Koordination) 2026: Reset der EZ?! Entwicklungszusammenarbeit als Schlüssel zu nachhaltigem Frieden. Nachhaltiger Frieden. in: Friedensgutachten 2026. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 69-89.

Birchinger, Sophia / Bliss, Frank/ Debiel, Tobias (Coordination) / Gaesing, Karin / Haidara, Boubacar / Kemmerling, Birgit / Müller-Koné, Marie / Rinck, Patricia (Coordination) / Rosenberg, Carolin / Saalfeld, Jannis / Schetter, Conrad / Schmitz, Jasmin / Witt, Antonia 2024: Frieden und die Nachhaltigkeitsziele: Warum das Lokale zählt / Nachhaltiger Frieden, in: Friedensgutachten 2024. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 71-91.

Brunke, Laura Isabella / Debiel, Tobias / Isikozlu, Elvan / Perras, Clara / Rinck, Patricia / Rosenberg, Carolin / Scheyer, Victoria / Ulbert, Cornelia / Wirkus, Lars / Wisotzki, Simone / Wunderlich, Carmen 2022: Nachhaltiger Frieden: Gender, Diversität und Gewalt, in: Friedensgutachten 2022. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 69-88.

Curriculum Vitae

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Since August 2023
Doctorate at the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF), University of Duisburg-Essen

January 2023 - October 2025
Researcher at the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF), University of Duisburg-Essen, Project: Ways out of Poverty, Vulnerability and Food Insecurity (AVE)

Mai 2022 - Juli 2023
Researcher at the Institute of Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen

February 2020 - June 2022
Research Assistant at the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF), University of Duisburg-Essen

Since May 2019
Volunteering with Weitblick Duisburg-Essen e.V., Duisburg

October 2018 - February 2023
Study in International Relations and Development Policy (M.A.), University of Duisburg-Essen

September 2017 – December 2017
Internship in the India Department of Aktionsgemeinschaft Solidarische Welt e.V. (ASW), Berlin

October 2014 – February 2018
Study in Social Sciences (B.A.), Philipps University Marburg