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The International Chair in Mathematical Physics and Applications (ICMPA - UNESCO chair), University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin, and the Center for Applied Mathematics of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Niš, CAM-FMEN, organized a webinar on Mathematics for human flourishing in the time of COVID-19 and post COVID-19, 21 October 2020, supported by the City of Niš. The objectives of the webinar were to give precise information about the work that scientists do to cure the disease, to push forward technology, to understand our society and create new expressions of humanity, and to question the role of mathematics in the responses to this pandemic.
Dramatic increases in food prices, as witnessed on a global scale in recent years, threaten the food security of hundreds of millions of the rural poor in Sub-Saharan Africa alone. This book focuses on recent food and financial crises as they have affected Africa, illustrating the problems using country case studies, that cover their origins, effects on agriculture and rural poverty, their underlying factors and making recommendations as to how such crises could best be addressed in the future.
Johannes (John) Kesler (1728-1823) immigrated from Germany or Switzerland to Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and married Eva Dorothea Leman about 1755. They later moved to Botetourt County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, Arkansas, Washington, California, Arizona, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, New Mexico, Tennessee, Oklahoma and elswhere.
Hans Zimmerman (1720-1786) and a brother, Christian Zimmerman (d.1787) were two of the sons of Glause Zimmerman of Europe. They were Mennonites who emigrated from the Palatinate to Philadelphia in 1732, but probably were descendants of Swiss immigrants to the Palatinate. Hans married Anna K. Webber and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, Ohio, Iowa, Nebraska, California and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Ontario, and progeny lived in Ontario, British Columbia and elsewhere in Canada.
Jacob M. Weik married Susannah Moir in 1783 in Rowan County, North Carolina. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in North Carolina, Arkansas, Louisiana and Missouri.