World Food Day Colloquium '40 Years of Farming Systems Research for Food security' Including Justus von Liebig Award for World Nutrition 2011 Schloss Hohenheim, Stuttgart, November 11, 2011 [19.10.11]
Organised by Food Security Center in collobaration with Institute of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics
40 years ago, in November 1971, Hans Ruthenberg at that time professor at the University of Hohenheim, published the first edition of “Farming systems in the tropics”, developing a functional and acceptable classification of various types of farms, farm households and their decision-making in tropical and subtropical agriculture. With his book he contributed significantly to the on-going systems research in agricultural development research. Prof. Dr. Hans Ruthenberg strengthened Hohenheim’s development research activities with his worldwide recognized works on tropical farming systems until his unexpected early death in 1980. His institute was the foundation, upon which the Centre for Agriculture in the Tropics and Subtropics was built.
This year’s World Food Day Colloquium will discuss the farming systems approach under the aspect of its contribution to food security in the past 40 years and its future contribution to research and global food security as well as the necessity of a renewal of the farming systems perspective in light of the new challenges.
