Alumni Workshop - Hohenheim - Berlin 2023

DAAD Agriculture-Alumni Network - Workshop

Paradigm shifts in tropical Agriculture – synthesis and way forward

Agriculture provides food and nutrition security, employment, environmental and socio- cultural services for billions of households in Africa. However, rising populations, degraded environmental resources and climatic change are among the considerable risks facing the future of sustainable agricultural production. How can the plurality of these paradigms and associated practices be synthesised and what is the way forward?

To discuss these pertinent questions, the DAAD Agriculture-Alumni Network is organizing a workshop in Stuttgart and Berlin, Germany. The theme for this workshop is 'Paradigm shifts in tropical agriculture - Synthesis and way forward'.

This initiative will bring together German university alumni from eastern Africa for a 7-day workshop hosted by the University of Hohenheim including the international Tropentag conference.

Time: 17th – 24th September 2023 - Hohenheim - Berlin

The entire program will last from 17th to 24th September 2023, participants are expected to arrive on 16th September and accommodation will be provided until 24th September.

Program highlights

Workshop at the University of Hohenheim with on-site visits and specialised seminars in Meiereihof, Heidfeldhof and Kleinhohenheim research facilities.
State of the art work-shop contributions of international scientists addressing paradigm shifts in tropical agriculture and implications for the future.
Introduction of exchange opportunities and tools for German-African Alumni-Networks.
Participation at Tropentag conference in Berlin on the 20th -22nd September 2023 “ Competing pathways for equitable food systems transformation: Trade-offs and synergies”, with an expected 800 international participants and over 100 oral and 300 poster presentations. The Tropentag is the largest European annual interdisciplinary conference on research in tropical and subtropical agriculture, natural resource management and rural development.
Strategy Workshop for multipliers for German-African Alumni-Networks on 23rd September (limited to 10 places).
Option to participate in the Bio-Geosphere Africa (BioGARD) conference at Hohenheim 14th to 15th September, 2023 “Research for Diversity and Sustainable Development in the Face of Climate Change Conference” for selected applicants.