Reminder: Tropentag 2023
The annual interdisciplinary conference on research in tropical and subtropical agriculture, natural resource management and rural development (Tropentag) is jointly organised by the universities of Berlin, Bonn, Göttingen, Hohenheim, Kassel-Witzenhausen, ZALF e.V. (all Germany), Ghent University (Belgium), Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (Czech Republic), BOKU Vienna (Austria), and the Council for Tropical and Subtropical Research (ATSAF e.V) in co-operation with the GIZ Fund International Agricultural Research (FIA).
The Tropentag is a development-oriented and interdisciplinary conference. It addresses issues of resource management, environment, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food, nutrition and related sciences in the context of rural development, sustainable resource use and poverty alleviation worldwide.
The need to transform food systems is ever more pressing. COVID-19, climate change, conflicts, wars, and growing social and income inequalities are exposing the vulnerabilities of our food systems. Although food systems are producing as much food and calories as ever before, global crop and dietary diversity are steadily declining. This has increased the vulnerability of our environment and food production to climatic shocks, with negative impacts on human nutrition and health. Rising food and fuel prices make healthy diets less affordable, particularly for the most marginalized. Food systems provide many jobs, but many of these jobs, especially those held by women, are insecure, underpaid and unsafe. The importance of looking at food systems as a whole and transforming them to be just, equitable and sustainable has been widely recognised.
The oral presentations of the Tropentag 2023 will be organised in four sessions, probably six parallel thematic groups. Posters will be presented in parallel guided poster sessions The exact time frame of these sessions will be communicated after selection of the submitted abstracts.
Extended abstract submission deadline: 8 May 2023