Background & Objectives
“Enhancing food and income securityy
along agricultural commodity chains”
held September 8th 2015
to 15th 2015 (departure date to Berlin)
in Witzenhausen, Germany
“Tropentag 2015”
September 16th – 19th 2015
in Berlin, Germany
The seminar and conference visit is part of the program DAAD Alumni Special Projects. The seminar is organized and hosted by the Department of Agricultural Engineering in the Tropics and Subtropics of the Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences of the University of Kassel (Prof. Dr. Oliver Hensel) and DITSL Witzenhausen in close cooperation with the University of Göttingen, Department of Crop Sciences (Prof. Dr. Elke Pawelzik).
The costs will be mainly covered by funds from the DAAD provided by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
The seminar targets German University alumni from developing countries (DAC country nationals) who studied, carried out research or worked in Germany (at a University or research institution) for at least 3 months and are presently living and working in their home countries. The alumni should be professionally involved in development oriented tropical and subtropical agriculture and/or natural resource management, public or private sector development, and should be working for academic or educational institutions, development organizations, NGO's, donor agencies or private enterprises. The prospective participants should be potential multipliers in a position to spread the acquired knowledge and experience and/or take decisions on implementation.
The seminar will promote exchange between the participants in the field of tropical and subtropical agriculture, facilitate international scientific cooperation and qualify the participants in the field of enhancing food and income security along agricultural commodity chains. The seminar will foster exchange of experiences, establishment of international networks between the participants, scientific discourse with regard to tropical agriculture and natural resource management, and international academic cooperation in this field. It will stimulate and promote ideas for joint research, technology development and knowledge transfer.