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Tropentag 2024
September 11 - September 13
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).
Tropentag 2024 (TT24) will be organised as a hybrid ‘green event’ by the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU University), Austria (Insitute and Cluster for Development Research), in cooperation with ATSAF e.V.
Tropentag 2024 will have an in-person conference, but all oral presentation sessions will be streamed live via our conference app. There will also be in-person poster presentation sessions and pre and post-conference workshops – these will not be streamed but will be available on thier website.
The organisers will ensure that TT24 attendees can interact with the presenters, chairs- and participants. All MSc and PhD students, scientists, extension workers, decision-makers and policy-makers interested in natural resources management, agricultural research, and rural development in transition and developing countries are cordially invited to attend and actively contribute. We encourage early stage researchers (MSc and PhD students) to participate.
The Tropentag 2024 conference theme “Explore opportunities… for managing natural resources and a better life for all” and it addresses issues such as the urgently needed transformation in agriculture and food systems, agroecology, livestock management, food and nutrition sovereignty, forestry, sustainable water resources and fisheries, environmental conservation, socio-ecology, structural inequalities in the governance of natural resources based on gender, age, socio-economic status and other social categories, in the context of rural development, sustainable natural resources management, and poverty alleviation worldwide.
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