Food Security Center

DAAD Alumni Summer School in Hohenheim

September 8, 2013

The Tropenzentrum facilitated this year’s DAAD summer school. The "Tropenzentrum", in English the "Center for Agriculture in the Tropics and Subtropics", hosted the course from September 8 to 16. It was targeting German university DAAD alumni from developing countries  who are working in research, academic or educational institutions, NGOs, the public sector, development organizations or private enterprises and who are professionally involved in the fields of resource use and management (esp. water), land use planning and food security.  
The main topics of the summer school were:

  • Natural resource use, food security and poverty alleviation
  • Water resource management
  • Interdependencies of water, food and energy in the light of demographic developments
  • Crop production within the water cycle
  • Land use planning and modelling
  • Watershed management
  • Use of waste water
  • Resource efficient agricultural production

The Food Security Center contributed on September 13 to the summer school with a module "Water for Life – Source of Food Security".