FSC at Tropentag 2019
18-20.09.2019, University of Kassel, Germany
Tropentag is an annual interdisciplinary conference on research in tropical and subtropical agriculture, natural resource management and rural development. This year’s conference theme was “Filling gaps and removing traps for sustainable resources development”. Tropentag 2019 was organised by the Universities of Kassel and Göttingen, Germany. The conference venue was in Kassel.
At the Tropentag 2019 the FSC was represented by the scientific staff Nils Nölle, who hold a poster presentation on latest results of EntoNUTRI project
Several FSC scholars joined the Tropentag 2019 with the following contributions:
- Habtamu Demilew Yismaw: “Farmers' Adaptation and Coping of Climate Variability-induced Shocks in Ethiopia: Disentangling Household-specific Determinants of ex-ante and ex-post Strategy Choices”
- Isaac Balume: “Nitrogen Dynamics from Seasonal and Perennial Legume Residues in Mushinga South-Kivu Eastern, DR Congo” and “Residue Quality and Agro-Ecological Effect of Microbial Prokaryotes Abundance in Agricultural Soils; Ethiopia and DRC”
- Nuttapon Khongdee: “Difficult Time for Maize Cropping: How Can we Sustain it under Climate Extremes?”
- Pride Ebile: “Contributions of Home Gardens to Vegetable Biodiversity: A Case Study of Eco-Sustainable Gardens Empowering Minority Women in Cameroon”
FSC South-South scholar Michael Bawa, who has had his research stay at the University of Hohenheim in September 2019 (link), has as well attended the Tropentag 2019.
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