Contents

• Impressum
• Preface
• Message (Dirk Niebel)
• Plenary speeches
  • Sir Gordon Conway: The Doubly Green Revolution
  • Paul Richards: Marginal People - ``Surplus Youth'' in the Global Taxonomy of Insidious Harm
  • Rattan Lal: Marginal Soils
  
  
• Marginal people
  • Food policy and food security
    • Oral Presentations
      • Manuel Hilscher, Dhusenti Manoharan, Steffen Schweizer, Athena Birkenberg, Pavlos Georgiadis, Joerg Schumacher, Julia Dietrich, Anne Camilla Bellows: Ethics in Agricultural Sciences: Development and Implementation in the University's Curricula
      • Clemens Breisinger, Olivier Ecker, Perrihan Al-Riffai: Economics of the Arab Awakening - From Revolution to Development and Food Security
      • Heike Hoeffler: Exiting Poverty in Rural Kenya - How Much Does Natural Resource Endowment Matter? Results from Poverty Dynamics and Agricultural Life History Interviews
      • Abrham Seyoum Tsehay, Siegfried Bauer: Ultra Poverty and Vulnerability in Northern Highlands of Ethiopia: A Panel Data Evidence
      • Kamiljon Akramov, Ganga Shreedhar, Tanzila Ergasheva: The Global Food Crisis and Food Security in Tajikistan
      • Lu Chen: New Changes, Challenges and Responses for Chinese Rural Institutional System - Empirical Case of Manggang Village in Yunnan, China
    • Posters
      • Xi Zhao, Beatrice Knerr: Evolution of Rural Land Right Systems and China's Internal Migration
      • Deden Dinar Iskandar, Tobias Wünscher, Anik Badhuri: Emission Taxation under the Presence of Bribery: Experimental Evidence Inspired by the Indonesian Case
      • Andre Luiz Aidar Alves, Alcido Elenor Wander: Transaction Costs Arising from Breaches of Legal Contracts - The Case of Judicial Breaches of Contracts of Anticipated Sale Contracts of Soybeans in Brazil
      • Khalid Siddig: A Newly Born State in Africa: Economic and Agricultural Development Prospective
      • Tapiwa Uchizi Nyasulu, Richard Ameyaw Ampadu: Customary Land Access and Accountability in Ghana: Effects of Land Allocation Practices on Local Livelihoods
      • Philipp Baumgartner: Developing Marginal Land through FDI in Commercial Agriculture? Early Impact of ``Land Grab'' in Ethiopia
      • Matthias Waltert, Kadiri Serge Bobo, Olive Yiika Ngalim, Lars Gorschlüter, Christian Kiffner: Is it Really 'All for Africa'? - The Fraudulent Social and Ecological Argumentations of Oil Palm Developing Institutions
      • Riccardo Brozzi, Günter Schamel: Transfer of GMOs Technology in African Least Developed Countries: Relevant Socioeconomic Factors to Consider for a Sustainable Application
      • Rachel Zozo, Wanjiku Chiuri, Dieudonné Katunga Musale, Brigitte L. Maass: Assessing the Importance of Livestock for the Livelihoods of Rural People in South Kivu, DR Congo
      • Fan Yang: An Outlook of World Food Price in 2020 - Determinants, Trend and Alternatives
      • Thomas Kopp, Sören Prehn, Bernhard Brümmer: Preference Erosion: The Case of Everything But Arms and Sugar
      • Christian Rupschus, Claude Maeda, Andrea Düchting, Sonia Starosta, Henri Gebauer, Alfred Gerken, Daniela Bese, V.M. Manyong: Promoting Regional Trade to Enhance Food Security: A Case Study on the Border Region of Tanzania and Zambia
      • Andres Ludovic, Philippe Lebailly: The Assessment of Food Vulnerability in Sahel Countries: Case of the Early Alert System of Niger
      • Kolawole Ogundari: On the Relationship between the Share of Nutrient Consumed across Selected Food Groups and Income in Nigeria: A Long-run Demand System
      • Adam Elhag Ahmed Yassin, Khalid Siddig, Nawal Imam: Do Women Remain a Key to Agricultural Production and Food Security in Sudan? The Case Study of North Kordofan State
      • Tesfaye Shiferaw Sida: Socioeconomic and Ecological Factors that Determine Food Security Levels of Households in Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia
      • Itishree Pattnaik: Scarcity in the Midst of Piling Food Stock: A Case Study of India
  • Markets & consumption
    • Oral Presentations
      • Giulia Secondini, Markus Hanisch: Strategies to Improve Smallfarmers' Market Integration in Marginal Areas: Synergies between Farmer Organisations and Contract Farming
      • Christin Schipmann, Matin Qaim: Modern Food Retailers and Traditional Markets in Thailand: Comparing Quality, Prices, and Competition Strategies
      • Vinzenz B.M. Bauer: Banana (Musa spp. AAA-EA) Marketing in Uganda. Should Bananas be Weighed in the Future?
      • Nithya Vishwanath Gowdru, Wolfgang Bokelmann, Ravi Nandi, Saikumar C. Bharamappanavara: Export Competitiveness of Gherkin in India
      • Tim K. Loos, Manfred Zeller: To Sell or Not to Sell - Maasai Milk Marketing in Ngerengere, Tanzania
      • Michael Ngutu, Isaac Sanga Kosgey, Brigitte Kaufmann: Pastoralist Groups and the Management of Small-stock Marketing Projects in Marsabit County, Kenya
    • Posters
      • Julliet Wanjiku, Ayele Gelan, Sika Gbegbelegbe, Joseph Karugia, Stella Massawe: Challenges and Prospects of Tracking Informal Cross Border Trade in Comesa Region
      • Eddah Nangole, Ben Lukuyu, S. Franzel, Isabelle Baltenweck: The Emerging Livestock Feed Markets in East Africa: A Solution to Feed Shortages?
      • Kwamina Banson, Kenneth Danso, Mohammed Yaro: Improving Market Demand and Productivity Level for an Underutilised Yam (Dioscorea esculenta) in Ghana: Implications for Crop Breeding and Production Choices
      • Stefan Burkart, Federico Holmann, Michael Peters, Volker Hoffmann: SWOT Analysis of Smallholder Livestock Production from the Perspective of Meat Consumers in Colombia and Nicaragua
      • Hillary Kiplangat Bett, Kurt-Johannes Peters, Uche Nwankwo, Wolfgang Bokelmann: Estimating Consumer Preferences and Willingness to Pay for the Underutilised Indigenous Chicken Products
      • Yacinta Esti, Farah Purwaningrum, Renita Sari: Collective Action for the Marketing of Mango in West Java, Indonesia
      • Eyassu Seifu, Kurt-Johannes Peters, Wolfgang Bokelmann: Analysis of Dairy Value Chain: A Case Study of Dire Dawa City, Eastern Ethiopia
      • Raid Al Baqain, Anne Valle Zárate: The Economics of Sheep Farming in Marginal Areas of Jordan and the Palestinian Territories
      • Minette Flora Mendoza De Asis: Overview of Somaliland's Livestock Value Chain: Gender and Institutional Challenges of Women Livestock Traders
      • Nils Teufel, Alan Duncan, Vivek Kumar Singh, Kindu Mekonnen: The Intensification of Milk Production and the Quality of Dairy Marketing
      • Gustavo Henrique de Souza Días, Wolfgang Bokelmann: Determinants for Chain Governance in Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Market: The Case of Northeast Brazil´s Grapes and Mangoes
      • Stephen Wambua, Tobias Wünscher, Meike Wollni: Determinants of Household Fuel Use and Options for Fuel Switching in Rural Western Kenya
  • Livelihood strategies
    • Oral Presentations
      • Axel W. Drescher, Charlie M. Shackleton, Johannes Schlesinger, Hanna Karg: Locating the Margin? Agriculture and Livelihoods Along the Rural-Urban Continuum of African mid-Sized Towns
      • Jaqueline Garcia-Yi, Alicia Garcia, Ulrike Grote: Household Preference Heterogeneity for Organic and Fairtrade Yellow Chilli in Lima, Peru
      • Alwin Keil, Thea Nielsen: Accounting for Farmers' Risk Preferences in Modelling Land Use Decisions in Marginal Environments
      • Mesfin Tilahun, Erik Mathijs, Bart Muys, Liesbet Vranken, Seppe Deckers, Kidanemariam Gebregziabher, Kindeya Gebrehiwot, Hans Bauer: Contingent Valuation Analysis of Rural Households' Willingness to Pay and Contribute Labor for Frankincense Forest Conservation
    • Posters
      • Pradyot Jena, Till Stellmacher, Ulrike Grote, Chichaibelu Bezawit Beyene: Impact of Coffee Certification on Small-scale Producers: A Case Study in Jimma Zone of Ethiopia
      • Armand Asseng Zé, Juliane Masuch, Ousseynou Ndoye: Impact of Laws and Regulations on the Use of Non-wood Forest Products in Central Africa
      • Aske Skovmand Bosselmann: When Eco-agriculture Loses its `eco' - Determinants of Conversion of Shade Coffee among Smallholders
      • Chuthaporn Ngokkuen, Pradyot Jena, Ulrike Grote: Factors Determining Behaviour of Thai Households in Adopting Geographical Indication Certification for Jasmine Rice
      • Anna Segerstedt, Dirk Röttgers, Etti Winter, Ulrike Grote: Efficiency of Market Based Instruments for Protecting Wetlands
      • Lisandra Martínez Moreno, Ulrike Grote, Hildegard Garming, Charles Staver: Organic Banana from Selva Central in Peru: Constraints for Smallholder Profits and Options for Upgrading
      • Elena Mejia: Why Small Producers Do Not Participate in Organic Certified Agriculture? - The Case of Cocoa in the Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon
      • Cristina Maria Romero Granja, Meike Wollni, Fernando Saenz: Standards and Contracts between Small-scale Pineapple Farmers and Exporters in the Huetar Norte Region of Costa Rica
      • Sonam Wangchuk, Siegfried Bauer: The Effect of Conservation Policies on Farm Labor Allocation Decision among Crop Livestock Farmers in Bhutan: A Household Modelling Approach
      • Carlos Padilla Bravo, Achim Spiller, Pablo Villalobos: Factors Determining Farmer Satisfaction with the Organic Certification Process in Chile
      • David M. Eche, Beatrice Knerr, Houman Liaghati: Afghan Migrants Working in Iran's Agricultural Sector: Impacts on the Livelihood Security of their Families Left Behind - Case Study Tehran
      • Anju Upadhyaya, Bishal Ghimire, Shambhu Charmakar: Community Forestry in Nepal: Addressing Livelihoods of the Poor
      • Kadiri Serge Bobo, Emeka Obioha, Roger Ngoufo, Saka Jimoh, Matthias Waltert: Managing Forest Wildlife for Human Livelihoods: A Multi-agent Systems Model to Assess Socio-economic and Ecological Sustainability
      • Khalid Siddig, Amel Mubarak: Food Self-sufficiency or Foreign Currency Earnings? A Multimarket Modelling Assessment for Sudan
      • Lu Chen, Ralf Nolten, Holger Hindorf: Chinese Coffee Farming in Transition
      • Eva Pastorková, Vladimir Verner, Martina Vlková: Changing Face of Homegardens: A Case Study of Phong My Commune, Vietnam
      • Thea Nielsen, Alwin Keil: Are Risk Preferences Consistent Across Assessment Methods? A Comparison of Hypothetical and non-Hypothetical Measures
      • Emelda Hachoofwe, Valentin Gandasegui, Esben Bendixen, Afton Halloran, Cecilie Friis: Beyond Resistance: The Current and Potential Livelihood Strategies of Kampung Kujang Sain, Sarawak Malaysia
      • T. O. Okeno, T. M. Magothe, A.K. Kahi, Kurt-Johannes Peters: Application of Risk-rated Profit Model Function in Estimation of Economic Values for Indigenous Chicken Breeding
      • Ishtiag Faroug Abdalla, Detlev Möller, Jens Gebauer, Andreas Buerkert: Socio-economic Factors Affecting Farm Cash Income in Urban Agriculture in Khartoum, Sudan
      • Gabriele Ott, Cristina Pitassi, Stephanie Promberger: A Strategy for Rural Development: Promoting Entrepreneurial Behaviour among the Youth of Mozambique
  • Communication and adoption
    • Oral Presentations
      • Thomas Miethbauer, Guy Hareau: Participation Is Not for Free: A Cost Study on the Application of Participatory Variety Selection by Mother-and-Baby-trials for Potato Breeding in Peru
      • Maria Chavez Cedeno, Frank Hartwich: Innovation Behaviour among Smallholders: Evidence from the Peach Value Chain in Cochabamba, Bolivia
      • Immaculate Omondi, Isabelle Baltenweck, Siegfried Bauer, Kerstin Zander: Increasing Farmer Participation in Institutional Innovative System: The Case of Dairy Hub Marketing in Kenya:
      • Guy-Erick Akouègnon, Volker Hoffmann, Rainer Schultze-Kraft: Adoption of Resource Management Technologies in Small-scale Farming Systems: A Matter of Resource Poverty or Knowledge Compatibility? Experiences with Legume-based Technologies in Southern Benin and Northern Nigeria
      • Christin Schipmann: Variety Adoption of Orphan Crops by Smallholder Farmers in Tanzania - A Survey Based Choice Experiment
      • Martin Noltze, Stefan Schwarze, Matin Qaim: Understanding Adoption of System Technologies in Smallholder Agriculture: The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Timor-Leste
    • Posters
      • Tekalign Gutu Sakketa, Yitayal Abebe, Merga Muleta, Belay Deressa, Kiyoshi Shiratori, Dawit Alemu: Mobile Phones are Just More than Phones in the Hands of Farmers
      • Irene Susana Egyir, Ramatu Al-Hassan, James Abakah: ICT-based Market Information Services Show Modest Gains in Ghana's Food Commodity Markets
      • Andreas Oswald: Extension Services and Research Demands - A NGO Perspective from four African Countries
      • Ataharul Huq Chowdhury, Rafia Aktar, Florian A. Peloschek, Asaduzzaman Sarker: Participatory Rural Video Centre: An Approach to Support Learning and Farmers' Innovation in Bangladesh
      • Quang Tri Pham, Wolfgang Bokelmann: Interdisciplinary Analysis and Assessment of Innovation Transfer to Farmers in the Red River Delta, Vietnam
      • Anastasiya Shtaltovna: The Role of Agricultural Service Organisations in the Process of Agricultural Transformation in the Khorezm Province, Uzbekistan
      • Laxman Acharya, Johannes Pucher, Iven Schad, Ulfert Focken, Volker Hoffmann: Intensifying Fish Pond Business: An Interdisciplinary Innovation Study on Information Needs of Black Thai Farmers in Chieng Khoi Commune, Vietnam
      • Veronika Jelinkova, Petra Chaloupkova, Lukas Kalous, Miloslav Petrtýl, Jan Banout: The Immediate Social-economic Impacts of an Implemented Project in Northern Vietnam (Lang Son, Cao Bang)
      • Nassul Kabunga, Thomas Dubois, Matin Qaim: Adoption and Productivity Impacts of Biotechnology for Orphan Crops: The Case of Tissue Culture Bananas in Kenya
      • Mostafa Mohamed, Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel, Emad El Shafie, Yasmeen Ammar, Zeinab Magd: Effectiveness of Agricultural Extension Programs in Desert Areas: Case Study of Sugar Beet Program in Egypt
      • Birthe Paul, Faustin Bafunyembaka, Jean-Marie Sanginga, Pieter Pypers, Bernard Vanlauwe: On-farm Participatory ISFM Evaluation Trials in South-Kivu (DRC): Can We Obtain High Quality Biophysical Data?
  • Social systems
    • Oral Presentations
      • Kewin Bach Friis Kamelarczyk: Who Knows? Indigenous versus Scientific Knowledge about Local Forest Change Dynamics in the Zambian Copperbelt
      • Sreejith Aravindakshan: Socioeconomic and Livelihood Impact of Invasive Species on Marginal Homesteads: The Case of Aceria guerreronis on Coconut Palms in India
      • Lucrezia Tincani: Adaptable Livelihoods: Wild Foods, Resilience and Food Security in Rural Burkina Faso
      • Mareike Aufderheide, Clemens Voigts, Christian Hülsebusch, Brigitte Kaufmann: Working Conditions of Self-employed Pastoralists and Employed Herders on Commercial Ranches in Northern Kenya
      • Wildan Syafitri, Beatrice Knerr: Households Migration Decisions in Rural Areas of East Java, Indonesia
      • Jens Frayer, Daniel Müller, Zhanli Sun: Understanding Land Use Decision-making Using Bayesian Networks in Yunnan, China
    • Posters
      • Christina Bantle, Hildegard Garming, Katrin Zander: Setting up Collective Banana Marketing in Central America: The Role of Social and Human Capital
      • Till Stellmacher, Pradyot Jena, Ulrike Grote: Coffee Farmers' Cooperatives as the Basis of Coffee Certification: A Comparative Study in Ethiopia, Nicaragua, and India.
      • Kalpana Devi Devkota: Community Forestry Governance in Nepal: An Analysis from Central to Local Level Stakeholders
      • Heinrich Hagel, Gerhard Clemens, Volker Hoffmann: Local Soil Knowledge in Vietnam's Northern Mountainous Region: A Case Study among Different Ethnic Groups
      • Eva Anggraini, Philipp Grundmann: Transactions and Institutional Arrangements in Oil Palm Production Promoting Land Conversion and Deterioration of Rural Livelihoods in Indonesia
      • Miriam Vorlaufer, Dagmar Mithöfer, Meike Wollni, Fabrice Pinard: Determinants of Collective Marketing Performance: Evidence from Kenya's Coffee Cooperatives
      • Mariana Vidal Merino, Max Krott: Stakeholders, Interests and Power as Drivers of Community Forestry: Case Studies from Ecuador and Peru
      • Iven Schad, Volker Hoffmann: Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives as Laboratories of Social Innovation: Establishing Cooperatives among Ethnic Smallholders in Thailand
      • Saikumar C. Bharamappanavara, Nithya Vishwanath Gowdru: Public Participation in Environmental Management: Joint Forest Management in Developed and Developing Countries - A Review
      • Quy Hanh Nguyen, Ngoc Khanh Van Nguyen: The Common Good for the Few: Double Marginalisation in Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam
      • Reginald Tang Guuroh, Holm Uibrig, Emmanuel Acheampong: Improving Benefits from Marginal Lands: Contribution of Homegardens to Household Income Generation
      • Berhanu Gebremedhin, Moti Jaleta, Samson Jemaneh: Analysis of Household Specific Transaction Cost Factors in Livestock Input Markets in Ethiopia: Implications for Private Sector Development
      • Anja Faße, Ulrike Grote: The Nexus between Poverty and Smallholders' Investments in Agroforestry: A Case Study from Tanzania
      • Martin Wiehle, Sven Goenster, Katja Kehlenbeck, Jens Gebauer, Ali Mohamed Seifeldin, Andreas Buerkert: Socio-economic Factors and Garden Size Affect Plant Species Richness and Diversity of Homegardens of the Nuba Mountains, Sudan
      • Isabelle Kunze, Lydia Betz, Prajeesh Parameswaran Prajeesh, Suma Suma T.R.: (No) Future for Rice in Wayanad: Exploring the Social-ecological Transformation Processes and its Impacts on Marginalised Farmers in South India
      • Muhammad Qasim, Beatrice Knerr: Determinants of Farm-household Income in Marginal Areas: The Case of Rain-fed Farms in Pakistan's Punjab
      • Allan Thomas, Aliyaru Kunju Sherief, Usha C. Thomas, Sreejith Aravindakshan: Structural Configuration and Functional Dynamics of Kerala Homegardens in South India
      • Girma Kelboro, Till Stellmacher: Protected Area Governance: Lessons Learned from NGO Endeavours in Nech Sar National Park, Southern Ethiopia
  
  
• Resource use and services
  • Ecosystem services and biodiversity
    • Oral Presentations
      • Maximilian Weigend, Moritz Mittelbach, Grischa Brokamp: Neotropical Palm Products - Underutilised Ressources for Marginal Lands
      • Jan Henning Sommer, Holger Kreft, Manfred Denich, Wilhelm Barthlott: May Tropical Regions Suffer from a Climate-change Induced Decline of Plant Species Richness?
      • Michael Curran, Laura de Baan, Stefanie Hellweg: Conserving Biodiversity through the ``Polluter Pays Principal'': An Application to Agriculture Driven Land Use
      • Fabian Haas: Does the Convention on Biological Diversity Protect Marginalised and Local People?
      • Tin Zar Kywe, Axel Buschmann, Christoph Kleinn: Habitat Suitability Modelling for Tiger (Panthera tigris) in the Hukaung Valley Tiger Reserve, Northern Myanmar
    • Posters
      • Siti Nurleily Marliana, Ferdinand Rühe: Vegetation Types in the Dieng Mountains and their Effects on Bird and Mammalian Species Richnesses
      • Kadiri Serge Bobo, Towa Olivier William Kamgaing, Matthias Waltert: Bushmeat Hunting and Sustainability of Blue Duiker Off-takes in the Northeastern Periphery of Korup National Park, South-West Cameroon
      • Sharif Ahmed Mukul, Narayan Saha: Ecological Trade-offs between Plant Biodiversity, Land-use and Management Intensification
      • Anne Sennhenn, Jens Gebauer, Fatuma Omari, Emanuela Rohde, Katja Kehlenbeck: Classification of Local Mango Varieties in Kenya by Using a Morphological Characterisation and Identification Approach
      • Phuong Hoang Thi: Managing Kaziranga as a Tiger Reserve: A Landscape Perspective
      • Peter Wolanski, Dieter Wittmann, Sergey G. Dereliev, Bodo Möseler: Adverse Effects of Agrochemicals on Migratory Waterbirds in Africa
      • Nyunt Khaing, Ralph Mitlöhner: Natural Dry Forests: Towards Combating Desert Like Formation in the Central Dry Zone Area, Myanmar
      • Christof Schüepp, Sarah Rittiner, Martin H. Entling: High Hymenopteran Species Richness in Small Scale Farming Systems of Coastal Belize
      • Ana Lucía Cadena González-Thiele, Marten Soerensen: Study of Knowledge on Medicinal Plants in Zetaquira and Campo Hermoso Municipalities, Boyacá-Colombia
      • Jonathan C. Onyekwelu, Bernd Stimm, Reinhard Mosandl, Johnson Adeyinka Olusola: Domestication of Chrysophyllum albidum from Rainforest and Derived Savannah Ecosystems - Phenotype Variation and Selection of Elite Trees
      • Gisele Saraiva, Sebastião Ribeiro Xavier Júnior, Regina C. V. Martins-da-Silva, Ademir Roberto Ruschel , Fernanda Ilkiu-Borges : Floristic Composition of Riparian Vegetation of a Stream in the Northeast of Pará State-Brazil
      • Chris Nwani, Becker Sven, Robert Hanner, Okechukwu Okogwu: DNA Barcoding Discriminates Freshwater Fishes from Southeastern Nigeria and Provides River System Level Phylogeographic Resolution within some Species
      • Aida Cuni Sanchez: The Baobab Tree in Malawi: Abundance or Scarcity?
      • Lourdes Guadalupe Quiñones Ruiz, Jitka Perry, Fanny Luz Cuellar Bautista, Goldis Perry Davila, Rita Riva Ruiz, Daniela Hirsch-Soares: Native Chili Peppers Conservation using Agroforestry Multistrata Systems in Peruvian Amazon
      • Saka Jimoh, Emmanuel T. Ikyaagba, Adesoji A. Adeyemi, Abideen Alarape, Matthias Waltert: Preliminary Information on the Density and Distribution of Duikers in the Oban Sector of Cross River National Park, Nigeria
      • A. Cristina De La Vega-Leinert, Johanna Lein, Monika Weber: Reconciling Conservation and Local Sustainable Development: Case Studies from Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve, Veracruz, Mexico
      • Britta Deutsch, Till Stellmacher, Etti Winter, Ulrike Grote: Implementation and Potentials of Certification Mechanisms on Biodiversity Conservation Projects in Kigoma Region and Coast Region, Tanzania
      • Pavlos Georgiadis, Chalathon Choocharoen, Annabell Redegeld: People, Forests and Rural Development: Re-discovering the Neglected and Underutilised Ethnobotanical Heritage of Northern Thailand
      • Martina Padmanabhan: The Political Landscape of Agricultural Conversion and Conservation Institutional Alliances in Kerala, India
      • Grace Villamor, Quang Bao Le, Paul L. G. Vlek, Meine van Noordwijk: Modelling Social-ecological Systems to Understand Ecosystem Service Trade-offs
      • Thorsten Wiersberg, Daniel Callo-Concha: Impact Evaluation of the ICRAF Tree Domestication Program in the Peruvian Amazon: A System and Participatory-based Approach
      • Kerstin Zander: The Economic Value of Environmental Services on Aboriginal Held Lands in Australia
      • Alan Edmund Smith, Gordian Fanso: Forest Certification as Basic Requirement for Payments for Environmental Services
  • Soil fertiliy and nutrient cycling
    • Oral Presentations
      • Jóska Gerendás, Chris Donough, Thomas Oberthür: Function and Nutrient Status of Sulphur in Oil Palm in Indonesia
      • Soni Sisbudi Harsono, Philipp Grundmann, Anja Hansen, Idris Azni, Salleh Mam, Tinia Idaty Mohd Ghazi, Hang Lau Lek: Life Cycle Analysis of Biochar from Palm Oil empty Fruit Bunches
      • Bandhu Raj Baral, Gautam Shrestha: Fate of Particulate and Dissolved Organic Matter in Soil N Mineralisation
      • Sven Goenster, Martin Wiehle, Martina Predotova, Jens Gebauer, Abdalla Mohamed Ali, Andreas Buerkert: Gaseous Emissions from High and Low Input Homegardens of the Nuba Mountains, Central Sudan
      • Qicheng Bei, Frank Rasche, Georg Cadisch, Zubin Xie: Assessing the Sources of Biological Nitrogen Fixation in a Natural, Flooded Rice-field System using a Field ¹⁵N₂-labeling Technique
      • Rashmi Srivastava, Estelle Berset, Paul Maeder, Alok Adholeya, Padruot Fried, Anil K. Sharma: Effects of Mycorrhiza and Plant Growth Promoting Rhizo-bacteria Inoculants on Rice Crops in Northern India
    • Posters
      • Oksana Forkutsa, Christopher Martius, Gerhard Welp: Zero Tillage and Residue Level Impact on Carbon Dynamics in the Rice-Wheat Systems of the Lower Amu Darya Region, Uzbekistan
      • Maximilian Hofmeier, Yong Han, Ting Lan, Zucong Cai, Marco Roelcke, Rolf Nieder: Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiencies in Rice-Wheat Rotations in Southeastern China
      • Abdelkarim Awadelkarim, Mubarak Abdalla, Abdalla Gassm Alsayied: Time of Sowing Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) as Affected by Nitrogen Mineralisation from Farm Yard Manure in three Soil Types
      • Emanoel Gomes Moura, Paulo Henrique Marques Monroe, Marta Jordana Arruda Coelho, Alana Das Chagas Ferreira Aguiar: Physiological Efficiency and Combined Effects of Phosphorus and Nitrogen from a Natural Source on the Yield of Maize in Humid Tropical Soil
      • Methinee Pholinta, Mattiga Panomtaranichagul, Karl Stahr: Increasing Fertiliser Use Efficiency, Availability of Phosphorus and Crop Yield in Furrow Cultivation for Sustainable Agriculture on Sloping Land
      • Oliver Zemek, Astrid Oberson, Lalajaona Randriamanantsoa, Lilia Rabeharisoa, Eric Scopel, Jean-Marie Douzet, Jacqueline Rakotoarisoa, Emmanuel Frossard: Examining Nitrogen Dynamics in an Upland Rice-Stylosanthes guianensis Based Conservation Agriculture System Using ¹⁵N Stable Isotope Techniques
      • Sahar Babiker Abdalla, Jens Gebauer, Martina Predotova, Andreas Buerkert: Horizontal Nutrient Flows and Balances in Irrigated Urban Gardens of Khartoum, Sudan
      • Désiré Jean-Pascal Lompo, Emmanuel Compaoré, Martina Predotova, Papoada Michel Sedogo, Andreas Buerkert: Nutrient Balances and Gaseous Emissions of Nitrogen in Urban Vegetable Gardens of Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
      • Bhanudacha Kamolmanit, Frank Rasche, Wanwipa Kaewpradit, Georg Cadisch, Patma Vityakon: A Microcosm Experiment to Assess Microbial Process as Determined by Different Biochemically Organic Residues
      • Shimeles Damene Shiene, Paul L. G. Vlek, Lulseged Tamene: Performance of Farmland Terracing in Maintaining Soil Fertility in South Wello, Northern Highlands of Ethiopia
      • Munir Hoffmann, Ronald F. Kühne, Tualar Simarmata, Anthony Whitbread: Maintenance of Soil Quality in an Intensive Horticultural System in the Highlands of West Java
      • Jonathan Marroquín Castillo, Humberto González Rodríguez, Israel Cantú Silva, Mauricio Cotera-Correa, Roque G. Ramírez Lozano, Marco V. Gómez Meza: Litterfall and Nutrient Deposition in a Microphylous Shrubland Desert Community, Northeastern Mexico
      • Volker Häring, Holger Fischer, Stefan Köhler, Gerhard Gerold, Karl Stahr: Effect of Mass Movements and Climate on Natural Soil Fertility in Mountainous Ecosystems of Monsoonal Vietnam and Humid Tropical Indonesia
      • Alexandra Sandhage-Hofmann, Elmarie Kotzé, Christiaan C. Du Preez, Wulf Amelung: Soil Properties under the Influence of Different Rangeland Management in the Grassland Biome, South Africa
      • Erick Kibet Towett, Keith Shepherd, Georg Cadisch: Quantification of the Variability and Pattern in Total Element Composition of sub-Saharan African Soils
      • Tesfaye Feyisa Beyene, Klaus Katzensteiner: Assessment of Supply of Soil Nutrients in Different Land Use Types Using Plant Root Simulator Probes
      • Greta Jordan, Mariko Ingold, Herbert Dietz, Andreas Buerkert: Agronomic Effects of Biochar and Polyphenols as Compost Additives to Irrigated Raphanus sativus in Oman
      • Mariko Ingold, Anne Schiborra, Eva Schlecht, Andreas Buerkert: Influence of Biochar and Tannin Amendments to Goat Manure on Gaseous C and N Emissions
      • Ludger Herrmann, Hannatou Moussa Oumarou, Bettina I.G. Haussmann: Wood Ash Microdosing as Fertiliser Strategy for Subsistence Oriented and Resource Poor Sahelian Farmers?
      • Michael Yongha Boh, Simone Calone Ngongang Yonkio, Torsten Müller, Joachim Sauerborn: Effect of Urine and Ammonium Nitrate Rate on Maize (Zea mays L.) Grown on Saline and Non-saline Soils
      • Ariany Colás Sánchez, Roldán Torres Gutiérrez, Bettina Eichler-Loebermann, Klever Ivan Granda Mora, Yenisey Gutiérrez Sánchez, Anne Willems, Jan Michiels, Jos Vanderleyden: Genetic Identification of Rhizobia Isolates: Behaviour on Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Genotypes
      • Getinet Desalegn, Erwin Binner, Andreas Lössl, Horst Vierheilig, Peter Liebhard, Peter Lechner: Influence of Quality Compost on Plant Growth and Mycorrhizal Colonisation in Corn
  • Forests and agroforestry
    • Oral Presentations
      • Julia Szulecka: Historical Paradigm Shifts in Tropical Forest Plantations
      • Ludvík Bortl, Bohdan Lojka, Vladimir Verner: Adoption and Socioeconomic Evaluation of Multistrata Agroforestry Systems in Peruvian Amazon
      • Thomas Oberthür, Chris Donough: Sustainable Intensification with Best Management Practices for Oil Palm in Marginal Environments of Southeast Asia
      • Tilman Schachtsiek, Olena Dubovyk, Asia Khamzina: Suitability of Tree Species for Afforestation of Marginalised and Abandoned Croplands in Uzbekistan
      • Haider Shapo, Hussein Adam: Microclimatic Changes in Different Alley-cropping Width and their Impact on Growth and Yield of Wheat in the Dry Zone of Central Sudan
      • Angelica Baldos, Marife D. Corre: Aboveground Net Primary Production Response to Chronic Nitrogen Addition in a Tropical Montane Forest
    • Posters
      • Nina Tiralla, Oleg Panferov, Alexander Knohl: Allometric Relationships of Frequently used Shade Tree Species in Cacao Agroforestry Systems in Sulawesi, Indonesia
      • Thi Chau Ha Dao, Ralph Mitlöhner: Structure and Regeneration of Degraded Forest in Tam Dao National Park, Vietnam
      • Minh Toai Pham, Ralph Mitlöhner: Natural Regeneration Patterns Beneath Canopy of Old-growth Tropical Moist Evergreen Forests in Vietnam
      • Asmamaw Alemu Abtew, Jürgen Pretzsch, Tarig Elsheikh Mahmoud, Yahia Omar Adam: Population Structure and Natural Regeneration of Boswellia papyrifera Hochst. in Dry Woodlands of Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan State, Sudan
      • Diana Yemilet Avila Flores, Marco Aurelio Gonzalez Tagle, Javier Jiménez Pérez, Oscar Alberto Aguirre Calderon, Eduardo Javier Treviño Garza: Assessment of Post-fire Forest Structural Diversity Using Neighbourhood Based Parameters in the Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico
      • Oscar Alberto Aguirre Calderon, Jose Javier Corral Rivas, Javier Jiménez Pérez, Benedicto Vargas Larreta, Eduardo Javier Treviño Garza: Characterising Spatial Structure of Natural Mixed Forests in Mexico
      • Ahmad Valipour, Hedayat Ghazanfari, Manouchehr Namiranian, Zahed Shakeri: Lack of Regeneration and Sustainability Crisis of Northern Zagros Forests of Iran
      • Duc Le, Jürgen Pretzsch: Forest Management Practices in Central Highlands of Vietnam: Case Studies in two State Forestry Companies
      • Chaw Chaw Sein, Ralph Mitlöhner: Acacia mangium and Eucalyptus urophylla in Northern Vietnam: Relationship between Silvicultural Activity and Quality of Stand
      • Joachim Milz, Johanna Jacobi, Fortunato Velasquez, Monika Schneider: Four-dimensional Agriculture: Successional Agroforestry for Ecological and Socio-economic Resilience Building
      • Lukas Huml, Bohdan Lojka: Multipurpose Tree Species used by Small Farmers in the Region Ucayali, Peruvian Amazon
      • Marion Karmann, Alan Edmund Smith: Assessing the Impact of Forest Management Certification - Options for Research
      • Marcelo Cunha, Daniela Hirsch-Soares, Roberto Porro, Elena Mejia: Does Organic Cocoa Certification Contribute to Socioeconomic Development and Environmental Conservation in Brazil and Peru?
      • Daniel Callo-Concha, Frank Ewert: Assessing Multifunctional Agroforestry Systems Applying the Resilience / Vulnerability and Adaptability (RVA) Approach
      • Eko Ruddy Cahyadi, Hermann Waibel: Do Smallholders Gain from Contract with an Oil Palm Company? Lessons Learned from Jambi, Indonesia
      • Dominik Fortenbacher: Economic Analysis of Agroforestry in the Visayas, Philippines under Consideration of Conservation of Natural Resources
      • Alvaro Cañadas, Alexis Roca Cedeño: Can the Reforestation Projects Stop the Extraction of Timber from the Protected Forest Chongón-Colonche?
      • Camille Brigitte Marthe Déhu, Lavinia Davis Rangel Pessanha, Ida Theilade: Agroforestry Experiences in the semi-Arid Zone of Brazil: Quality of Life, Food Security and Nature Conservation
  • Water and irrigation
    • Invited Paper
      • Ravinder Paul Singh Malik: Water Resources for the Production Systems on the Margin
    • Oral Presentations
      • Levi Johnson, Robin Bourgeois, José Maria Díaz-Puentes: Evaluation of Small-scale Irrigation and Wua Interventions in Eastern Madagascar: A Comparison of Qualitative Strategies
      • Tinoush Jamali Jaghdani, Bernhard Brümmer: Participation of Tree-crop Farmers in Spot Water Markets in semi-Arid Areas: An Example from Iran
      • Andrea Dührkoop, Oliver Hensel: Innovative Water Saving Irrigation Technology by Auto-regulative Subsurface Pipes
      • Sabine Stürz, Abdoulaye Sow, Folkard Asch: Impact of Climatic Conditions on Rice Yield under Water-saving Irrigation in the Sahel
      • Andrea Bues: Agricultural Foreign Direct Investment and Water Rights of Marginalised Smallholders - An Institutional Analysis from Ethiopia
    • Posters
      • Shamaila Zia, Yuxuan Wang, Wolfram Spreer, Wenyong Du, Xiongkui He, Joachim Müller: Understanding the Farmer's Behaviour towards Water Saving Irrigation Technologies
      • Richard Festo, Jans Bobert, Henry Mahoo, Japhet Kashaigili: Simulation of Water Productivity for Maize under Drip Irrigation
      • Fazlullah Akhtar, Bernhard Tischbein, Usman Khalid Awan: Using the Aquacrop Model to Optimise Deficit Irrigation Scheduling of Cotton in Uzbekistan
      • Pia Rothe, Anne Biewald, Susanne Rolinski, Hermann Lotze-Campen: Domestic Blue and Green Virtual Water Transfers in China: Is Water Scarcity Really a Driver?
      • MST. Nadira Sultana, Mohammad Mohi Uddin, Oghaiki Asaah Ndambi, Torsten Hemme: Analysis of Water Footprint in Bangladesh Dairy Farms: An Implication of Food Security
      • Maksud Bekchanov, Anik Bhaduri: Water Markets for Efficient Water Allocation in Central Asia
      • Karina Schumacher, Thomas Gut, Marc Lamers, Thilo Streck: Groundwater Pollution by Pesticides in a Watershed in Northern Vietnam
      • Dalia Mubarak, Rudolf Schulz, Dieter Martens, Mehdi Zarei, Torsten Müller: Removal of Metalaxyl-m by Organically Modified Sediment from Aqueous Solution
      • Theresa Zimmermann, Priyanie Amerasinghe, Pay Drechsel: Farmer Perceptions on Economic Costs of Wastewater Irrigation in Hyderabad, India
      • Cho Cho San: Off-site Cost and Benefit of Sedimentation in the Eastern Side of Inle Lake Watershed, Myanmar
      • Philipp Dalkmann, Jan Siemens, Elisha Willaschek, Christina Siebe, Wulf Amelung: Accumulation and Binding of Human Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater Irrigated Fields in the Mezquital Valley, Mexico
      • Hoa Nguyen Thai, Hong Le Thi Anh, Joachim Clemens: Monitoring of Endocrine Disruptors in Surface Water of Agro-ecosystems in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
      • Melanie Bläsing, Ingrid Rosendahl, Zita Sebesvari, Fabrice Renaud, Wulf Amelung: Pesticide Residues in Soils and Sediments in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
      • Aymar Bossa, Bernd Diekkrüger: Modelling the Effects of Changing Crop Patterns and Management Practices on N and P Loads to Surface and Ground-water in a Semi-humid Catchment (West Africa)
      • Wiebke Niether, Manja-Christina Reuter, Monika Schneider, Renate Seidel, Joachim Milz, Oliver Hensel: Water Use Characteristics of Cocoa and two Shade Tree Species in Different Production Systems
  
  
• Production systems on the margin
  • Crop production systems
    • Oral Presentations
      • Suchit Prasad Shrestha, Folkard Asch, Julie Dusserre, Alain Ramanantsoanirina: Yield Stability and Genotype x Environment Interactions of Upland Rice in Altitudinal Gradient in Madagascar
      • Dieudonné Katunga Musale, Thomas Ngabo, Samy Bacigale-Bashizi, Fabrice Muhimuzi-Lwaboshi, Brigitte L. Maass: Testing Agro-ecological Adaptation and Participatory Acceptability of ten Herbaceous Legumes in South Kivu, DR Congo
      • David Kipkemoi Changwony, Christian Dold, Titus Lanyasunya, Dominika Schneider, Mathias Becker: Effect of Land Use Duration of the Agricultural Production of Lake Naivasha Wetland, Kenya
      • Carina Lindener, Huong Thi Thu Le, Fabrice Renaud: Historical Development of Farming Systems Facing Increasing Saline Intrusion in Ben Tre Province, Mekong Delta
      • Raoul Herrmann, Ulrike Grote, Michael Brüntrup: Determinants of Farmers' Participation in Outgrower Schemes in the Biofuels Sector of Malawi
      • Katrin Pütz, Araya Asfaw, Bilhat Leta, Joachim Müller: Biogas as Business -- Biogas Transport Technology and Economic Concept for Developing Countries
    • Posters
      • Sophia Baumert: Carbon Sequestration through Jatropha curcas Afforestation: Preliminary Results from Burkina Faso
      • Dirk Röttgers, Anja Faße, Ulrike Grote: Sub-Saharan Africa's Role in International Biofuel Trade
      • Jens Lansche, Steffen Schock, Joachim Müller: Life Cycle Assessment on the Substitution of Dung Combustion by Biogas Systems in Ethiopia
      • Jia Li, Bettina Bluemling, Thomas Herzfeld: Biofuel from Forestry: Promising or Disappointing? The Case of Jatropha in China
      • Carolin Dittberner, Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt, Philip Beckschäfer, Christoph Kleinn: Rural Energy Patterns and Fuelwood Demand of Mengsong Administrative Village, Xishuangbanna Prefecture, Yunnan, China
      • Isabel Barfuss, Stanley Gwavuya, Steffen Abele, Joachim Müller: Improving Household Energy Systems in Rural Ethiopia: A Comparative Study of Traditional Energy Sources and Biogas
      • Iria Soto, Bart Muys, Erik Mathijs: Biodiesel Production from Jatropha curcas L. in Mexico: From Governmental Promotion to Peasant Adoption
      • Adam Vankat, Vladimir Krepl: Energy Potential of Excrement Biomass of Selected Domestic Animal Species
      • Frank von Glasenapp, Bernard Philibert Agbo, Stefan Kachelriess-Matthess, Peter Keller: Economic Assessments of Cashew Production for the Promoting of the Competitiveness of African Cashew Farmers
      • Moritz Reckling, Angelinus Cornelius Franke, Bernard Vanlauwe, Speciose Kantengwa, Ken Giller: Causes of Variability in Climbing Bean Farming Systems Across Different Farm Types in Northern Rwanda
      • Marc Corbeels, Johannes Schuler, Hycenth Tim Ndah, Sandra Uthes, Peter Zander, Tom Apina, Saidou Koala, Bernard Triomphe, Mohammed El Mourid, Karim Traoré, Isaiah Nyagumbo, Rachid Mrabet, Eric Penot, Helena Gomez-Macpherson, Jan de Graaf, Pablo Tittonel: CA2Africa: Conservation Agriculture in Africa: Analysing and Foreseeing its Impact - Comprehending its Adoption
      • Nguyen Tien Long, Michael Böhme: Sustainability Assessment of Peri-urban Vegetable Cultivation Systems in the Red River Delta, Vietnam
      • Thanh Nguyen Thi, Carsten Marohn, Irene Chukwumah, Lam Thanh Nguyen, Georg Cadisch: Assessing Impacts of Farmers' Land Use Change Decisions on Long Term Soil Fertility in North West Vietnam Using a Reverse Modelling Approach
      • Charlotte Dreiseidler, Jürgen Burkhardt, Oscar Bustamante, Pablo Siles, Charles Staver, Erwid Perez Valdivia: The Response of Musa Cultivar Root Systems to a Tree Shade Gradient
      • Frank Mussgnug, Rowena Castillo, Mamadou K. Ndiaye, Roland Buresh, Stephan M. Haefele: Nutrient Manager for Rice (NMRice): The Development of an ICT-based Tool for Site-specific Nutrient Management of Lowland Rice in West Africa
      • Nadine Worou, Thomas Gaiser, Heiner Goldbach: Lowland Rice Growth and Productivity as Related to Landscape Position, Bunding and Fertiliser Application
      • Eastonce Gwata, Godwin Mchau, Fulufhelo Marubini: Preliminary Evaluation of Improved Exotic Pigeonpea Cultivars in Limpopo (South Africa)
      • Bolonge Pierre Epampuka, Kamondo Bertin S, Stephan Winter: Introduction and Adoption of Improved Cassava Varieties by Smallholder Farmers on the Island Idjwi in the Democratic Republic of Congo
      • Linda Yuya Gorim, Folkard Asch, Tom Hattig, Jürgen Bestajovsky: The Effects of Coatings and/or Rhizobia on the Growth of Alfalfa (Medicago sativa Verko.)
      • Fatemeh Dehghani, Majid Aghaalikhani, Jahanfar Daneshian, Emad Rahmati: Osmopriming Improved Germination Parameters of Water Deficit Stress derived Soybean Seeds under Low Temperature Condition
      • Osman Erekul, Ines Braesemann, Klaus-Peter Goetz, Helmut Herzog: Yield Performance and Quality of Mediterranean and Mid-european Wheat Cultivars Grown under Different Ecological Field Conditions
      • Abukari Ziblim Imoro, Joseph Kudadam Korese, Damian Tom-Dery, Hypolite Bayor: Assessing the Effects of Storage of Shea Seeds on Germination and Seedling Growth in the Northern Region of Ghana
      • Andréia Kerber, Sevald Andréia , Francieli Brusco, Francieli Mendes, Nédio Verdi, Pedro Angelo Dariva, Rafael Lucion, Marcos Alberto Lana, Adriano Canci, Alceu Cericato, Frank Eulenstein: Agronomic Characteristics and Performance of Local Common Bean Landraces (Phaseolus vulgaris) from Southern Brazil
      • Tualar Simarmata, Benny Joy, Tien Turmuktini: Water Saving and Organic Fertilisers Based Technology to Remediate the Health of Paddy Soils and to Increase Rice Productivity in Indonesia
  • Animal production systems
    • Oral Presentations
      • Roel Bosma, Eleonor Tendencia, Stuart Bunting: From Marginal to Resilient Aquaculture Based Livelihoods in Coastal Mangrove Zones
      • Biniam Samuel Fitwi, Carsten Schulz: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Different Fish Production Systems
      • Marianna Siegmund-Schultze, Barbara Rischkowsky, Ilkhom Yuldashev, Bahtiyar Abdalniyazov, John Lamers: The Emerging Small-scale Dairy Cattle Farming Sector in the Khorezm Province of Uzbekistan
      • Kebede Amenu, André Markemann, Regina Rößler, Marianna Siegmund-Schultze, Anne Valle Zárate: Perceived Feed and Water Constraints for Livestock Production in Lume and Siraro Districts, Ethiopia
      • Anne Schiborra, Simon Riedel, Muhammad Baihaqi, Eva Schlecht: Improved Feeding Strategy Increases the Efficiency of Indigenous Pig Production in Southwest China
      • Theda Matthiesen, Frida Nyamete, John M. Msuya, Brigitte L. Maass: Importance of Guinea Pig Husbandry for the Livelihood of Rural People in Tanzania: A Case Study in Iringa Region
    • Posters
      • Huyen Le Thi Thanh, Thi Tuyet Van Dinh, Pera Herold, Anne Valle Zárate: Identification of a Suitable Farm Type for the Development of Smallholder Beef Production in a Mountainous Province of Northern Vietnam
      • Muhammad Asif Raza, Muhammad Younas, Eva Schlecht: Prevalence of Helminth Infestation in Pastoral Sheep and Goat Flocks in the Cholistan Desert of Pakistan
      • Hamid Reza Ansari-Renani, Barbara Rischkowsky, Joaquin Mueller: Cashmere of Nomadic Raeini Goat: Assessment of Quality, Comparative Advantage, Development Options for Industry
      • Ahmed Idris, Amir Salih, Faisal El-Hag, Claudia Kijora: The Effect of Feed Supplementation on the Productive and Reproductive Performance of Desert Ewes in Rangeland of Kordofan, Sudan
      • Muhammad Tariq, Eva Schlecht: Milking Management and Use of Oxytocin in Urban and Peri-urban Dairy Herds of Faisalabad, Pakistan
      • B.M. Babigumira, Esau Galukande, Helen Nakimbugwe, W. Kifudde, Daniel N.K Semambo: Comparison between Mubende and Boer x Mubende Crosses for Biometric Measurements and Weight-for-Age in Uganda
      • Thomas D.O. Ogola, Isaac Sanga Kosgey: Dairy Goats in Rural Development: Determinants of Viability and Sustainability of a Breeding Programme
      • Remy Niyireba, Cyprian Ebong, Gaspard Uwimana, Jane Wamatu, John Mupangwa: Incorporation of Mucuna pruriens as a Protein Supplement in the Diets of Lactating Dairy Cows
      • Dennis Kinambuga, Benjamin Mutai, Owuor George, A. M Kalio, Emmanuel Kinuthia: Performance of Smallholder Dairy Farming in Nakuru County, Kenya
      • Aline dos Santos Neutzling, Alex da Rosa Neutzling, Meike Wollni, Eva Schlecht: Milk Production by Small-scale Farmers in the South of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
      • Lok Nath Paudel, Isory Panday, Shankar Neupane, Udo ter Meulen, Matthias Gauly: Conservation, Promotion and Utilisation of Indigenous Lulu Cattle (Bos taurus) for the Sustainable Development on the Marginalised Area of High Altitude of Nepal
      • Endeshaw Assefa, Girma Abebe, Azage Tegegne: Goat Production System and Opportunities for Market Orientation in Southern Ethiopia
      • Pavel Burian, Martin Hejral, Vladimir Krepl: Dairy Cooperatives Development in Eastern Afghanistan - Minimal Technological Equipment for Sustainable Functionality of Milk Collection Centers
      • Newman Kusina, H. Saina, Jestina Kusina, Sebastien le Bel: Guinea Fowl Rearing: A Tool for Poverty Alleviation in Zimbabwe
      • Christoph Gehring, Raimundo Reginaldo Soares Santos, Flávio Henrique Reis Moraes: Integrated Rice-Fish Culture for Poverty Reduction in Riverine Smallholder Agriculture of the Eastern Amazonian Periphery
      • Brojo Gopal Paul, Christian Reinhard Vogl: Comparison of Shrimp Farming Systems: Evidence from Bangladesh
      • Ngo Thi Kim Cuc: An Assessment of Genetic Potential of Vietnamese Local Pig Breeds for Sustainable Use of Pig Genetic Resources in Vietnam
      • Mohammed Yaro, Phyllis Addo, Reynolds-Barnes Anna: Documenting Normal Microflora in Thrynomyns swinderanus: Towards Accelerated Domestication of Emerging Peri-Urban Micro-Livestock
      • Jackson Mbuthia, Thomas Rewe, A.K. Kahi: Evaluation of Pig Management and Breeding under Different Smallholder Production Systems
      • Patricia I. Sarria, Angelo Rebolledo, Benjamín Salázar, Siriwan Martens: Growth of Pigs Fed with Brachiaria Hybrid Mulato II x Cratylia argentea Meal as Protein Supplement
      • Badar A. Al-Qamashoui, Osman Mahgoub, Isam Kadim, Eva Schlecht: Characterisation of Performance Traits and Management Practices of Omani Local Chickens
      • Adam Drosa, Khitma Elmalik, Amir Salih, Omer Abdelhadi: Some Aspects of Camel Raising in the Butana Area of the Sudan
  • Animal nutrition
    • Oral Presentations
      • Nouhoun Zampaligré, Eva Schlecht: The Seasonal Contribution of Trees and Shrubs to Cattle, Sheep and Goat for Different Climatic Zones in Burkina Faso, West Africa
      • Rein van der Hoek, Martin Mena, Carlos Rodriguez, Marlene Posas, Alexander Benavidez, Elmer Moreno, Conrado Burgos, Michael Peters: Tropical Forages to Enhance Productivity of Monogastric Animals with Low-income Farmers in Nicaragua and Honduras
      • Azage Tegegne, Zewdu Ayele, Dirk Hoekstra: Farmers Innovations in Livestock Feeding and Management in Semi-arid Areas of Ethiopia
      • Yingzhi Gao, Hongbin Wei, Z.J. Li, Marcus Giese: Carbohydrates - A Trait to Indicate Sustainable Grazing Practice in Semi-arid Grasslands?
      • Olufemi Alabi, Olusoji David Adejumo, F.A. Aderemi, Adebayo Abraham Adewumi, Abimbola Oluseun Ladokun: Blood Profile of Brolier Finishers Fed Graded Levels of Indomie Noodle Waste Meal in Humid Tropics
      • Yorcelis Cruz, Claudia Kijora, Walter Vásquez Torres, Carsten Schulz: Protein and Energy Digestibility of Selected Aquatic Macrophytes Treated by Sun Drying and Lactic-acid Fermentation for the Amazonian Fish Piaractus brachypomus (Cuvier, 1818)
    • Posters
      • Marika Schweigmann, Martin Gierus: Precipitation Ability of different Tannin Extracts for BSA at Variable pH Values in vitro
      • Olubukola Isah: In vitro Gas Production of some Tropical Grasses Using Inocula from Cattle, Sheep and Goats
      • Ronaldo C. Lucas, Yosra A. Soltan, Amr Salah Morsy, Jacinta D. F. Gomes, Maria E.Q. Vieira, Helder Louvandini, Adibe L. Abdalla: Rumen Degradation Characteristics and Tannin Biological Effects of Brazilian Tanniniferous Tropical Plants Based on in vitro Gas Production Technique
      • Estanislao Díaz Falú, Miguel Brizuela, Diego Bendersky, Marcus Giese: Factors Affecting the Seasonal Pattern of Grazing Distribution in a Mixed Grazing System
      • Olusola Olorunnisomo: Intake and Digestibility of Elephant Grass Ensiled with Cassava Peels by Red Sokoto Goats
      • Murtada Elimam, Abdelnasir Fadelelseed, Amir Mukhtar, Ahmed Idris: Rumen Degradability and Kinetic Properties of Deep Stack Broiler Litter
      • Muhi El-Dine Hilali, Luis Lñiguez, Barbara Rischkowsky, Helmut Mayer, Matthias Schreiner: Effect of Supplementation with Agro-industrial By-products on Mineral Content in Awassi Sheep Milk
      • Lotte Klapwijk, Charles Bucagu, Mark T. van Wijk: Availability of Animal Feed Resources at Farm and Village Scale in Umurera, Rwanda
      • Abayomi Akinfemi, Margaret Kudirat Ladipo: Effect of Fungal Treated Maize Cob on the Performance of West African Dwarf Rams
      • Julieta Torres, Carlos A. Montoya, Luz Stella Muñoz, Siriwan Martens, Michael Peters: Heat Treatment of Tropical Multipurpose Legume Grains Affects in vitro Digestion and Fermentation in Pigs
      • Nelson José Vivas Quila, Victor Andres Burbano, Jhon Fredy Gutierrez, Siriwan Martens, Luz Stella Muñoz: In vivo Digestibility of Vigna unguiculata Grain Meal in Broilers
      • J. Oluwasola Agbede, Olusola Matthew Bankole, Muyiwa Adegbenro: Effect of Microbial 6-phytase on Amino Acid-digestibility of Caecectomised Laying Hens fed Low Lysine-based Diet
      • Olusola Ladokun, F.A. Aderemi, Olumide Tewe: Sweet Potato (Ipomea batata) Meal and its Utilisation by Pullet Chicks: Effect on Performance and Serum Chemistry
      • Olusola Ladokun, F.A. Aderemi: Evaluating Replacement of Maize and Wheat Bran with Sweet Potato Tubers and Vines on Performance, Digestibility and Blood Chemistry of Pullet Chicks
      • Johannes Pucher, Richard Mayrhofer, Mansour El-Matbouli, Ulfert Focken: Interaction of Natural Food and Supplemental Feeding for Common Carp in Semi-intensively Managed Ponds in the Marginal Uplands of Son La Province, Northern Vietnam
      • Ademola Aderolu, Abidemi Adekoya, Oluwaseun Aarode: Utilisation of Graded Levels of Ripe and Unripe Banana in the Diet of African Catfish
      • Johnny Onyema Ogunji, Kevin Stiller, Carsten Schulz: Assessing Specific Dynamic Action in Cyprinus carpio Fed Diets of Fishmeal, Magmeal and Rapeseed Meal
      • Edvania Pontes, Elton Lima Santos, Ronaldo C. Lucas, Yosra A. Soltan, Adibe L. Abdalla: Growth Performance of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) Fed on Different Combinations of Protein Sources
      • Emmanuel Oluropo Akinfala, Opes Matanmi: Sustainable Utilisation of Cassava Plant for Feeding Monogastric Animals
      • Adebisi Agboola, Temitope Lawal, Eustace Ayemere Iyayi: Apparent Ileal Digestibility of Crude Protein and Amino Acids in Wheat Offal Diets for Broilers
  • Product quality and processing
    • Oral Presentations
      • Kristina Rusarova, Jana Mazancova, Bohumil Havrland: Assesment and Perspectives of Mechanical-power Technology Implementation in Agriculture in Angola
      • Franz Román, Vitus Strahl-Schäfer, Oliver Hensel: Improving Air Distribution and Drying Uniformity in a Batch Dryer for Agricultural Products
      • Marcus Nagle, Birgit Jankowsky, Karla Peña Pineda, Llermé Rios, Matthias Jäger, Donatus Nohr, Joachim Müller: Evaluation of Heat-sensitive Micronutrients in Fresh, Sun-dried and Solar"=dried Capsicum Varieties Grown in Peru
      • Hamadoun Amadou, Christian Hülsebusch, Abou Berthé, Eva Schlecht: Safety of Horticultural and Livestock Products Originating from Urban and Peri-urban Enterprises in two West African Cities
      • Carmen Dienst, Willington Ortiz, Julia C. Pfaff: Assessing the Appropriability of Food Processing Technologies Based on Renewable Energies Applying a Need-oriented Methodology
      • Moses Sila Matui, Paul Ingenbleek, Anita Linnemann, Hans van Trijp, Abass Adebayo: Between Isomorphism and Entrepreneurship: The Impact of Standardisation on Product Quality, Market Access and Livelihoods in Kenyan Banana Production
    • Posters
      • Elfadil Bashir, Bettina Hausmann, Abdelbagi Ali, Peter Muth, Heiko Parzies: Genetic Analysis and Biofortification of Pearl Millet for Nutritional Values
      • Beatrice Grieb, Jens Gebauer, Peter Njoroge Mwangi: Warburgia ugandensis - Bioassay of Different Plant Parts Concerning the Antimicrobial Activity
      • Norman Warthmann, Hao Chen, Stephan Ossowski, Philippe Hervé, Jörg Hagmann, Maricris Zaidem, Il-Ryong Choi, Detlef Weigel: Finding the Genes and Proving Causality: New Forward and Reverse Genetic Tools and their Application in Rice
      • Suchada Vearasilp, Kultida Chaisathidvanich, Sa-nguansak Thanapornpoonpong, Dieter von Hörsten, Wolfgang Lücke: Aging Milled Rice by Radio Frequency Heat Treatment
      • Omer Abdelhadi, Salih Babiker, J.F. Hocquette, Bernard Faye, Claudia Kijora: Effect of Ageing on Chemical Composition and Quality of Desert Camel Meat (Camelus dromedarius)
      • Ensieh Hajazimi, Markus Schröder, Walter Vetter: Variation of Phytanic Acid in Transition from Conventional to Organic Milk Production
      • Stepán Marek, Kucerová Iva, Jan Banout: Use of Different Pretreatments During Drying of Eland (Taurotragus oryx) Meat and its Effect on Organoleptic Properties
      • Rebato Muhidin Seid, Oliver Hensel: The Influence of Pre-treatments on Drying Kinetics of Chilli Pepper
      • Condro Wibowo, Rumpoko Wicaksono, Sumirat Waluyo: Minimal Processing Application to Extend Shelf-life and Preserve Quality of Fresh-cut Pineapples
      • Ignasius Radix A.P. Jati, Vellingiri Vadivel, Hans Konrad Biesalski: Total Phenolic Content and Antioxidant Potential of Traditionally Processed Mucuna monosperma Seeds: An Indian Under-utilised Legume Grain
      • Karsten Schroeder, Maria Laila A. Miclat, Christian Lückstädt: The Use of a Non-corrosive Acidified Preservative for Moist Corn Storage under Philippine Conditions
  
  
• Systems under stress
  • Land use and management
    • Oral Presentations
      • Birgit Müller, Ingo Breuer, David Kreuer, Mohamed Mahdi, Karin Frank: New Institutions and Technologies to Cope with Risk in Pastoral Systems - Pitfalls and Chances
      • Steven R. Woods, Raed Al Tabini, Hani Saoub, Timothy Finan: Marginal Dryland Agriculture in Jordan: Forage Banking for Pastoralists?
      • Jan Ruppert, Anja Linstädter: Aboveground Net Primary Production and Rain-use Efficiency in Drylands - Results and Insights from a Meta-analytical Perspective
      • Sunny Winujiwati Hotmarisi Reetz, Bernhard Brümmer, Stefan Schwarze: Poverty and Tropical Deforestation in Forest Margin Areas: Evidence from Central Sulawesi Indonesia
      • Masarra Bashir: Applying Change Vector Analysis Method to Detect Vegetation Regeneration and Deforestation in Southern Darfur, Sudan
      • Maria Salonen, Tuuli Toivonen, Eduardo Maeda: Quantitative Accessibility Models in Evaluating Resource Use Patterns: Examples from the Peruvian Amazonia
    • Posters
      • Nguyen Tien Long, Michael Böhme: Building Geoprocessing Models for Land Suitability Assessment for ``Thanh Tra'' Pomelo in Central-Vietnam
      • Christian Brandt, Frank Rasche, Thomas Hilger, N.T. Lam, Tran Duc Vien, Georg Cadisch: Nuclear Techniques to Investigate Carbon Source/Sink Dynamics between Areas of Land Degradation and Deposition Areas in Local Tropical Watersheds
      • Magdalena Zakalek, Claudia Raedig, Dac Thai Hoang Ho, Udo Nehren: Multi-criteria Assessment of Landscape Vulnerability and Land Use Potentials in Central Vietnam
      • Petra Erbe, Ulrich Schuler, Karl Stahr, Ludger Herrmann: Rapid Soil Resource Survey Using Radiometric Signatures
      • Olena Dubovyk, Asia Khamzina, Christopher Conrad, Gunter Menz: Mapping Cropland Marginalisation in the Downstream of the Amu Darya River, Uzbekistan
      • Shabnam Rathore, Karl Stahr: Assessment of Biomass Production Potential on Salt-affected Land. A Soil and Terrain Database Case Study (SOTER), Badin District, South of Pakistan
      • Rubén Darío González, Ditmar Bernardo Kurtz, Maria Fabiana Navarro Rau: Evaluating NDVI as a Tool to Monitor Grasslands' Encroachment in Corrientes, Argentina
      • Hycenth Tim Ndah, Johannes Schuler, Sandra Uthes, Peter Zander, Bernard Triomphe, Tom Apina, Marc Corbeels: A Qualitative Expert Assessment Tool (QAToCA) for Assessing the Adoption of Conservation Agriculture in Africa
      • Johannes Schlesinger: Agriculture and the Rural-Urban Continuum - GIS-based Analysis of Urban and Periurban Agriculture in Moshi, Tanzania
      • Marie-Luise Rau, Tom Kuhlman, Gerdien Meijerink: Exploring the Influence of Socio-economic Aspects on Realising Agricultural Production Potential in sub-Saharan Africa (by using Maps)
      • Majdaldin Rahamtallah Abualgasim Mohammed, Elmar Csaplovics, Khalid Biro: Mapping and Monitoring Land-cover/Land-use Change in the Gash Agricultural Scheme (Eastern Sudan) Using Remote Sensing
      • Utia Suarma, Johann Stötter: Land Use Change and Hydrological Response in Code Watershed, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
      • Magdalena Ohm, Philipp Schönbach, H.W. Wan, Martin Gierus, Friedhelm Taube: Grazing Patterns in Relation to Grazing Intensity and Management System
      • Django Hegglin, Idupulapati Rao, Bertha Ramirez, Jaime Velasquez, Emmanuel Frossard, Astrid Oberson: Does Phosphorus Deficiency Aggravate Pasture Degradation in the Forest Margins?
      • Babatunde Adeniyi Osunmadewa, Susan Enokela: Remote Sensing and GIS for Assessing Land Use Land Cover Change: A Case Study of Jos and Environs, Plateau State Nigeria
      • Ayana Angassa, Gufu Oba, Adugna Tolera, Anja Linstädter: Effects of Bush Clearing, Prescribed Fire, and Grazing on Herbaceous Vegetation in Savannas of Southern Ethiopia
      • Roelof Oomen, Anja Linstädter, Jan Ruppert, Katharina Brüser, Jürgen Schellberg, Frank Ewert: Resilience of South African Grasslands and Savannahs to Degradation
      • Rodrigue V. Cao Diogo, William Nelson, Eu Sun Han, Daniel Rukazambuga, Andreas Buerkert: Degraded Land Rehabilitation of Coltan Mining Sites in Western Rwanda with Local Organic Materials
      • Yann le Polain de Waroux, Eric Lambin: Developing Away from the Land: Non-farm Economy and Social-ecological Resilience in Southern Morocco
      • Thomas Gaiser, Michael Judex, Attanda Mouinou Igue, Claudia Hiepe: Impact of Reduced Fallow Availability on Crop Yields in Low Input Cropping Systems in West Africa
      • Boaz S Waswa, Paul L. G. Vlek, Lulseged Tamene, Peter Okoth: Lost Potential: Impact of Land Use Change on Land Productivity in Western Kenya
      • Abdelnasir Ibrahim Ali Hano, Elmar Csaplovics: Spatiotemporal Dimensions of Vegetation Dynamic and its Relationship to Human Activities in the semi-Arid Zone of White Nile State, Sudan
  • Climate change
    • Oral Presentations
      • Benjamin Stuch, Rüdiger Schaldach, Jan Schüngel: Climate Dynamics and Agricultural Development
      • Sally Brooks, Michael Loevinsohn: Shaping Agricultural Innovation Systems Responsive to Food Insecurity and Climate Change
      • Edmund Asare, Olavi Luukkanen, Markku Kanninen: Resilience and Vulnerability in the Face of Potential Climate Change: The Case of Sudan
      • Johannes Dietz, Eike Luedeling, Jans Bobert, Matthias Büchner: Beyond Climate Change Mitigation: Can Trees Buffer Moderate Temperature Increases on Croplands?
    • Posters
      • Julie Gwen Zähringer, Hanspeter Liniger, Bettina Wolfgramm: Sustainable Land Management and Resilience to Climate Change in Tajikistan
      • Roland Kuete Tagnigue, Keita Moussa, Christian Hülsebusch, Brigitte Kaufmann: Identification of Agro-pastoralist Adaptation Strategies to Climate Variability: A Case Study in Mopti-Mali
      • Sarah Ayeri Ogalleh, Christian Reinhard Vogl, Michael Hauser: Climate Change and Uncertainty in Local Agriculture in Kenya: Do Farmers Have Options?
      • Manfred Denich, Paul L. G. Vlek: WASCAL - The West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use
      • Sisay Demeku Derib, Bernd Diekkrüger: Comparison of Spatial Interpolation Methods for Filling Daily Rainfall Missing Data, Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia
      • Alisher Mirzabaev, Daniel Tsegai: Climate Change-related Vulnerabilities and Adaptive Capacities of Populations in Marginal Areas of Central Asia
      • Marcos Alberto Lana, Frank Eulenstein, Edgardo Guevara, Santiago Meira, Armin B. Werner, Sandro Luis Schlindwein, Marion Tauschke, Ana Carolina Feitosa de Vasconcelos, Stefan Sieber: Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Maize Yield and Planting Dates in Southern Brazil
      • Kefyalew Sahle Kibret, Carsten Marohn, Georg Cadisch: Analysing Land Use History in the Northern Rift Valley Lake Basins of Ethiopia to Identify and Assess Local Coping Strategies to Maintain Food Security under Imminent Climate Change
      • Severin Polreich, Khamaldin Daud Mutabazi, Stefan Sieber: Assessing Best Agricultural Practices to Improve Future Climate Change Adaptation of Agro-landscapes in Tanzania
      • Jonathan Mockshell, Alwin Keil: Climate Change Impacts, Coping Strategies, and Adaptation Practices in East Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Ethiopia and Kenya
      • Karina Hennig, Gerhard Helle, Ingo Heinrich, Burkhard Neuwirth, Oka Karyanto:
        Climate Signals in Multiple Tree-ring Proxies (ring width, $\delta$¹³C and $\delta$¹⁸O) from Tropical Trees: An Example on Tectona grandis from Indonesia
      • Bishal Ghimire, Anju Upadhyaya: Changing Life with Climate: Adaptation through Agro-biodiversity Management - A Case from Nepal
      • Stefan Sieber, Jans Bobert, Ottfried Dietrich, Karen Tscherning, Severin Polreich, Meike Schaefer, Marco Natkhin, Aichi J. Kitalyi, Ewald Gervas Emil, Götz Uckert, Harry Hoffmann, Mathew Mpanda, Khamaldin Daud Mutabazi, Matthias Büchner, Siwa Msangi, Justus von Geibler, Katrin Bienge, Katharina Kennedy, Ulrike Grote, Anna Segerstedt, Anja Faße: Food Security in the Light of Climate Change and Bioenergy - Potentials to Stabilise Livelihoods for small-Scale Farming in Tanzania
      • Belay Kassie, Reimund Rötter, Huib Hengsdijk, Helena Kahiluoto: Quantifying Current and Future Climatic Risks to Cereal Production in Ethiopia as a Basis for Informing Adaptation
      • Henk van Rikxoort, Peter Läderach, Jos van Hal: The Potential of Latin American Coffee Production Systems to Mitigate Climate Change
      • Mohammad Abdel-Razek, Thomas Gaiser, Bernd Diekkrüger, Heiner Goldbach: Mitigation of Global Climate Change and Water Scarcity Impacts on Agriculture in Draâ Oases, South East Morocco: Methodological Framework
      • Florian Reimer, Jan Börner, Sven Wunder, Thais Megid Pinto, Luiza Lima: Monitoring Conservation and Livelihoods: Assessing REDD Effectiveness in the Juma Reserve, Amazonas, Brazil
      • Michael Hagemann, Paola A. Alvarado Price, Roy Donald Menjivar, Richard A. Sikora: Systemical Effects of Salicylic Acid, Methyl Jasmonate and a Mutualistic Fungal Endophyte on Homoptera Pests in the Phyllosphere of Summer Squash
      • Juvia Sueta, Marife D. Corre: N-oxides Fluxes, N₂O Sources, and Soil-profile N₂O Concentrations of Tropical Forests after Chronic N Addition
      • Bjoern Ole Sander, Constancio A. Asis, Reiner Wassmann: Mitigation of Methane Emissions from Rice Paddies: Alternate-wetting-and-drying in Farmers' Fields (Central Luzon, Philippines)
      • Toa Loaiza-Lange, Sabine Schlüter, Joyce Monteiro, Juan Antonio Reyes-Agüero, Juan Carlos Torrico: The Effectiveness of Global Carbon Mitigation Mechanisms, a Top-down Analysis. Reflexions from the Mata Atlantic Forest
      • Utkur Djanibekov, Asia Khamzina, Nodir Djanibekov, John Lamers: Economic Value of CDM Afforestation with Co-benefits in Irrigated Drylands of Central Asia
      • Tim Schloendorn, Marcella Veronesi, Astrid Zabel, Stefanie Engel: Permanence in REDD+ Projects: The Case of Eco-charcoal Policies
      • Tania Osejo Carrillo, Tobias Wünscher, Matthias Dieter: Effects of REDD Policy on Potential CO₂ Emission Reduction and Poverty Alleviation
      • Nagendra Bastakoti, Johannes Schollberg, Jeroen C.J. Groot: Farm Management Strategies to Enhance the Farm Performance in Changing Climate: A Case Study in the Mid-hills of Nepal
  • Crop abiotic stresses
    • Oral Presentations
      • Fatemeh Razzaghi, Seyed Hamid Ahmadi, Sven-Erik Jacobsen, Christian R. Jensen, Mathias N. Andersen: Yield and Water Productivity of Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.): A Potential Crop for Saline and Dry Marginal Lands
      • Sebastiaan De Smedt, Aida Cuni Sanchez, Geert Potters, Roeland Samson: Functional Responses of Baobab Seedlings to Drought Conditions: Differences between Western and Southeastern Africa
      • Duong Van Nha, Folkard Asch: Effects of Soluble Salts on Water Holding Capacity of Hydrophilic Polymers: A Case Study on Geohumus
      • Arjun Shrestha, Thomas Eichert, Monika Wimmer: Effect of Drought on the Mobility of Foliar-applied Boron in Plants
      • Katrin Schulze, Wanwisa Jantika, Wolfram Spreer, Somchai Ongprasert, Winai Wiriya-Alongkorn, Joachim Müller: Monitoring Water Stress Responses of Ipomoea aquatica (Forssk.) by Thermal Imaging in Different Soil Materials of Northern Thailand
      • Michael Frei, Yoshihisa Kohno, Stefan Tietze, Mario Jekle, Mohammed A. Hussein, Thomas Becker, Klaus Becker: Effect of Elevated Tropospheric Ozone on the Grain Quality of Rice
    • Posters
      • Ines Braesemann, Marco Grabe, Klaus-Peter Goetz, Helmut Herzog: Impact of Post-anthesis Water Deficit Stress on Water Use Efficiency and Yield in Mediterranean and mid-European Wheat Cultivars
      • Wibke Himmelsbach, Eduardo Javier Treviño Garza, Humberto González Rodríguez, Marco Aurelio Gonzalez Tagle: Acclimatation of Co-occurring Tree Species to Water Stress and their Role as Site-indicators in Mixed Pine"=oak Forests in Northeast Mexico
      • Sebastian Guretzki, Jutta Papenbrock: Development of a Drought Stress Scale by Different Parameters Using Lablab purpureus as Model System
      • Aria Dolatabadian, Seyed Ali Mohammad Modarres Sanavy, Faezeh Ghanati, Peter Gresshoff: Effects of Genistein on Nodulation, Nitrogen Fixation and Physiological Attributes of Soybean under Salt Stress
      • Johannes Wilhelm Gößling, Renate Müller, Hans-Werner Koyro, Sven-Erik Jacobsen: Adaptation of the First Filial Generation of Quinoa to Salinity after Parental NaCl Treatment
      • Sina Besharat, Mehdi Asadi Lour: Root Functional Architecture: Modelling the Root Zone Dynamics of Water Uptake by Trees
      • Michael Hagemann, Malte G. Roemer, Patrick Winterhagen, Martin Hegele, Jens Wünsche: Application of Plant Growth Regulators During Premature Fruit Drop of Mango for Identifying the Key Physiological Factor
      • Ghasem Tohidloo, Siamak Azizkhani, Jahanfar Daneshian, Aidin Hamidi, Majid Esfini Farahani: Effect of GA3 on Seed Germination of Soybean Cultivated under Water Stress and at Different Planting Dates
      • Erwid Perez Valdivia, Charles Staver, Pablo Siles, Oscar Bustamante, Jürgen Burkhardt: Biomass Partitioning and Gas Exchange Parameters in Different Musa Cultivars as Influenced by Natural Shade
      • Pablo Siles, Manuel Deras, Osmar Napoleón Matute, Oscar Bustamante, Charles Staver, Jürgen Burkhardt: Photosynthesis of three Dessert Banana Cultivars along an Altitudinal Gradient
      • Kai Schmidt, Christine Kreye: Effects of Salt Stress in Rice Assessed by SPAD and a Hyperspectral Sensor
      • Yanhua Wang, Fang Yang, Yingzhi Gao, Z.J. Li, Marcus Giese, Jie Zhang: Leymus chinensis Overcomes Salt Stress by Increasing Individual Ramet Growth
      • Awadalla Abdalla Abdelmula, Mona Osman Mohamed Jaber, Seifeldin Gasim: Differential Response of some Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Genotypes on Yield and Yield Components to Terminal Heat Stress under Sudan Conditions
  • Crop biotic stresses (DPG session)
    • Oral Presentations
      • Simone Kathrin Kriesemer, Katinka Weinberger, Srinivasan Ramasamy: At the Edge of Farmers' Health? Pesticide Use in Intensive Vegetable Production in Three Indian States
      • Berna van Wendel de Joode, Douglas Barraza, Clemens Ruepert, Ana María Mora, Leonel Córdoba, Catharina Wesseling, Donna Mergler, Christian H. Lindh: Indigenous Children's Chlorpyrifos Exposure in Banana and Plantain Hamlets in Talamanca, Costa Rica
      • Marc Cotter, Renzoandre De La Pena Lavander, Joachim Sauerborn: Predicting the Potential Future Geographic Distribution of Striga under Climate and Land Use Change
      • Muhammad Farhan Saeed, Christian Bruns, Andreas. F. Butz, Maria Renate Finckh: Effect of Different Biofumigant Brasicas and Mixed Cropping of Pea and Oat on their Growth and Yield
      • Judith Zimmermann, Beninweck Ndambi, Georg Cadisch, Frank Rasche: A Molecular Detection Tool for the Biocontrol Agent Fusarium oxysporum F.sp. strigae, a Putative Mycoherbicide for Striga hermonthica, in Soil
      • Muna Sultan, Dessie Salilew Wondim, Dawit Tesfaye, Karl Schellander, Abd El Naser El Ashry, Florian M. W. Grundler, Heinz-Wilhelm Dehne, Ulrike Steiner: Microarray Analysis of Gene Expression Induced by Bacillus subtilis in Tomato Leaves infected with Phytophthora infestans
    • Posters
      • Mohammed Bimerew Adem, Shaza Nabhan, Yacouba Sere, Kerstin Wydra: Fatty Acid and Multilocus Sequence Analyses Based Genotypic Characterisation of the Rice Pathogen Xanthomonas Oryzae Pv. Oryzae from West Africa
      • Pamella Akoth Ogada, Hans-Michael Poehling, Edgar Maiss: The Principle of Vector Competence of Western Flower Thrips (Frankliniella occidentali) in the Transmission of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus
      • Shree Ram Pariyar, Amer A Dababat, Julie M. Nicol, Richard A. Sikora, Alexander Schouten: Effect of Fungicide Seed Treatment on Control of Cereal Cyst Nematode Heterodera filipjevi on Wheat with Different Levels of Genetic Resistance
      • Thi Thanh Xuan Nguyen: Symptoms of Fusarium proliferatum on Maize Leaves
      • Leonard Kiirika, Frank Colditz, Hans-Peter Braun: The Role of Plant Defense Proteins During Early Symbiotic and Pathogenic Infection in Model Legume Medicago truncatula
      • Viktoria Kolbe, Laura Gottschalk, Heidrun Meyer, M. Imdadul Hoque, Rakha Hari Sarker, Salim Khan, Hanny Tantau, Hans-Peter Mühlbach, Mihir Lal Saha, Sheikh Shamimul Alam: Characterisation of Novel Bacteria of the Genus Pseudomonas from Dieback affected Dalbergia sissoo in Bangladesh
      • Johanna Gysin, Urs Scheidegger: Control of Phytophthora palmivora in Organic Cocoa in Southern Vietnam
      • Emmanuel Omogo Ogah, Adebayo A. Omoloye, Francis E. Nwilene: Assessing the Impact of New Rice for Africa (NERICA) in the Management of African Rice Gall Midge (Orseolia oryzivora, Harris and Gagné) in Nigeria
      • Olusola Ladokun, Adekunle Adejuwon: Amylase from Aspergillus fumigatus Associated with Deterioration of Rice (Oryza sativa)
      • Juliet Akello, Adenirin Chabi-Olaye, Richard A. Sikora: Seed Priming with Fungal Endophytes: A New Strategy to Minimize Leafminer Damage in Leguminous Crops
      • Lazgeen Assaf, Feyroz Ramadan Hassan, Gehan Younis: Effect of the Entomopathogenic Fungus Paceilomyces farinosus on the Reproductive Potential of Poplar Leaf Beetle Melasoma populi
      • Suchada Vearasilp, Jitramas Naka, Sa-nguansak Thanapornpoonpong, Dieter von Hörsten, Wolfgang Lücke: Influence of Milled Rice Packing Methods on Radio Frequency Heat Distribution in Controlling Aspergillus flavus and their Cooking Qualities
      • Shaza Nabhan, Kerstin Wydra: Pathogenicity of Soft Rot Bacteria from Potato on Tomato Plants, and Rapid Identification and Differentiation of the Pathogens by Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism
  
  
• Side events
  • Resilence, collapse, reorganisation
    • Oral Presentations
      • David M. Harper, Ed Morrison, Caroline Upton: Lake Naivasha: Plants, People & Politics
      • Maggie Opondo: Emerging Economic and Social Upgrading in the Kenyan Cut Flower Global Production Network
      • Patrick Sakdapolrak: Contested Riparian Land at Lake Naivasha - A Historical Perspective
      • Hanna Kunas: This Is Just a Place to Work - Understanding Life among Migrants at Lake Naivasha
      • Carolin Maevis: Mediated Immediacy - Safari Tourism in Kenya and the Making of an Authentic Experience of African Nature
      • Charles Trick: The Lake Naivasha Sustainability Project: An Ecosystem Health Approach
      • Robert Becht, Pieter van Oel, Anne van der Veen: Using Agent-based Modelling to Depict the Processes Leading to Basin Closure in the Naivasha Basin, Kenya
      • Daniel Kyalo, Arnim Kuhn, Karin Holm-Müller: Options for Improving the Design and Enforcement of Water Institutions in Lake Naivasha Basin, Kenya
      • Katharina Brüser, Jürgen Schellberg, Roelof Oomen, Jan Ruppert, Anja Linstädter, Frank Ewert: Remote Sensing Based Analysis of Spatio-temporal Vegetation Patterns in South African Rangeland at Different Scales
      • Anja Linstädter, Katharina Brüser, Jürgen Schellberg, Roelof Oomen, Jan Ruppert, Christiaan C. Du Preez, Frank Ewert: Is Degradation of South African Grasslands Related to Temporal Variability or Spatial Autocorrelation of Vegetation Parameters?
      • Clemens Greiner: Conservancies and Conflict: Perspectives on Pastoral Borderlands in East Pokot, Kenya
      • Andreas Jenet, Eunice Obala: Planning in Conflict - Experiences with the Conflict-Sensitive Programming Approach ``Do No Harm'' in Pastoralist Settings
      • Dyah Rahmawati Hizbaron, Muhammad Baiquni, Junun Sartohadi, R. Rijanta, Martin Coy: Assessing Social Vulnerability to Seismic Hazard through Spatial Multi Criteria Evaluation in Bantul District, Indonesia
      • Nodir Djanibekov, Rolf Sommer, Utkur Djanibekov: Options for Enhancing Resilience of Rural Populations to Reduced Water Availability in Uzbekistan
      • Joe Hill, Vasudha Chhotray: Precarious Livelihoods along India's Disaster-Prone Eastern Coastline: Socio-political and Environmental Dimensions of Vulnerability and Recovery
  • GIZ session
    • Oral Presentations
      • Anneke Trux: How Can the UNCCD and other Conventions Support and Enable Sustainable Land Management in Fragile Ecosystems?
      • Nike Affeld, Tanja Pickardt: Participation of the Local Population in the Context of Large-scale Land Acquisitions and Leases
      • Jutta Schmitz, Stephan Krall: Sustainable Management of Resources in Agriculture in a Fragile and Resource Poor Context
      • Martin Jovanov: Relevance of Agricultural Research for the Development of Sustainable Land Use Based on Agroforestry Systems in semi-Arid Areas of Bolivia
  • Rural services
    • Oral Presentations
      • Kamiljon Akramov, Nurbek Omuraliev: Reforming the Provision of Irrigation Services: Water Users Associations and Agricultural Production in Kyrgyzstan
      • Ephraim Nkonya, Nana Afranaa Kwapong, Bernhard Bashaasha, Margaret N. Mangheni, Edward Kato: Is the Provision of Agricultural Extension Services Better under Decentralised than under Centralised Government Systems? The Case of Uganda
      • Margaret N. Mangheni, Ephraim Nkonya, Bernhard Bashaasha, Edward Kato: Gender Differentials in Agricultural Extension Services: Empirical Evidence from Uganda
      • Nana Afranaa Kwapong: Cooperatives as Service Providers: The Revival of Agricultural Cooperatives in Uganda
      • Ulrike Mueller: Pro-poor Service Delivery and Social Identity: Emperical Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India
      • Madhushree Sekher, K. G. Gayathridevi, Regina Birner, Katharina Raabe: Reforming the Public Administration for Better Service Provision: A Comparative Study of Five Rural Services in Karnataka, India
      • Hima Devi Uprety, Michael Pregernig: Understanding the Exercise of Discretion in Community Forestry Policy Implementation: Application of Street-level Bureaucracy Theory to a Case Study from Nepal
      • Johanna Speer, Markus Hanisch: The Role of Participatory Governance for Overcoming Information Asymmetries in Rural Political Markets: A Case Study in Guatemala
      • William F. Vásquez Mazariegos, Ana Victoria Peláez Ponce, Regina Birner: Providing Safe Drinking Water in Guatemala: Comparing the Role of Local Governments, Communities and the Private Sector
  
  
• Index of Authors and Keywords