Tropentag 2009:

Biophysical and Socio-economic Frame Conditions
for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources

October 6 - 8, 2009, Hamburg, Germany


Scientific Presentations - Papers and Posters


Scientific Groups:

Desertification, sustainable management and global observatories
Socioeconomics of desertification
Monitoring and assessment of desertification

Climate change, carbon, soil and water
Socioeconomic aspects of resource management
Land, soil and water resources under a changing climate

Diversity and conservation
Conservation of biodiversity
Management and use of biodiversity

Crop science and land use
Mixed cropping systems / polycultures
Management of plant pests and diseases
Land use and water
New crops - new potentials
Biotic / abiotic pressure
Physiological aspects of crops and shrubs
Water use efficiency in cropping systems
Quantitative aspects of crop production
Organic and mineral fertilisers in cropping

Animal sciences
Sustainable livestock management
Livestock husbandry systems
Socioeconomy of livestock husbandry
Aquaculture
Monogastric livestock
Pasture and pastoral systems

Forest management and perennial crops
Forest management
Non-timber forest products and agroforestry
Forests and livelihoods

Institutions and macro-economics
Poverty, innovations and knowledge
Biofuel and (international) trade
Innovations and the environment
Ecosystem service payments
Financing and marketing
Research development and tenure

Food security, nutrition and health

Engineering

Participation

Micro-economics
Microeconomics: methodological approaches
Microeconomics: applied approaches

Approach of GTZ

Summer Schools


Desertification, sustainable management and global observatories

Socioeconomics of desertification

Chair: Mariam Akhtar-Schuster, University of Hamburg, Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Germany

Lead paper

ELENA MARíA ABRAHAM:
The Potential of Drylands Observatories to Contribute to Sustainable Dryland Development
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Oral Presentations

THOMAS TERHOEVEN-URSELMANS, TOR-GUNNAR VAGEN, ANDREW SILA, ELVIS WEULLOW, KEITH SHEPHERD:
Implementation of a Web-based System for Predicting Soil Fertility Constraints in Africa Using Infrared Spectroscopy
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JUTTA STADLER:
International Agreements for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity – with Special Emphasis on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
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ALCIDO ELENOR WANDER, CLEYZER ADRIAN CUNHA, MARIA IZABEL DOS SANTOS, RODRIGO DA SILVA SOUZA, AGOSTINHO DIRCEU DIDONET:
Rural Poverty and Soil Degradation: Some Evidences from a Land Reform Settlement in the Brazilian State of Goiás
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FATIME GUNES:
The Impact of Desertification on Welfare Positions of Farmers: The Case of Konya-Karapinar / Turkey
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DIRK LOHMANN, NIELS BLAUM, THOMAS FALK, EVA ROSSMANITH, MICHAEL KIRK, FLORIAN JELTSCH:
Sustainable Rangeland Management under Conditions of the Namibian Land Reform – Simulation Based Identification of Sustainable Strategic Patterns
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Monitoring and assessment of desertification

Chair: Elena María Abraham, Argentine Institute for Arid Lands Research - National Research and Technological Council, Laboratoy of Desertification and Land Management, Argentina

Lead paper

Oral Presentations

JENS OLDELAND, LENA LIECKFELD:
Spatial Extrapolation of Biomass Measurements in Savannah Ecosystems by Means of Remote Sensing
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ANNE LUMMERICH, KAI TIEDEMANN:
Fog Farming: Linking Sustainable Land Management with Ecological Renaturation in Arid Areas by Means of Reforestation
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THANH NGUYEN THI, MELVIN LIPPE, CARSTEN MAROHN, KARL STAHR, THOMAS HILGER, N.T. LAM, GEORG CADISCH:
Assessment of Land Cover Change in Chieng Khoi Commune, Northern Viet Nam by Combining Remote Sensing Tools and Historical Local Knowledge
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MANFRED FINCKH, ANNA AUGUSTIN, JENS OLDELAND:
The Desertification Paradox – Decreasing Degradability with Increasing Aridity in Semiarid to Arid Rangelands
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NIELS DREBER:
Severe Goat Grazing Alters Soil Seed Bank Characteristics and Regeneration Perspectives in Southern Arid Namibia
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ANNE RYSAVY, DOMINIQUE DUMET, KAI SONDER, JOACHIM SAUERBORN:
GIS Based Gap Analysis as a Tool for Biodiversity Conservation Optimisation: The IITA Cowpea Collection
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ANDREAS JENET, EUNICE OBALA, YUSUF LORIKA:
Improving Community Response to Droughts
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MARCO SCHMIDT, ULRIKE BRUNKEN, STEFAN DRESSLER, ADJIMA THIOMBIANO, STEFAN POREMBSKI, GEORG ZIZKA:
West African Plant Database – a Photo Guide and Identification Tool
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MCDONALD GOMANI, FLORENCE MAHAY, BONIFACE MBILINYI, OTTFRIED DIETRICH, LISCHEID GUNNAR:
Establishment of a Hydrological Monitoring System through a Participatory Approach in a Small Tropical Catchment in Tanzania: Learning Hydrology from the Local People
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OLIVER ZEMEK, THOMAS HILGER, CARSTEN MAROHN, M.H. HOANG, V.D. TUAN, N.T. LAM, GEORG CADISCH:
Biomass and Carbon Stocks Inventory of Perennial Vegetation in the Chieng Khoi Watershed, Northwest Viet Nam
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YOHANNES AYANU, CARSTEN MAROHN, N.V. DUNG, N.T. LAM, TRAN DUC VIEN, GEORG CADISCH:
Simulating Consequences of Landuse Change on Hydrological Landscape Functions and Sustainability of Crop Production in Northwest Vietnam
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HASSAN ELNOUR ADAM, ELMAR CSAPLOVICS:
Monitoring Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Land Cover/Use in the Gum Arabic Belt of Kordofan, Sudan by means of Remote Sensing and GIS
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IWAN RUDIARTO, WERNER DOPPLER:
Assessing Rural Land Resources through Spatial Analysis for Rural Development: A Case of Dieng Plateau, Central Java-Indonesia
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KOUROSH EHTERAMIAN, SHADI GHARAEI:
The Study of Spatial and Space Variation of Crop Seasonal Growth Period in the North Khorasan in Iran with GIS
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KOUROSH EHTERAMIAN, MAHDI VATANPRAST, SHADI GHARAEI:
Drought Monitoring by Using Remote Sensing Technique in Iran
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10 Posters

Climate change, carbon, soil and water

Socioeconomic aspects of resource management

Chair: Ulrike Grote, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute for Environmental Economics and World Trade, Germany

Lead paper

LEO STROOSNIJDER:
Soil as a Water Resource for Food Security
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Oral Presentations

JAN BöRNER, CHRISTIANE EHRINGHAUS, MEGHAN DOIRON:
Climate Risk in Rural Value Chains: Using System Dynamics for Adaptation Planning in the Brazilian Amazon
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MARC VöLKER, ERICH SCHMIDT, HERMANN WAIBEL:
Climatic Risk and Farm Planning: a Mathematical Programming Model for Typical Farms Households in the Mountainous Upland of Thua Thien Hue Province, Viet Nam
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KAROLIINA RIMHANEN, HELENA KAHILUOTO, REIMUND RöTTER:
Exploring Potential of Carbon Trading to Enhance Adaptive Capacity in Terms of Food Security in sub-Saharan Africa
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WOLDE MEKURIA, EDZO VELDKAMP, MITIKU HAILE:
Carbon Stock Changes with Relation to Land Use Conversion in the Lowlands of Tigray, Ethiopia
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NAHEED AKHTER, HEINER GOLDBACH, MANFRED DENICH:
Cropping Pattern and Nutritional Status of Soils in Hyderabad District of Pakistan
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SOVIANA SOVIANA, JOFI PUSPA:
Problems and Critics Toward Water Management in Megacities: A Case in Indonesia
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GIZAW DESTA GESSESSE, ANDREAS KLIK, HANS HURNI:
Assessment of Soil Erosion and Soil Conservation Practices in Angereb Watershed, Ethiopia: Technological and Land User Context
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RAIMUND KöSTERS, ANNE PREGER, FRANZISKA LAUER, CHRIS DU PREEZ, WULF AMELUNG:
Carbon Sequestration and Microbial Residues in Secondary Grassland Top Soils in the South African Highveld
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OLUYEDE C. AJAYI, FESTUS K. AKINNIFESI, GUDENTA SILESHI:
Designing Sustainable Soil Fertility Management Programmes: What Have we Learnt from Farmers' Perceptions and Preferences in Zambia and Malawi?
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ASTRID ARTNER, TILL BELOW, ROSEMARIE SIEBERT, STEFAN SIEBER:
Adaptation Practices and their Acceptance by Rural Smallholders: A Literature Review
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CINDY HUGENSCHMIDT, WALAYA SANGCHAN, JOACHIM INGWERSEN, STEFAN UHLENBROOK, YONGYUTH SUKVANACHAIKUL, THILO STRECK:
Hydrochemical Observation and Analysis of Streamflow Composition in a Mountainous Agricultural Watershed in a Subtropical Region
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STEPHEN KAYODE SUBAIR:
Agriculture and Water Resource Management: Implication for Rural Development in sub-Saharan Africa
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EMMANUEL KANCHEBE DERBILE:
Indigenous Knowledge on Soil Conservation for Crop Production in Yua Community, Northern Ghana
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9 Posters

Land, soil and water resources under a changing climate

Chair: Oliver Dilly, University of Hamburg, School of Integrated Climate System Sciences, Germany

Lead paper

Oral Presentations

PETER LADERACH, ANDY JARVIS, JULIAN RAMIREZ, ANTON EITZINGER:
The Implications of Climate Change on Mesoamerican Agriculture and Small-farmers Coffee Livelihoods
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MARTIN HAGEMANN, OGHAIKI ASAAH NDAMBI, TORSTEN HEMME:
Contribution of Dairying to Total Co2 Emissions Impact on Climate Change in Different Countries
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MAMADOU SATAO, MAGDALENA WERNER, LASSINE DIARRA, CHRISTIAN HüLSEBUSCH, BRIGITTE KAUFMANN:
Livelihood Strategies and Resource Availability of Agro-pastoralists in Mopti Region, Mali
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ALHASSAN LANSAH ABDULAI, MAMOUTOU KOURRESSY, MICHEL VAKSMANN, HOLGER BRüCK, FOLKARD ASCH:
Responses of Sorghum Varieties to Climatic Variability – a Case Study Within the Risocas Project
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JUSTICE AKPENE TAMBO:
Preparing for the Inevitable: the Role of Sustainable Agriculture in Addressing the Challenge of Climate Change
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VANESA RODRIGUEZ, RUI PEDROSO, HARTMUT GAESE, JAN BöRNER, CHRISTIANE EHRINGHAUS:
Smallholder Production and Climate Risk in the Baixo Amazonas Region, Brazil
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HOSSEIN SABAHI, HADI VEISI, MOHAMMAD FAIZI:
Study on the Variations of Water Quality of Sikan River Influenced by Agriculture Wastewater
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ROLDáN TORRES GUTIéRREZ, ROSELINE REMANS, ANNE WILLEMS, BETTINA EICHLER-LOEBERMANN, MERCEDES FERNáNDEZ-PASCUAL, MAGDIEL ALVAREZ MORALES, JAN MICHIELS, JOS VANDERLEYDEN:
Morphological Characterisation and Genetic Identification of Rhizobacteria in Cuban Agricultural Soils
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LUCIETA MARTORANO, MARGARETH MEIRELLES, AZENETH SCHULER:
Erosive Potential of Rains in the Climate Change Scenarios in the Upper Taquari River Basin, Brazil
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MARCUS GIESE, HOLGER BRüCK, MICHAEL DINGKUHN, PAUL KIEPE, FOLKARD ASCH:
Developing Rice and Sorghum Crop Adaptation Strategies for Climate Change in Vulnerable Environments in Africa – Risocas
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KAREN TSCHERNING, OTTFRIED DIETRICH, KURT CHRISTIAN KERSEBAUM, MERCY OJOYI, MCDONALD GOMANI, JOHANNES DIETZ, STEFAN SIEBER, FRIEDRICH-WILHELM GERSTENGARBE:
Resilient Agro-landscapes to Climate Change in Tanzania (The ReACCT-Project)
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MARIA MERCEDES MARTINEZ-SALGADO, RODRIGO ORTEGA BLU, MARC J. J. JANSSENS:
Spatial Variability of Nitrogen Mineralisation in Wine Grape Fields in Chile
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CHRISTOPH FISCHER, HANS FUCHS, NETRA BHANDARI, CHRISTOPH KLEINN, OLEG PANFEROV:
ALUCCSA: Adaptation of Land Use to Climate Change in sub-Saharan Africa (Concepts and Preliminary Results)
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EBRAHIM IZADI DARBANDI, MOHAMMAD HASAN RASHED MOHASSEL, ESKANDAR ZAND:
Evaluation of soil texture and organic matter on atrazine degradation and its half- life
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TIGIST OICHA WOLLELO, ANDREAS KLIK:
Impact of Tillage Practices on Dry Soil Aggregate Distribution in Different Soil Types in Austria
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RAHELEH JENABI HAGHPARAST, AHMAD GOLCHIN, EHSAN KAHNEH:
Study Effect of Heavy Metals Contamination on Growth of Earthworm (Eisenia Fetida) in two Calcareous and Acidic Soil
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KAREN TSCHERNING, SANDRO LUIS SCHLINDWEIN, FRANK EULENSTEIN, EVA REINING, ARMIN B. WERNER, MARCOS ALBERTO LANA, ANA CAROLINA FEITOSA DE VASCONCELOS, ANDREA FERREIRA HOFFMANN:
Climate Change and Anthropogenic Impacts on Land Use and Agriculture in the la Plata Basin, South America.
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JOHNSON FASINMIRIN:
Flood Regimes of the River Ala in Akure, a Peri-urban City of Nigeria
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JAMES ROBERT WACHIRA, HANS-MICHAEL POEHLING, RAINER MEYHOEFER:
Impacts of Climate Change on Insect Pests; A Case Study of Effects of High Temperature Pulses and Drought Stress on Plutella xylostella
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14 Posters

Diversity and conservation

Conservation of biodiversity

Chair: Barbara Rudolph, University of Hamburg, Biocentre Klein Flottbek, Germany

Lead paper

Oral Presentations

HERTA VIEGAS, CLAUDIA LEVY:
The Role of Environmental Education in Sustainable Management of Natural Resources: Insights from the São Paulo City Green Belt Biosphere Reserve, Brazil
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HEIDI HUMER-GRUBER, ERIC BETT, BERNHARD FREYER:
On-farm Tree Diversity Management for Livelihood Improvement and Enhanced Farm Based Diversity: Experiences from the East Mau Catchment, Nakuru, Kenya
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GAëLLE BOCKSBERGER, PHILIPPE DAGET, MARCO SCHMIDT, ADJIMA THIOMBIANO, BERNARD TOUTAIN, GEORG ZIZKA:
Diversity Distribution of Important Savannah Grasses in West Africa: Evolutionary Aspects and Implications for Conservation
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ZIPPORAH OSIEMO:
DNA Barcoding: A Method of Diversity Assessment of Termite Communities in Kakamega Forest, Kenya
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NIRMALA JOSHI, BRIGITTE L. MAASS, KATJA KEHLENBECK:
Inventorying Diversity, Use and Conservation Status of Indigenous Fruit and Nut Species of Nepal for Developing 'conservation through Use' Strategies
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MUHAMMAD ALI IMRON, UTA BERGER, SVEN HERZOG:
Tropical Deforestation Affects Long Term Persistence of Sumatran Tiger: A Modelling Study
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ABDOLBASET GHORBANI, JOACHIM SAUERBORN, GERHARD LANGENBERGER:
Wild Resource Use among Dai People in Nabanhe National Nature Reserve (NNNR): Cultural Importance of Medicinal and Food Plants
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EDUARDO ALANíS RODRíGUEZ, JAVIER JIMéNEZ PéREZ, OSCAR ALBERTO AGUIRRE CALDERON, MARISELA PANDO MORENO, EDUARDO JAVIER TREVIñO GARZA, PAMELA CANIZALES VELáZQUEZ:
Assessment of Diversity in Areas with Different Use Activities in the Tamaulipan Thornscrub, Mexico
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SIRAJ AHMAD, FAZLI RABBI:
Conservation of Endangered Plant Genetic Resources: Assessing the Role of Cultural and Religious Beliefs in the Sustainable Management of Sacred Forests in Pakistan
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IZHAR GOUZHARY, SIEGFRIED BAUER:
Analysis of Regional Industrial Cluster Development: An Example of Leather Industry in West Java-indonesia
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TIM THEOBALD, FRANK MUSSGNUG, MATHIAS BECKER:
The Potential of On-farm Fence Lines for Livelihood Improvement in Kakamega, Western Kenya
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LABEYRIE VANESSE, LEBOT VINCENT:
Conservation of Tropical Root Crop Diversity: True Seeds Production and Use On-farm as a Mean for Geographic Distribution of Allelic Diversity
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TAYE TESSEMA:
Invasive Alien Plant Species in Ethiopia: Impacts, Challenges and Responses
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ANNETTE WEIDNER, GULNARA BADRIDZE, FOLKARD ASCH, ANDREAS BöRNER:
Screening for Variability in Salt Tolerance within a Georgian Wheat Germplasm Collection
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CLAUDIA RAEDIG, SVEN LAUTENBACH:
Centres of Diversity and Narrow Endemism for Flowering Plants in the Mata Atlântica and their Potential Threats
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KORINNA NEULINGER, CHRISTIAN REINHARD VOGL, JOSé ARMANDO ALAYóN GAMBOA:
Ethnobotanic Examination of Tropical Home Gardens in Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico
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ISABEL MADALENO:
Medicinal Knowledge in Cuba – Domestic Prescriptions Using Front and Backyard Biodiversity
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KOROUS KHOSHBAKHT, ALI AKBAR REZAEI, JAFAR KAMBOUZIA, ABDOLMAJID MAHDAVI DAMGHANI:
Agro-biological and Socio-economical Diversity of Homegardens in Fereydan Region of Esfahan, Iran
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CLAUDIA LEVY:
Protected Areas: From Vertical Institutions to Collaborative Dynamics
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JINDRISKA CEPKOVA, BOHDAN LOJKA, PETRA CEPKOVA-HLASNA:
The Diversity of Inga edulis Mart. (Mimosoideae) in Peruvian Amazon
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16 Posters

Management and use of biodiversity

Chair: Jürgen Dengler, University of Hamburg, Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Germany

Lead paper

Oral Presentations

ALEXANDRA RINN, STEFANIE WEHNER:
Changing Landscapes, Changing Lifestyles in Xishuangbanna, SW-China identifying Farming-Systems and Emerging Inequalities in Naban National Nature Reserve
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TEMESGEN MAGULE OLANGO, TESFAYE BIZUAYEHU:
Management of Enset Diversity (Ensete Ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) Diversity in Wolaita, Southern Ethiopia: Farmers' Knowledge and Implications for On-farm Conservations
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DANIEL CALLO-CONCHA, MANFRED DENICH, PAUL L. G. VLEK:
Environmental Services in Agroforestry Systems. How to Assess Them?: Functional Biodiversity in Tomé-Açú, Nortern Brazil
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SAMUEL ASGEDOM, BEN VOSMAN, PAUL STRUIK:
Analysis of Diversity among and Heterogeneity within Tomato Cultivars from Eritrea
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MEIKE MOHNEKE, BILASSE ZONGO, JOACHIM NOPPER, JANA RIEMANN, JOSEPH I. BOUSSIM, MARK-OLIVER RöDEL:
(Un)sustainable Use of Frogs in West Africa and the Resulting Effects for the Ecosystem
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Crop science and land use

Mixed cropping systems / polycultures

Chair: Reinhard Lieberei, University of Hamburg, Biocenter Klein Flottbek, Department of Biology, Germany

Lead paper

EDUARDO SOMARRIBA:
Agroforestry, the Art and Science of Multiple Cropping with Woody Perennials: Examples with Theobroma Cacao
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Oral Presentations

ANKE MUELLER, TIL FEIKE, QING CHEN, SIMONE GRäFF-HöNNINGER, JUDIT PFENNING, WILHELM CLAUPEIN:
Developing an Improved Strip-intercropping System for Maize and Chinese Cabbage in the North China Plain
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JEETENDRA MAHAT, GUNTARS OLIVERS MARTINSON:
An Assessment of Carbon Sequestration Potential of Different Land Use Systems in Leyte, Philippines
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JOHANNA JACOBI, AXEL W. DRESCHER, PRIYANIE AMERASINGHE:
Crop Diversity as a Livelihood Strategy? The Case of Wastewater Irrigated Vegetable Cultivation Along the Musi River in Periurban Hyderabad, India
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BRAM MOESKOPS, SUKRISTIYONUBOWO, LENITA HERAWATY, EDI HUSEN, RASTI SARASWATI, DAVID BUCHAN, STEFAAN DE NEVE:
Soil Microbial Communities and Activities under Intensive Organic and Conventional Vegetable Farming in West Java, Indonesia
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Management of plant pests and diseases

Chair: Björn Niere, Julius Kühn-Institut, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for National and International Plant Health, Germany

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Oral Presentations

KLAUS MITHöFER, GEORGE OTIENO ONGAMO, BRUNO LERU:
Development of a Species Distribution Model for Lepidopteran Stem Borers and Associated Parasitoids in Kenya
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MOHAMMD ELNAZEIR MAHMOUD, SUNDAY EKESI, MOHAMMED KAMBAL:
Fruit Flies (Tephritidae: Diptera): Their Species Composition, Host Range and Field Response to Food-based and Male Lures Attractants
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LILIAN WANJIRU MBUTHIA, HENNING VON ALTEN, GISELA GRUNEWALDT-STöCKER:
The Interactions of Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Fungi (AMF) with Other Bio-control Agents in the Control of Fusarium Oxysporum F. Sp. Lycopersici
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MARIA ANYUSHEVA, NGUYEN LA, MARC LAMERS, THILO STRECK:
The Environmental Fate of Agrochemicals in Paddy Rice Fish Farming Systems in Northern Viet Nam
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NIGAT BEKELE, DAGMAR MITHöFER, DAVID AMUDAVI, GIDEON OBARE:
Integrated Pest Management Training and Information Flow among Smallholder Horticulture Farmers in Kenya
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HABIBULLAH BAHAR, JOHN STANLEY, PETER GREGG, ALICE DEL SOCORRO:
Do Green Lacewings (Mallada signata) Contribute to the Mortality of Helicoverpa on Transgenic Bt Cotton?
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MUNA SULTAN, HEINZ-WILHELM DEHNE, ULRIKE STEINER:
The Efficacy of Bacillus Amyloliquefaciens on Late Blight Development and Biomass of Phytophthora Infestans in Tomato Leaf Tissue
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BISHNU KUMARI BHANDARI, MOSHE COLL:
Interactions Between the Omnivorous Bug Orius Laevigatus and the Entomopathogenic Nematode Steinernema Feltiae, Natural Enemies of the Western Flower Thrips, Frankliniella Occidentalis
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MOHAMED BAKLAWA, SAMIA MASSOUD, GAMAL EL-KADY:
Identification of Root-knot Nematode Species Infecting Banana and Grape Orchards in Ismailia Governorate, Egypt
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MOHAMED BAKLAWA, SAMIA MASSOUD, BJöRN NIERE:
Occurrence of Cereal Cyst Nematodes (Heterodera spp.) in Wheat Fields in Ismailia Governorate, Egypt
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SRINIVASAN RAMASAMY, FU-CHENG SU, CHUN-CHU HUANG, MEI-YING LIN, YUN-CHE HSU:
Integrated Pest Management in Organic Vegetable Soybean Production
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CHRISTIAN HILLNHüTTER, THOMAS DUBOIS, DANNY COYNE, EROSTUS NSUBUGA, RICHARD A. SIKORA:
Improving Methods for Inoculation of Endophytic Fusarium Oxysporum to Tissue Culture Banana Plants
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IBRAHIM NDEGWA MACHARIA, HERMANN WAIBEL, DAGMAR MITHöFER:
Determinants of Pesticide Handling Practices in Vegetable Production in Kenya
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DIWAKAR DAHAL, ANDREAS PICH, KERSTIN WYDRA:
High-throughput Expression Profiling of Xylem Sap Proteome of Tomato from Both Susceptible and Resistant Genotypes with LC-MSMS
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FRANZISKA BERAN, SRINIVASAN RAMASAMY, CARMEN BüTTNER, INGA MEWIS, CHRISTIAN ULRICHS:
Factors Influencing Host Plant Preference of Phyllotreta striolata
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10 Posters

Land use and water

Chair: Christoph Reisdorff, University of Hamburg, Biocenter Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Germany

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Oral Presentations

SEBASTIAN WOLF, NINA BUCHMANN, WERNER EUGSTER:
Effects of Land Use on Carbon Cycling of Tropical Ecosystems in Panama
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USWAH HASANAH, CAMERON GRANT, ROBERT MURRAY:
Early Tomato Growth under Soil Aggregate Coalescence
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SOLOMON ASFAW, BEKELE SHIFERAW, FRANKLIN SIMTOWE:
Technology Adoption and Commercialisation of Dryland Legumes in Eastern and Southern Africa: Determinants, Impact and Future Outlook
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PETRA SCHMITTER, JENS TREFFNER, MAJA HERTEL, GERD DERCON, THOMAS HILGER, GEORG CADISCH:
Assessment of Water and Nitrogen Limitations to Paddy Rice Performance Using N-15 and C-13 Stable Isotopes
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KONRAD SIEGFRIED, DANIEL AMTHAUER GALLARDO, HERBERT DIETZ, ANDREAS BUERKERT:
Estimating Nutrient and Carbon Losses on an Irrigated Sandy Soil in Northern Oman
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RASHMI NARAYANA, POORNIMA NAGARAJU, CHANDRAKANTH MYSORE:
Economics of Groundwater Recharge for Sustainable Watershed Development
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PRITAM SALIAN, CLAUDIA CASAROTTO:
Water Governance in Zambia – the Case of the Kafue River Basin
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NILHARI NEUPANE, ERNST-AUGUST NUPPENAU:
Does Political Power Matter for the Amount and Type of Resource Contribution in Locally Managed Irrigation Systems: A Case Study from Nepal
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ANDREAS BORGMANN, SANDRA GREASSIDIS, SYLVIA JASCHINSKI, CHRISTIAN JOLK:
The Quality of Geodata in Vietnam in the IWRM Process – a Challenge
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MAYA SUBEDI, GOPAL DATT BHATTA:
Effects of Local Resources and Nitrogen on Soil Water Ph and Yield of Lowland Rice in Nepal
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HELLEN KAMIRI, MATHIAS BECKER:
Effect of Land Use Patterns on Soil Properties of Agriculturally Used Wetlands in East Africa
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JEGADEESAN MUNIANDI, FUJITA KOICHI:
Tradtitional Institution in Tank Water Management: Case of Tamil Nadu, India
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SABINE STüRZ, ABDOULAYE SOW, ISABEL SCHLEGEL, BABOUCARR MANNEH, FOLKARD ASCH:
Annual Variation of Water Use and Yield of Irrigated Rice in the Sahel
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SUDEH DEHNAVI, BEATRICE KNERR:
The Consequences of Ground-water Level Lowering on the Socio-economic Conditions of the Population at the Darab Central Plain, Iran
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SUDEH DEHNAVI, BEATRICE KNERR:
The Effects of the Current Cropping Pattern on the Sustainability of Ground-water Resources in the Darab Central Plain
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WILDAN SYAFITRI, BEATRICE KNERR:
The Impact of Scarcity of Water and Land Resources on Poverty and Migration in East Java
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NAOMIE SAKANE, MATTHIAS LANGENSIEPEN:
Agent-based Simulation of Human-environment Interactions in Small Wetlands in Kenya and Tanzania
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12 Posters

New crops - new potentials

Chair: Douglas Steinmacher, University of Hamburg, Biocenter Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Germany

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MANDLENKOSI SIBANDA, NGONIDZASHE CHIRINDA:
The Paradox of Crop Selection in Semi Arid Chivi District, Zimbabwe
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BALAKRISHNAN NAIR:
Medicinal Plant Resource Management for Health and Livelihood Security in Some Rural Parts of India
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MARTIN HALLENSLEBEN, SEVERIN POLREICH, JOACHIM HELLER, BRIGITTE L. MAASS:
Assessment of the Importance and Utilisation of Cowpea (Vigna Unguiculata L. Walp.) as Leafy Vegetable in Small-scale Farm Households in Tanzania – East Africa
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MATTHIAS JäGER, STEFANO PADULOSI, WILFREDO ROJAS, ROBERTO VALDIVIA:
New Life for Ancient Grains: Improving Livelihoods, Income and Health of Andean Communities
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ANDREAS OSWALD, KAIYUN XIE, FERNANDO EZETA:
Minimum Tillage Systems with Potato in Winter Cropping Regions of Subtropical China
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Biotic / abiotic pressure

Chair: Hans-Peter Mühlbach, University of Hamburg, Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Germany

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NDAMBI BENINWECK ENDAH, GEORG CADISCH, ABULEGASIM ELZEIN, HELLER ANNEROSE:
Interactions between the Mycoherbicide Fusarium oxysporum F. sp. Strigae and Sorghum Roots
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HANS-PETER MüHLBACH, HANNY TANTAU, STEPHANIE VOGEL, STEFFI RENK, DOROTHEE SCHULTZ, M. IMDADUL HOQUE, RAKHA HARI SARKER, JANA SCHULZE, SALIM KHAN:
Investigations of Biotic Agents Associated with Dieback Disease of Dalbergia sissoo Roxb. in Bangladesh
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SEBASTIAN LINSEL, CLAUDIA KAMMANN, HANS-WERNER KOYRO:
Influence of Biochar-application on the Drought Stress of Plants
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AZZA SIDDIG HUSSIEN ABBO, MOHAMED OSMAN IDRIS, MUSTAFA M. A. ELBALLA:
The Responce of Tea Tree Oil as a Biofungicide Against Early Blight Disease in Tomato Crop (Lycopersicon Esculentum Mill.) in Sudan
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MOHAMMAD KAZEM SOURI, GüNTER NEUMANN, VOLKER RöMHELD:
Investigating Inhibition of Nitrification Process by Compounds Released in Root Exudates of Brachiaria Humidicola Plants
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KATRIN ENGEL, MATHIAS BECKER, FOLKARD ASCH:
Efficiency of Adaptation Mechanisms of Rice to Diverse Conditions of Iron Toxicity
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LE LE WIN, ANNA KEUTGEN, ELKE PAWELZIK:
Influence of Mineral Nutrition and Combination of Mineral and Organic Nutrition at Different Nitrogen Levels on the Root Yield and Nutritional Qualities of a Common Carrot Cultivar from Myanmar
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SUNILDA TERRE, FOLKARD ASCH, MATHIAS BECKER:
Influence of Bacillus spp. on Iron Plaque Formation at the Root Surface of Lowland Rice
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HILDA LUZ LEZCANO CACERES, GERHARD GEROLD:
The Cost of Invasion Control Measures Subtropical Ailanthus Altissima (Mill) Swingle in Hesse
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MAYMOONA AHMED EISA, MECHTHILD ROTH:
A Survey on the Longhorned Beetles Species (Cerambycidae) on Acacia Trees of Northern Kordofan State, Gum Arabic Belt-sudan
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DALIA MUBARAK, RUDOLF SCHULZ, REINER RUSER, JöRN BREUER, MOHAMED MOSTAFA, FIKRI AWAD, TORSTEN MüLLER:
Removal of Cadmium and Lead by Organo-clay Complexes from Contaminated Wastewater
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FIRDES CETIN, ANDREAS FRICKE, HARTMUT STüTZEL:
Interactions Between Tomato Scion and Rootstock Varieties Regarding Growth and Development under Different Water Supply Levels
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AMEHA Y. GEBREIYESUS, THOMAS DEBENER:
Genetic Characterisation of Resistance Genes Against Black Spot (Diplocarpon Rosae Wolf) in Rose Populations
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DAMODAR POUDYAL, MARC ZAHN, HARTMUT STüTZEL, RALF UPTMOOR:
Differential Response of Low Root Zone Temperature and Drought on Tomato Introgression Lines
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Physiological aspects of crops and shrubs

Chair: Douglas Steinmacher, University of Hamburg, Biocenter Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Germany

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YUSRAN YUSRAN, SUDIRMAN DG. MASSIRI:
Improvement of Germination Rate of Lontar (Borassus flabellifer L.) Seed through Physical and Chemical Treatments
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MUHAMMAD SOHAIL, AMINA SAIED, JENS GEBAUER, ANDREAS BUERKERT:
Effects of Seed Stratification Treatments on Germination of Grewia Tenax (Forssk.) Fiori a Wild Fruit Species
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ARISOA RAJAONA, HOLGER BRüCK, FOLKARD ASCH:
Description of the Spatial Arrangement of the Physic Nut (Jatropha Curcas L.) Root System - a Case Study from Madagascar
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EHSAN KAHNEH, ROGHAYEH GHANBARPOUR DIZBONI, MASOUMEH MOSHFEGHI MOHAMMADI:
Impact of 12 Years of Poplar Cultivation on the Availability of some Soil Nutrients in Safrabasteh, Iran
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Water use efficiency in cropping systems

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USMAN KHALID AWAN, BERNHARD TISCHBEIN, CHRISTOPHER MARTIUS:
Evaluation of Irrigation Efficiency at Different Spatial Scales in a sub-Unit of the Khorezm Irrigation and Drainage System Located in the Lower Amu Darya River Basin
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KAMAL SADATESMAILAN, SEYED ALI MOHAMMAD MODARRES-SANAVY, SAEED HAJILOEE:
Effect of Water Deficit Stress on Antioxidant Enzyme Activities in Seedlings of Perennial Alfalfa Ecotypes
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LINDA YUYA GORIM, FOLKARD ASCH, MANFRED TRIMBORN:
Seed Coating with Hydro-absorbent Properties as Possible Mitigation Strategy for Unreliable Rainfall Patterns in Early-sown Sorghum
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SUCHIT PRASAD SHRESTHA, FOLKARD ASCH, HOLGER BRüCK, JULIE DUSSERRE, ALAIN RAMANANTSOANIRINA:
Upland Rice Adaptation to Variable Water Availability along an Altitude Gradient in Madagascar
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ALAIN RAMANANTSOANIRINA, JULIE DUSSERRE, SUCHIT PRASAD SHRESTHA, FOLKARD ASCH:
Temperature Effects on the Phenology of Upland Rice Grown along an Altitude Gradient in Madagascar
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ERNESTO GóMEZ PADILLA, RAúL C. LóPEZ SáNCHEZ, BETTINA EICHLER-LOEBERMANN, MERCEDES FERNáNDEZ-PASCUAL, KATIA ALARCóN BARRERO, LEANDRIS ARGENTEL MARTíNEZ:
Salt Stress Effects on Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) Varieties at Different Growing Stages
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KATRIN HANS, JENNY ZYWIETZ, FRANK MUSSGNUG, MATHIAS BECKER:
Effect of Plant Species on Biomass Accumulation, Nutrient Uptake and Water Quality in a Constructed Wetland for Wastewater Treatment in Vietnam
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CARLOS ANGULO, REINER WASSMANN, MATHIAS BECKER:
Variation of Rice Yields in the Philippines: Impact of Climate Variability and Yield Gap Analysis
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MAYA SUBEDI, MATHIAS BECKER, CHRISTINE KREYE:
Effect of Soil Water Conditions and Ph on Micronutrient Uptake by Aerobic Rice
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GLORIA OBIANUGBA, HARTMUT STüTZEL, THOMAS DEBENER, RALF UPTMOOR:
Genetic Analysis of Pre-flowering Drought Resistance in Sorghum
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BEATE BöHME, MATHIAS BECKER, GERD FöRCH:
Soil Water Availability for Agricultural Use in Small Wetlands in East Africa
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COLLINS HANDA, NAOMIE SAKANE, BEATE BOEHME, HELLEN KAMIRI, EMILIANA MWITA, NEEMA MOGHA:
Characterisation of Small Wetlands in East Africa
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FáNOR CASIERRA POSADA, NANCY GóMEZ, PAOLA ANDREA ALVARADO PRINCE, CARLOS BERDUGO:
Growth of Sisal Plants (Furcraea Castilla and F. macrophylla) under Flooding Stress
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EMILIANA MWITA, GUNTER MENZ, SALOME MISANA:
Detection of the Extent, Distribution, and Use Patterns of Small Wetlands in East Africa by Remote Sensing
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BEHNAM BEHTARI, BEHZAD BEHTARI, HODA ABADIYAN:
Quality and Quantity Responses of Soybean (Glycine Max L.) Seeds to Water Deficit
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Quantitative aspects of crop production

Chair: Heike Knörzer, University of Hohenheim, Department of Crop Production and Grassland Research, Germany

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HEIKE KNöRZER, SIMONE GRäFF-HöNNINGER, WILHELM CLAUPEIN:
Simulating a Wheat-Maize Intercropping System with the DSSAT Crop Growth Model
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KELVIN MARK MTEI, FRANK MUSSGNUG, MATHIAS BECKER:
Socio-ecological Niches for Technologies to Improve Soil Fertility and Maize Production in Kakamega, Western Kenya
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ELENA GIOSEFFI, FRANCESCO GIUFFRIDA, CHERUBINO LEONARDI, ANDREAS DE NEERGAARD:
Plant Liquid Extracts as Low Cost, Fast Release Fertilisers for Vegetable Production in Tropical Countries
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TIGIST OICHA WOLLELO, WIM CORNELIS, HUBERT VERPLANCKE, JAN NYSSEN, SEPPE DECKERS, MINTESINOT BEHAILU, MITIKU HAILE, BRAM GOVAERTS:
Short Term Effects of Conservation Agriculture on Soil Erosion and Agronomic Parameters of Teff (Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter) on the Vertisols of Northern Ethiopian Highlands
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FRANCIS E.A. NGOME, FRANK MUSSGNUG, MATHIAS BECKER:
Targeting Technical Options to Address Maize Production Constraints in Kakamega, Kenya
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JOSHUA OKONYA, ROBERT OMADI, SEVERIN POLREICH, BRIGITTE L. MAASS:
How Does Traditional Harvesting of Young Leaves for Vegetable Use Affect Seed Yields of Cowpea Variety Mixtures in Eastern Uganda?
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FáNOR CASIERRA POSADA, JAIME PEñA OLMOS, PAOLA ANDREA ALVARADO PRINCE, CARLOS BERDUGO:
Growth of Mycorrhyzal Lulo Plants (Solanum Quitoense Lam. Var. Septentrionale) Affected by Shading
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AFOUDA JACOB YABI:
Efficiency in Rice Production: Evidence from Gogounou District in the North of Benin
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Organic and mineral fertilisers in cropping

Chair: Anne Njeri Karanja, University of Bonn, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Germany

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SULIEMAN ALI, CHRISTIAN AHL:
Phytotoxicity and Nitrogen Mineralisation of Composted and Vermicomposted Cotton Residues
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THUWEBA DIWANI, MATHIAS BECKER, FRANK MUSSGNUG:
Implications of Resource Management on Soil Fertility in Common Farm Types in Kakamega, Western Kenya
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ANA KARINA CARRASCAL-CAMACHO, MARIA MERCEDES MARTINEZ-SALGADO, KAREM FERNANDEZ, VIVIANA GUTIERREZ:
Determination of Compost Quality in a Lettuce Crop in the Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia
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MARTINA PREDOTOVA, EVA SCHLECHT, ANDREAS BUERKERT:
Losses of Carbon and Nitrogen from Ruminant Manure Storage in Urban Gardens of Niamey, Niger
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ANNE NJERI KARANJA, MATHIAS BECKER, FRANK MUSSGNUG:
Response of Home Garden Crops to Organic Amendments in Different Soils of Kakamega District, Western Kenya
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Animal sciences

Sustainable livestock management

Chair: Manfred Finckh, University of Hamburg, Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Germany

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Oral Presentations

RAKOTOMALALA YEDIDYA RATOVONAMANA, IRIS KIEFER, JöRG GANZHORN:
Impact of Livestock Grazing on the Dry Ecosystems of Southern Madagascar
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RAINER NEIDHARDT, PAULINA CAMPOS MONTEROS:
Livestock: Threat or Natural Resource for the Future?
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UTA DICKHOEFER, ANDREAS BUERKERT, KATJA BRINKMANN, EVA SCHLECHT:
The Role of Pasture Management for Sustainable Livestock Production in Semi-arid Subtropical Mountain Regions
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LOK NATH PAUDEL, CLEMENS WOLLNY, MATTHIAS GAULY:
Socio-economic and Biophysical Conditions for the Sustainable Livestock Management: A Case Study of Nepal
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JOERG JORES, JAN NAESSENS:
Development of Urgently Needed Improved Diagnostic Test for CBPP, a Devastating Cattle Disease in Africa
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TAMADOR ELKHANSAA ELNOUR ANGARA:
Socio-economic Aspects of Brucellosis in Kuku Dairy Scheme
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MOHAMMAD MOHI UDDIN, MST. NADIRA SULTANA, KURT-JOHANNES PETERS:
Analysis of the Provision of Artificial Insemination (AI) Services Across the Organisational Structure in Bangladesh: Development of Sustainable AI Service Structure
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RAWLYNCE BETT, C.B. WASIKE, A.K. KAHI, KURT-JOHANNES PETERS:
Participatory Assessment of Institutional and Organisational Challenges Confronting Dairy Goat Management in Kenya
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DIMANG SOEM, THIPHAVONG BOUPHA, WERNER STüR, MOM SENG:
Impact of Forage Fodder Bank Adoption on Labour Use for Feeding Cattle of Smallholder Households in Prey Chhor District, Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia
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FRED UNGER, JEFF MARINER, CLARE NARROD, I. SYAFRISON, BUSTANUL ARIFIN, A. SUDARMAN, NUNUNG NURYARTONO, B. SUMIARTO, ELLY SAWITRI SIREGAR:
Pro Poor Risk Reduction Strategy for HPAI Control in Backyard Poultry in Indonesia: A Situation Overview and Approaches Used
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SIMON G. KURIA, AMOS OMORE, I.N. THENDIU, D.M. MWANGI, A.B. NGA'NGA, S. KAITIBIE:
Constraints on Camel Meat and Milk Marketing and Strategies for its Improvement in the Arid and Semi-arid Northern Kenya
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RAWLYNCE BETT, HILLARY KIPLANGAT BETT, A.K. KAHI, KURT-JOHANNES PETERS:
Willingness to Pay for Breeding and Production Services: Application of a Contingent Valuation to Dairy Goat Breeding Programmes in Kenya
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KESINEE GATPHAYAK, CHAVIN CHAISONGKRAM, RANGSUN CHAROENSOOK, SUMALEE TAESOONGNERN, BERTRAM BRENIG, CHRISTOPH KNORR:
Physiology and Genetics of Heat Tolerance in Thai Native Cattle
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NOPPADON CHOOSMUT, CHOKE MIKLED, NATTAPHON CHONGKASIKIT, SUPHAROEK NAKKITSET, VICHIT SONLOY, KANITTA TIKAM:
Performance of Mehsana Buffalo Calf Raising
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TRI SATYA MASTUTI WIDI, TETY HARTATIK:
The Characteristics and Performances of Sonok Compared to Karapan Cows as Important Consideration for Conservation of Madura Cattle
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11 Posters

Livestock husbandry systems

Chair: Christian Hülsebusch, German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL), Germany

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BELETE ANTENEH, AZAGE TEGEGNE, FEKADU BEYENE, BERHANU GEBREMEDHIN:
Fluid Milk and Butter Production and Marketing Systems in Fogera District, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
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SOUHEILA ABBEDDOU, JUERGEN DIEKMANN, BARBARA RISCHKOWSKY, MICHAEL KREUZER, ASTRID OBERSON:
Effect of Feeding of Fat-tailed Sheep and Manure Treatment on Nitrogen Fluxes in the Soil-plant System
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RODRIGUE DIOGO, ANDREAS BUERKERT, EVA SCHLECHT:
Resource Use Efficiency in Urban and Peri-urban Livestock Enterprises in Niamey, Niger
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HUYEN LE THI THANH, THI TUYET VAN DINH, PERA HEROLD, ANNE VALLE ZáRATE:
Smallholder Cattle Production in Northern Mountainous Viet Nam in Relation with the Poverty Status of the Household
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MIRANDA PEN, DARRYL SAVAGE, WERNER STüR, MOM SENG:
Constraints to Cattle Production of Small-scale Farmers in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia
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ALBERT SOUDRE, GEORGES ANICET OUEDRAOGO, OLIVIER HANOTTE, MARIA WURZINGER, JOHANN SöLKNER:
Trypanosomosis and Cattle Health Management in Three Regions of Burkina Faso
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ANURAGA JAYANEGARA, CARLA SOLIVA, SVENJA MARQUARDT, ELISABETH WINA, MICHAEL KREUZER, FLORIAN LEIBER:
Screening of Tropical Plants Possessing a Low Methane Formation Potential and High Ruminal Digestibility in vitro
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SHEHADEH KASKOUS, YASSIN MASRI, AL-MOUTASSEM AL-DAKER, AB-DALLAH NOUH, RUPERT BRUCKMAIER:
Effect of Machine-milking Regimes on Lactation Performance and Oxytocin Release in Syrian Shami Cattle
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CHAKRAPONG CHAIKONG, JAN MAXA, EVA SCHLECHT, MATTHIAS GAULY:
Comparisons of Beef Buffalo and Beef Cattle Farming in Northeastern Thailand
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C.B. WASIKE, RAWLYNCE BETT, A.K. KAHI, KURT-JOHANNES PETERS:
Methodological Approach to Analyse the Efficiency of Animal Recording Practices
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SOMPONG SRUAMSIRI, PEERAWAT CHOOPENG, PIROTE SILMAN:
Effect of Ensiled Pineapple Waste with Rice Straw as Roughage Source on Rumen Fermentation Products
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7 Posters

Socioeconomy of livestock husbandry

Chair: E.R. Orskov, International Feed Resources Unit, United Kingdom

Lead paper

Oral Presentations

HARUN WARUI, BRIGITTE KAUFMANN, CHRISTIAN HüLSEBUSCH, HANS-PETER PIEPHO, ANNE VALLE ZáRATE:
Pastoralists' Perspectives on Multi-functional Role of Small Ruminants in their Production Systems in Arid Areas of Northern Kenya
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MOHAMAD YASER AMIN, KURT-JOHANNES PETERS:
Management of Awassi Sheep Flocks in Syria
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MOHAMMAD MOHI UDDIN, MST. NADIRA SULTANA, OGHAIKI ASAAH NDAMBI, OTHMAN ALQAISI, TORSTEN HEMME, KURT-JOHANNES PETERS:
Socio-economic Sustainability of Dairy Production Systems in Bangladesh
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AZAGE TEGEGNE, GEBREMEDHIN WOLDEWAHID, ZEWDU AYELE, KAHSAY BERHE:
Farmer Innovation and Market-oriented Livestock Production in Ethiopia – Key to Sustainable Natural Resources Management
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OTHMAN ALQAISI, OGHAIKI ASAAH NDAMBI, MOHAMMAD MOHI UDDIN, TORSTEN HEMME:
Feed Efficiency and Feed Cost in Holstein Friesian Dairy Herds Worldwide
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Aquaculture

Chair: Mark Prein, Univeristy of Hohenheim, Department of Animal Production in the Tropics and Subtropics, Germany

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JENNIFER HAUCK, MARK PREIN:
Fisheries in the Small Reservoirs of Northern Ghana: Opportunities and Constrains of a New Natural Resource
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SAHAR MEHANNA:
Growth, Mortality and Spawning Stock Biomass of Red Mullet Mullus Barbatus in the Egyptian Mediterranean Waters
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NGUYEN NGOC TUAN, ULFERT FOCKEN:
Earthworm Powder as Potential Protein Source in Diets for Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio L.)
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FRED WEIROWSKI, ANDREA LIESE, CHRISTOPHER KAAN:
Fishing for Expertise – the Role of the Private Partner in Public-private Partnerships in Aquaculture and Fisheries
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VIKAS KUMAR, HARINDER P. S. MAKKAR, KLAUS BECKER:
Detoxified Jatropha Curcas Kernel Meal: an Excellent Fish Meal Replacer in Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) Diet
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ABDUSSALAM ABUMHARA:
Masculinisation of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) Fry by Immersion in 17alpha-methyltestosterone
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AYLIN TSCHANADI, INGO WEHRTMANN, ULFERT FOCKEN:
Utilisation of By-catch and Processing Wastes from a Marine Fishery in Feeds for the Organic Aquaculture of Litopenaeus Vannamei in Costa Rica
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SELMA WURST, INGO WEHRTMANN, ULFERT FOCKEN:
Evaluation of Protein-rich Feed Ingredients for the Organic Production of Freshwater Prawns Macrobrachium Rosenbergii by Smallholders in the Inlands of Costa Rica
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WIRAT KRASACHAT:
Economic Efficiency of Shrimp Farms in Thailand under Good Agricultural Practice System
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S.P. KAM, S.J. TEOH, G. KHOTA, G. KANYERERE:
GIS Mapping of Pond Aquaculture Potential in Southern Malawi, Africa
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PETRA HOLIKOVA, LUKAS KALOUS, MILOSLAV PETRYL, THE AHN BUI, JAN BANOUT, DANA POLAKOVA:
Can We Still Improve Aquaculture Production in Viet Nam? Aspects of Freshwater Fish Production in Mountain Areas of Northern Viet Nam
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6 Posters

Monogastric livestock

Chair: Bianca Haussner, University of Hohenheim, Department of Animal Production in the Tropics and Subtropics, Germany

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RANGSUN CHAROENSOOK, BERTRAM BRENIG, KESINEE GATPHAYAK, SUMALEE TAESOONGNERN, CHRISTOPH KNORR:
Genetic Identity of Native Pig Breeds in Northern Thailand Evidenced by Microsatellite Markers
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LUIS ALBERTO GONZáLEZ DíAZ, SANDRA HOEDTKE, ANNETTE ZEYNER:
In Vitro Ensilability of Jack Bean (Canavalia ensiformis) and Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) Grains Sole or Mixed with Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) Grains: an Alternative for Low Input Pig Feeding Systems
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TAKELE TAYE:
The African Civet Cat (Viverra civetta) and its Life Supporting Role in the Livelihood of Smallholder Farmers in Ethiopia
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BIANCA HAUSSNER, ANDRé MARKEMANN, ANNE VALLE ZáRATE:
Local Fodder Resources in the Feeding Management of Smallholder Pig Producers in Northern Viet Nam
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OLUFEMI S. AKINOLA, AMOS O. FANIMO, J. ADENIYI AGUNBIADE, ANDREAS SUSENBETH, EVA SCHLECHT:
Nutritional Evaluation of Cassava by-Products and Shrimp Waste Meal in Diets for Growing Pigs
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SIMON RIEDEL, ANNE SCHIBORRA, CHRISTIAN HüLSEBUSCH, MAO HUAMING, EVA SCHLECHT:
Reproductive and Growth Performance of the Indigenous Small Ear Pig from Southwestern China
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OLUFEMI ADEBIYI, ANTHONY OLOGHOBO, ADERINSOLA OGUNDEJI:
Nutritional Evaluation of Cowpea Seedhulls Using Different White Rot Fungi
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KESINEE GATPHAYAK, SUMALEE TAESOONGNERN, T. APICHARTSRUNGKOON, RATCHANEEWAN KUMPHAKARM, VICHA SARDSUD, CHRISTOPH KNORR:
Production Efficiency of Crossbred Pigs in Cho Han Kyu's Natural Farming System in Northern Thailand
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KESINEE GATPHAYAK, SUPALERK LAIPRAWAT, T. APICHARTSRUNGKOON, PONGPHAN NANTAKANG, CHRISTOPH KNORR:
Natural Farming for Small Pig Farms in Northern Thailand
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KESINEE GATPHAYAK, SANTI PINTHUKAS, KAEWALIN KUNASAKDAKUL, PAWIN PADUNGTOD, SUMALEE TAESOONGNERN, VICHA SARDSUD, CHRISTOPH KNORR:
Efficiency of Indigenous Fungi for Controlling Pathogenic Bacteria in a Swine Natural Farming System
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HILLARY KIPLANGAT BETT, KURT-JOHANNES PETERS, A.K. KAHI, JOB LAGAT, WOLFGANG BOKELMANN:
An Economic Analysis of the Market Channels and Factors Influencing Indigenous Chicken Marketing in Kenya
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11 Posters

Pasture and pastoral systems

Chair: Uta Dickhoefer, University of Kassel / University of Göttingen, Animal Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics, Germany

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REGINA NEUDERT, NAIBA ALLAHVERDIYEVA:
Within the Bounds of Economic and Ecological Possibilities – Prospects for Pastoralism in Azerbaijan
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OLUSOLA OLORUNNISOMO, OLUFEMI JULIUS AYODELE, TOLULOPE OSOSANYA:
Yield and Nutritive Value of Maize-amaranth Mixtures for West African Dwarf Sheep
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ALINE DOS SANTOS NEUTZLING, UTA DICKHOEFER, EVA SCHLECHT:
Development and Productivity Indicators of Goat Herds on Al Jabal al Akhdar, Northern Oman
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SABINE DOUXCHAMPS, EMMANUEL FROSSARD, REIN VAN DER HOEK, ALEXANDER BENAVIDEZ, MARTIN MENA, AXEL SCHMIDT, ASTRID OBERSON:
Edaphic and Topographic Factors Explaining Canavalia Brasiliensis Production in the Nicaraguan Hillsides
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HUMBERTO ALZéRRECA, MARCO MIRANDA, ANDREA CORINNA MAYER, MICHAEL KREUZER, SVENJA MARQUARDT:
Changes in Forage Biomass and Cattle Live Weight under Three Different Cattle Stocking Densities in Subtropical Mountain Wooded Pastures in Tarija, Bolivia
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SIRIWAN MARTENS, CARLOS LASCANO, PATRICIA AVILA, LUIS H. FRANCO, BELISARIO HINCAPIE, MICHAEL PETERS:
Improving Milk Yield with Canavalia brasiliensis
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MATTHIAS MEYER, ANNE SCHIBORRA, SIMON RIEDEL, CHRISTIAN HüLSEBUSCH, EVA SCHLECHT:
Impact of Expanding Rubber Cultivation and Increasing Mechanisation on the Buffalo Population in the Nabanhe National Nature Reserve, Yunnan Province, P.R. China
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UTA DICKHOEFER, ALINE DOS SANTOS NEUTZLING, EVA SCHLECHT:
Shall the Animals Graze? - Analysing the Efficiency of Traditional Goat Husbandry in the Al Jabal Al Akhdar Mountains of Oman
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SIMON RIEDEL, ANNE SCHIBORRA, KATJA BRINKMANN, CHRISTIAN HüLSEBUSCH, EVA SCHLECHT:
Characterisation of Livestock Production Systems in the Naban He National Nature Reserve, Yunnan Province, China
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KATJA BRINKMANN, ANDREAS BUERKERT, UTA DICKHOEFER, EVA SCHLECHT:
Spatial and Temporal Changes in Biomass Production of Rangelands on Al Jabal al Akhdar, Northern Oman
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PILASRAK PANPRASERT, SANCHAI JATURASITHA, THERDCHAI VEARASILP, MICHAEL WICKE, MATTHIAS GAULY:
Effect of Pasture vs Concentrate Feeding on Carcass and Meat Characteristics of Finishing Swamp Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)
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DANIELA HAARMEYER, UTE SCHMIEDEL, JüRGEN DENGLER, BRITTA BöSING:
How Does Grazing Intensity Affect Different Vegetation Types in South African Semi-arid Rangelands? Implications for Conservation Management
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12 Posters

Forest management and perennial crops

Forest management

Chair: Michael Köhl, University of Hamburg, Center for Forestry, Germany

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WULF KILLMANN:
Forests, Land Use Change and Climate Change
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PIA PAROLIN:
Vigorous Tree Growth in a Flooded Environment: Diversity and Flood Adaptations of Amazonian Floodplain Forests
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KHIN MAUNG SINT, HOLGER MILITZ, FRANTISEK HAPLA:
Promoting Utilisation of two Light Broad-leaved Lesser-used Timber Species
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CHRISTOPH LEIBING, MAARTEN VAN ZONNEVELD, ANDY JARVIS, BILL DVORAK:
Adaptation of Tropical and Subtropical Pine Plantation Forestry to Climate Change: Climate Proofing Seed Material of Pinus Patula and Pinus Tecunumanii
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FIDèLE BOGNOUNOU, PATRICE SAVADOGO, ADJIMA THIOMBIANO:
Latitudinal Gradient in Woody Species in Western Burkina Faso
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STEFAN HOHNWALD, MARI KUKKONEN, HANNU RITA, ANJA NYGREN:
Timber Regeneration in Treefall Gaps of Certified, Conventionally Managed, and National Park Forests in Northern Honduras
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JOYCE LEPETU, OLADIMEJI IDOWU OLADELE:
Socio-economic Determinants of Forest Conservation in Botswana
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MAHGOUB SULIMAN MOHAMEDAIN, ELMAR CSAPLOVICS, MOHAMMED H. MOHAMMED:
Model for Estimation of Acacia Senegal Volume from Ndvi
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MICHAEL PRöPPER, THOMAS FALK, CLEVER MAPAURE, MANFRED HINZ, MICHAEL KIRK:
New Consumer Markets, Culture and Polycentric Adjustment Processes in Kavango Forest Management
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ERMIAS AYNEKULU, MANFRED DENICH:
Predicting Tree Mortality Patterns Using NDVI of Aster Imagery in the Dry Afromontane Forests, Northern Ethiopia
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MUNEER ELYAS SIDDIG ELTAHIR, TARIG ELSHEIKH MAHMOUD:
Assessment of Woody Species Diversity in Elain Reserved Forest, North Kordofan State- Sudan
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JULIANE BLUM:
A Study about the Use of Forest in the Bufferzone of Limpopo National Park, Mozambique
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NATHALIE SOETHE, AURISTELA CONSERVA, HELDER QUEIROZ, JüRGEN KERN, JOCHEN SCHöNGART:
Small Scale Reforestation of Five Native Timber Species in a Nutrient Rich Várzea of Central Amazon
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MELVIN LIPPE, GERHARD LANGENBERGER, KONRAD MARTIN, JOACHIM SAUERBORN:
Habitat and Regeneration Analysis of two Indigenous Tree Species to Combat Deforestation on Leyte Island, Philippines
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Non-timber forest products and agroforestry

Chair: Michael Köhl, University of Hamburg, Center for Forestry, Germany

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KOBRAT CHOTRUANGPRASERT, TINA BEUCHELT, MANFRED ZELLER:
The Benefit of Fair trade Coffee to Karen Coffee Farmers Living in National Parks in Northern Thailand
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BJöRN TODT, RONALD F. KüHNE, GERHARD GEROLD:
Evaluation of Soil Fertility in Monoculture and Succesional Agroforestry Land Use Systems for Citrus Sinensis, in Alto Beni, Bolivia
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RENATA SAIZAKI, CHARLES PALMER, STEFANIE ENGEL:
Forest payments schemes as real options to mitigate climate change
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ASAF LESHEM, PATRICK GRöTZ, LIXIA TANG, THOMAS AENIS, UWE JENS NAGEL:
Tea-Walnut Intercropping in Xishuangbanna, China: A Coevolutionary Analysis
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SUNNY WINUJIWATI HOTMARISI REETZ:
The Dynamics of Cacao Agroforestry in the Margins of Protected Forest Areas
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OPEYEMI ANTHONY AMUSAN, OLUSOLA ADUKE AMUSAN, PHILIP OGUNTUNDE:
Quality Deterioration and the Role of Rehabilitation of Cacao Production Chain in Nigeria
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ANDREAS NENNINGER, HANY EL KATEB, MASRESHA FETENE, REINHARD MOSANDL:
Silviculture Contributions Towards Sustainable Management of Plantation Forests in the Highlands of Ethiopia
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IDRIS MUSA ADAM, JENS GEBAUER, KAMAL E. M. FADL:
Effects of Tapping Tools and Tapping Dates on Gum Yield of Acacia polyacantha subsp. campylacantha in South Kordofan, Sudan
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KATHRIN STENCHLY, YANN CLOUGH, TEJA TSCHARNTKE:
Spider Web Density in Indonesian Cacao Agroforestry in Relation to Habitat Variables at Three Different Spatial Scales: (i) Tree (ii) Plot and (iii) Landscape
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MOHAMMED H. MOHAMMED, H. RöHLE:
Effect of Tree Density and Tapping Techniques on the Productivity of Gum Talha from Acacia seyal var. seyal in South Kordofan, Sudan
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KHIN MAUNG SINT, FRANTISEK HAPLA, CHO CHO MYINT:
Does Plantation Teak Produce Comparable Quality as Naturally Grown Teak?
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MALTE G. ROEMER, MARTIN HEGELE, PHAM THI HUONG, JENS WüNSCHE:
Microclimatic Effects on Premature Fruit Drop of Mango in Northern Viet Nam
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SAKINA ELSHIBLI, HELENA KORPELAINEN:
Genetic Diversity and Differentiation of Date Palms (Phoenix Dactylifera L.) in Sudan
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SAKINA ELSHIBLI, ELSHIBLI ELSHIBLI, HELENA KORPELAINEN:
Date Palm (Phoenix Dactylifera L.) Plants under Water Stress: Maximisation of Co2 Supply Function and Ecotype-specific Response
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PETER LADERACH, THOMAS OBERTHUR, HUVER POSADA SUAREZ, LAURE COLLET, LUIS FERNANDO SAMPER:
Cause and Effect Relationships Between Product Quality and Environment as Prerequisite for Denomination of Origin Labels in Coffee
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OLUYEDE C. AJAYI, FESTUS K. AKINNIFESI, GUDENTA SILESHI, SEBASTIAN CHAKEREDZA:
Collective Action for Promoting Sustainable Land Management Systems: An Agroforestry Case in Zambia
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JANA JUHRBANDT, YANN CLOUGH, JAN BARKMANN, XENIA VAN EDIG, STEFAN SCHWARZE, THOMAS DUWE, GERHARD GEROLD:
Drivers and Impacts of Intensification in Smallholder Cacao Agroforestry in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
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THOMAS DUWE, JANA JUHRBANDT, GERHARD GEROLD:
Evaluation of Soil Fertility on Cacao Plantations in Central Sulawesi
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13 Posters

Forests and livelihoods

Chair: Michael Köhl, University of Hamburg, Center for Forestry, Germany

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Oral Presentations

DEV RAJ GAUTAM, NETRA BHANDARI:
Community Forest Management in Nepal for Achieving Millennium Development Goals
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BARBARA DARR, JüRGEN PRETZSCH:
Forest User Perceptions of Today's Forests in Western Kenya
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STEFANIE VON SCHELIHA, HERBERT CHRIST:
Practical Work in Forest Development Cooperation - Bridging Practice with Theory
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JES WEIGELT:
Power Play – Not a Quest for Mutual Benefit! Creating the Conditions for Communal Forest Governance in the Brazilian Amazon, Pará
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THOMAS KUTTER, SUNIL NAUTIYAL, HARALD KAECHELE:
Conserving the Forests of the Indian Himalayan: A Comparison of Four Conservation Regimes
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CHRISTINE BUCHMANN, SARAH PREHSLER, ANNA HARTL, CHRISTIAN REINHARD VOGL:
To Plant or Not to Plant? - Cultural Reasons and Barriers for Adoptive Transplantation of Wild Fruit Trees in West Africa
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ABRHAM ABIYU-HAILU, GEORG GRATZER:
Native Woody Plant Community Organisations around Farms and their Role to Improve Diversity of Trees on Farms: The Case of North West Ethiopia
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MAZEN ALKHATEEB, RASHA FARAJ, HERMANN BOLAND:
The Role of the Olive Co-operative in Enhancing Farmers' Income and Olive Production in Salamieh, Syria
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KALYAN GAULI, MICHAEL HAUSER:
Factors Influencing Institutional Arrangements for Effective Management of Non-timber Forest Products in Community Forest User Groups of Nepal
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SONY BARAL, HARALD VACIK, WALTER SEKOT:
Does Community Forestry Contribute to Poverty Reduction? an Evidence from Nepal
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HAI NGUYEN TIEN, HOLM UIBRIG:
Interrelation Between Customary Forest Use by Hmong People and Governmental Forest Project in Viet Nam
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CHO ACHU CHRISTOPHER:
Sustainable Cocoa Production in Southern Cameroon: Potentials and Constraints of Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
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NAZMUS SADATH, RAIKIBUR RAHMAN, AZIZUR RAHMAN:
Study on Attitude Difference among the Indigenous Groups and Settlers on Forest and Forest Conservation in Bangladeshi Hill Tracts
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MERCELYNE KHALUMBA, KARIN HOLM-MüLLER, TOBIAS WüNSCHER:
Auctions of Forest User Rights and Conservation Performance Payment Schemes of Non-timber Forest Products of Kakamega Forest, Kenya
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SWETA KHANAL, ANJA FAßE, ULRIKE GROTE, DIETER MARTIN HOERMANN:
Promoting Quality in the Value Chain: The Case of Tea from Nepal
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RAJENDRA K. C., AASHA KHATTRI, LAXMI K. C., PUSHPA KHATTRI:
Can Community Forestry Survive in Restructuring New Nepal?
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AHMAD MARYUDI, ROSAN RAJ DEVKOTA, CARSTEN SCHUSSER, MANJOLA SALLA, MAX KROTT:
Assessing the Contribution of Community Forestry to Rural Development: A Comparative Study of Africa, Asia and Europe
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Institutions and macro-economics

Poverty, innovations and knowledge

Chair: Pay Drechsel, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Water Quality, Health and Environment, Sri Lanka

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Oral Presentations

THI TUYET VAN DINH, NAZAIRE HOUSSOU, MANFRED ZELLER:
Development of Absolute Expenditure Poverty Indicators in Northern Vietnam.
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TIL FEIKE, QING CHEN, SIMONE GRäFF-HöNNINGER, WILHELM CLAUPEIN:
Influence of Policy Measures and Economic Growth on Intercropping Systems in China
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SABINE LIEBENEHM, HIPPOLYTE AFFOGNON, HERMANN WAIBEL:
Economic Impact of Livestock Research on Farmers' Knowledge and Productivity – the Case of Trypanosomosis in West Africa
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SHARAVARI KULKARNI, HARALD GRETHE:
Does Contract Farming Benefit Farming Community?: A Comparative Study of Contract and non-Contract Farmers in India
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Biofuel and (international) trade

Chair: Pia Parolin, University of Hamburg, Plant Systematics, Germany

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DIRK RöTTGERS, ANJA FAßE, ULRIKE GROTE:
Analysing the EU Canola Oil Trade with Developing Countries: A Gravity Model Approach
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PATRICK GRöTZ, LIXIA TANG, THOMAS AENIS, UWE JENS NAGEL, VOLKER HOFFMANN:
Rubber Contra Biodiversity? An Analysis of the Adoption Processes of Selected Innovations in Xishuangbanna, Southwest-China
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DJOKO NOUMODJE PATRICE:
Food Miles and Agrofood Trade Between Africa and European Union
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AMIKUZUNO JOSEPH:
Spatial Price Transmission and Market Integration Between Fresh Tomato Markets in Ghana: Any Benefits from Trade Liberalisation?
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NINA LANGEN, CAROLA GREBITUS, MONIKA HARTMANN:
Do German Consumers Differentiate Between Fair Trade Certification and Charitable Giving?
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Innovations and the environment

Chair: Michael Kirk, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Institute for Co-operation in Developing Countries, Germany

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DIEMUTH PEMSL, LIFENG WU, HERMANN WAIBEL:
Agricultural Biotechnology and Sustainability: Evidence from Shandong Province, China
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JORGE GUTIERREZ:
Trade-offs Between Agricultural Practices and Environmental Quality: an Econometric Assessment of Chemicals Use and Wildlife Loss
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GOPAL DATT BHATTA, WERNER DOPPLER, KRISHNA BAHADUR K. C.:
Consumers' Attitude, Willingness to Pay and Preference Towards Organic Vegetables in Kathmandu Valley: A Conjoint Approach
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BERHANU GEBREMEDHIN, GEBREMEDHIN WOLDEWAHID, YIGZAW DESSALEGN:
Linking Natural Resource Management with Market Oriented Commodity Development: Case Studies from the Ethiopian Highlands
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ALWIN KEIL, CAMILLE SAINT-MACARY, MANFRED ZELLER:
Maize Boom in the Uplands of Northern Viet Nam: Economic Importance and Environmental Implications
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Ecosystem service payments

Chair: Franz Heidhues, University of Hohenheim, Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Social Siences in the Tropics and Subtropics, Germany

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Oral Presentations

TINOUSH JAMALI JAGHDANI, BERNHARD BRüMMER, JAN BARKMANN:
Comparison of Methods to Economically Valuate Irrigation Water in the Qazvin Irrigation Network (Iran)
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JULIUS MAITHYA, TOBIAS WüNSCHER:
Contribution Behaviour Towards Collective Management of Common Pool Forest Resources in Western Kenya
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ANDY JARVIS, RUBEN ESTRADA, NATALIA URIBE, PETER LADERACH, MARK MULLIGAN, LEONARDO SAENZ, PATRICIA TELLEZ, ALEJANDRO CALVACHE:
Hydrological and Economic Modelling for Setting up Payment Schemes for Environmental Services in Latin America: A Comparison of Models and Approaches
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DOMINIC TAKU TASSA, MYLES OELOFSE:
Challenges in Integrating Biodiversity Conservation and Local Development: A Case Study of Ang Trapeang Thmor (ATT) Protected Area in North West Cambodia
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RENATA SAIZAKI, TOBIAS WüNSCHER:
Designing Conservation Auctions in Developing Countries: Insights from Field Experiments in Kakamega, Kenya
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Financing and marketing

Chair: Marco Hartmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Development Planning and Project Management, Germany

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LARS BERGER, ELISE GRUBITS, KURT-JOHANNES PETERS:
The Efficiency of Cooperatives and their Influence on Poverty Alleviation: An Institutional Analysis in the Ethiopian Dairy Sector
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VINZENZ B.M. BAUER, STEFAN BURKART, STEFFEN ABELE, ESTHER KAHANGI, THOMAS DUBOIS, DANNY COYNE, VOLKER HOFFMANN:
Financing, Handling, Hardening and Marketing of Tissue Culture-Derived Planting Material through Nurseries: The Case of Banana in Kenya, Uganda and Burundi
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NAPOLEON MOLINA:
Small Agricultural Producers Linked to High Value Agri-Food Markets: The Experience of Asian Vegetable Production in Honduras
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B.M. AKARSHA, MARCO HARTMANN:
Emerging Challenges for Farm Labour in the Indian Coffee Sector
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GUSTAVO HENRIQUE DE SOUZA DíAS:
Governance Relations on the Global Value Chain of Northeast Brazil´s Grapes and Mangoes: The Influence of Private Standards on Local Bargaining Competencies
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GESINE HäNSEL, MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM:
Economic Instruments to Promote Carbon Sequestration in Silvopastoral Systems in Central America: When and How Much Should Be Paid?
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SIMON IKENOUE, ANNA TREYDTE:
The Effect of Land Reform Policy on Land Use Pattern Change and Environment in Post-Apartheid South Africa
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NAZMUL HOQUE:
Assessing the Standards of Organic Farming in Bangladesh: A Comparison with European Standards
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MORITZ RECKLING, SARA PREIßEL:
Application of Internal Control Systems in Organic Export Companies – two Case Studies from Uganda
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CHO ACHU CHRISTOPHER:
Fish Marketing in Cameroon: Case Study of Yaoundé Markets
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TIM K. LOOS, J. NEPOMUK WAHL, MANFRED ZELLER:
Jatropha Seed Production in Tanzania - A Chance for Smallholder Farmers?
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REIN VAN DER HOEK, MARLENE POSAS, HERALDO CRUZ, PETER LENTES, AXEL SCHMIDT, MICHAEL PETERS:
Emprasefor: a Case of Resilient Farmer-led Forage Seed Enterpreneurship in Central-america
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RAUF MAILOV, AYNURA ASLANOVA, ZAUR ALIYEV:
The Role of Micro-Financing in Poverty Reduction in Azerbaijan
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MARTIN GRASS, TIM K. LOOS, MANFRED ZELLER:
Comparison of two Jatropha Production Approaches Targeting Bioenergy Supply in Tanzania and Madagascar
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KHADIJAT AZEEZ, MANFRED ZELLER, TINA BEUCHELT:
Foreign Direct Investment in Agricultural Production: Win-Win Deals or Neocolonialism
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RISHI RAM KATTEL, PRADYOT JENA, ULRIKE GROTE:
The Impact of Coffee Production on Nepali Smallholders in the Value Chains
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INNOCENT ONAH:
Global Risk in Food Prices and Countervailing Measures: Analyzing Determinants for Differences in World-wide Policy Response
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BERNARD PHILIBERT AGBO, HORST OEBEL, GéOFFROY GANTOLI:
Upgrading of the African Cashew Subsector: Synopsis of the Strategy of Value Chain Promotion in Benin
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Research development and tenure

Chair: Paul Van Mele, Africa Rice Center (WARDA), Learning and Innovation Systems Programme, Benin

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VISHAL KUMAR DHIMAN, MARCO HARTMANN:
Contract Farming as a Concept for Rural Agricultural Development. Evidence from Potato Seed Culture in Punjab, Northern-India
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PAY DRECHSEL, HANNA KARG, BERNARD KERAITA:
Facilitating Adoption of Best Practices – More Work for Research than Extension!
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S. AYOO, S. BALZEREIT, C. ETZKORN, A.B.M. FIROZ, HARTMUT GAESE, FREDERIKE NAEGELI, UDO NEHREN, CLAUDIA RAEDIG, LARS RIBBE, A.E.A. ROBAYO CASTANEDA, JACKSON ROEHRIG, SI THU TUN, JUAN CARLOS TORRICO:
Development of a Conceptual Model for the Dinario Project, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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JAQUELINE GARCIA - YI:
Coca Temptation: Why Do Some Farmers Grow it and Other Do Not? the Case Study of an Indigenous Community in Peru
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EKO NUGROHO:
Social and Economical Improvement through the Implementation of Land Tenure in Rural Java, Indonesia
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SEBASTIAN KOCH, JAN BARKMANN, SUSANNE BöGEHOLZ:
Indonesian Biology Teacher and Agronomy Students' Perception of Commons Dilemmas
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MASTEWAL YAMI DEGEFA, CHRISTIAN REINHARD VOGL, MICHAEL HAUSER:
Comparing the Effectiveness of Informal and Formal Institutions in Sustainable Common Pool Resources Management in Sub-Saharan Africa
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LARS BERGER, PATRICK GRöTZ, LIXIA TANG, THOMAS AENIS, UWE JENS NAGEL:
Land Property Rights and their Influence on Innovations in Rural Societies in South West China
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PAUL VAN MELE, JULIAN DAVID REECE:
The Changing Roles of International Agricultural Research Centers
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ISRAEL ALEXANDRE PEREIRA FILHO, HéLIO TEIXEIRA PRATES, NADJA MOURA PIRES, ALCIDO ELENOR WANDER, JOSE ALOISIO ALVES MOREIRA, JOSE CARLOS CRUZ:
Weed Control in Maize Crop Using Leucaena (Leucaena leucocephala)
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RHODA BIRECH, ERIC BETT, BERNHARD FREYER, DANIEL KYALO:
Strengthening the MDG Progress through Collaborative Research Efforts: Some Lessons from Oat Project in East Mau Catchment, Kenya
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LOKENDRA KARKI, SURESH DHAKAL:
Land Ownership in Nepal: Are Lower Castes Excluded?
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SIMONE KATHRIN KRIESEMER, MADAN L. CHADHA, KATINKA WEINBERGER:
Extension Messages on Pesticide Use: A Precondition for Safe Vegetable Production in Jharkhand, India
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NORBERT NIEDERHAUSER, PETER LADERACH, MARTIN WIESINGER, ANDREAS IDL:
Long Term Benefit of Research for Development Projects through Sustainable Information Management
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DIANA KURZWEG:
Failure and Success of Tropical Research and Development Practices Using the Example of Pacora, Nicaragua
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ANTHONY GIKANDI MURIITHI, ERIC BETT, SARAH AYERI OGALLEH:
Information Technology for Agriculture and Rural Development in Africa: Experiences from Kenya
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ULI KLEINWECHTER:
Rural-Urban Migration in China: Lessons from an Empirically Based Framework of Positive Impacts on Rural Development
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EMEKA UMEJESI, CHRISTIAN LIPPERT:
Certification as a Means for Sustainable Biofuel Production? - Potentials and Constraints
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Food security, nutrition and health

Chair: Gudrun B. Keding, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Institute of Nutritional Sciences, International Nutrition, Germany

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MUNA ALI ABDALLA, SAAD ABDEL RAHMAN SULIEMAN:
Feeding Habits of Children under Age of Five in Rural Area of Sudan: An Overview about the Nutritional Situation
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SUSANA AKROFI, PAUL STRUIK, LISA LEIMAR PRICE:
HIV/AIDS Impacts on Commercial-orientation in Home Garden Cultivation: A Case Study of Rural Ghana
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STANLEY KARANJA NG'ANG'A, JEANNETTE VAN DE STEEG, AN NOTENBAERT, MARIO HERRERO:
Household Livelihood Strategies and Non-marketed Benefits Dependence in Gaza Province of Mozambique
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FAISAL ABBAS:
Health Development Nexus: Macroeconomic Estimation Using Developing Country Data
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ADETUNJI KEHINDE, SIYANBOLA OMITOYIN, O. PETER AGBOLA, DIRAN OLAWALE AWOTIDE, OLUWABUNMI OKE:
Towards Boosting Aquaculture Production: an Identification of Key Determinants of Cat Fish (Clarias gariepinus) Consumption in Ibadan Metropolois of Oyo State, Nigeria
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FOLUSHO UGWU, SUNDAY UGWU:
Nutritive Quality of Blends of Sprouted Corn with Germinated, Fermented and Dried Jackbean (Canavalia ensiformis) Mucuna Vulgaris, Pigeon Pea (Cajanus cajan) and 'akidi'
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EZEKIEL TEJUMOLA OTUNOLA, ELIZABETH OLUWASEUN SUNNY-ROBERTS, J.A. ADEJUYITAN, A.O. FAMAKINWA:
Effects of the Addition of Partially Defatted Peanut Paste on Some Properties of 'kokoro', a Popular Nigerian Maize Snack
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JOACHIM OFFENBERG, DECHA WIWATWITAYA:
Weaver Ants Convert Pest Insects into Food – Prospects for the Rural Poor
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FERNANDA DIAS BARTOLOMEU ABADIO FINCO, ESTEPHANY JEANNY K. SILVA, LUCIMARA MENDES DE AGUIAR, IGOR GALVãO SILVA:
Including the Culture Component of Food and Nutrition Security to the School Feeding Program in Brazil
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AFRAH MOHAMMED, HASSAN MUDAWI, MUDAWI ELOBEID, ABDALLA ELMUBARAK:
Ellimination of a Precipitated Layer in a Concentrated Baobab (Adansoia digitata L.) Squash
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WAHYUDI DAVID, JEFFRY LOHO, ANGELIKA PLOEGER:
Indonesian Food Security Assessment
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7 Posters

Engineering

Chair: Joachim Mueller, University of Hohenheim, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Tropics and Subtropics Group, Germany

Lead paper

Oral Presentations

ANDREA DüHRKOOP, CHRISTIAN DEDE, FOKKE SAATHOFF:
Material Investigations for an Efficient Auto Regulative Subsurface Irrigation Method with Permeable Pipes
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ANJUM MUNIR, OLIVER HENSEL:
Biomass Energy Utilisation in Solar Distillation System for Essential Oil Extraction from Herbs
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VU THANH HAI, PHAM THI HUONG, PITTAYA SRUAMSIRI, MARTIN HEGELE, JENS WüNSCHE:
Effect of Ethrel Postharvest Applications on Ripening of 'tron' and 'hoi' Mangoes (Mangifera Indica L.)
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HANAN MOHAMED ELHADI, ADAM. E. AHMED:
Interlinks Between Improved Cooking Stoves, Forests Conservation and Poverty Alleviation: Experience of North Kordofan-Sudan
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SHKELQIM KARAJ, JOACHIM MUELLER:
Clarification of Jatropha curcas Oil for Direct Use in Plant Oil Stoves
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DIMITRIOS ARGYROPOULOS, JOAQUíN MIGUEL CASTRO MONTOYA, CLAUDIA MAURER, JOACHIM MUELLER:
Convective Hot-air Drying of Banana in Uganda
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MUHAMMAD TAHIR KHAN, CLAUDIA MAURER, DIMITRIOS ARGYROPOULOS, MATHIEU BRULE, JOACHIM MUELLER:
Anaerobic Digestion of Banana Waste, a Potential Source of Energy in Uganda
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NATTASAK KRITTIGAMAS, KANNIKA BUALOY, YAOWALUK CHANBANG, VICHIAN HENGSAWAD, THERDCHAI VEARASILP, WOLFGANG LUECKE:
Using Radio Frequency to Control Red Flour Beetle (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in Feed
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AHMED ADAM ELNOUR, MOHAMED E. OSMAN ELSAYED, K.E.A. ISHAG, ABDALLA ABDELSAMAD ABDALLA:
Physicochemical Properties of Acacia polyacantha Gum
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CAROLINA BILIBIO, OLIVER HENSEL, JACINTO ASSUNCAO CARVALHO, MINELLA MARTINS, FáTIMA REZENDE, WELLINGTON ALVES DE FREITAS:
Optimising Water Use in Irrigated Rapeseed Areas in Brazil
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IMAN RAJ CHONGTHAM, ANDREAS DE NEERGAARD, DIDIER PILLOT:
Farmers' Strategies and the Constraints of Organic Fruit Drying in the Kayunga District of Uganda
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NINA KIRKEGAARD, ANDREAS DE NEERGAARD:
Opportunities and Constraints at the Processing Level in the Fruit Drying Industry in Uganda
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7 Posters

Participation

Chair: Brigitte Kaufmann, German Institute of Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL), Germany

Lead paper

Oral Presentations

EKAETE UDONG, AAD VAN TILBURG, ANKE NIEHOF:
Strategies of Women Fish Traders in Ibaka, Niger Delta, Nigeria, in Coping with Cultural and Institutional Constraints
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KATINKA WEINBERGER, MARGARET PASQUINI, PHYLLIS KASAMBULA, MARY ABUKUSTA ONYANGO:
Women's Involvement Along the Supply Chain for African Indigenous Vegetables in Uganda and Kenya
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PAMELA PALI, NJUKI JEMIMAH:
Empowering Smallholder Producers in Integrated Agricultural Research for Development in Lake Kivu
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ATAHARUL HUQ CHOWDHURY, PAUL VAN MELE, MICHAEL HAUSER:
Contribution of Farmer-to-Farmer Video to Food Security: Evidence from Bangladesh
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ANNA KATHARINA WEBER, MARCO HARTMANN, DJEIMY KUSNAMAN:
Agricultural Innovations towards Smallholder Participation: Evidence from Central Java, Indonesia
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KALPANA GIRI:
Why Include Women in Community Forestry: To Include Differences or to Make a Difference?
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JüRGEN ANTHOFER, REMI KAHANE:
The Global Horticulture Initiative as a Common Innovation Platform for Horticultural Research, Development Actors and the Private Sector
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MARGUERITE PAUS:
Role of the Facilitator in the Emergence and Scaling up of a Geographical Indication Initiative
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BINH NGUYEN THANH, MARCO HARTMANN:
Agricultural Extension in the Mekong Delta of Viet Nam: The Case of Integrated Agriculture-Aquaculture
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JANA MAZANCOVA, JIRI HEJKRLIK:
Changes in Agricultural Development as Perceived by Local Farmers in the Bie Province, Angola
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IVEN SCHAD, REGINA RößLER, ANDREAS NEEF, MARIANNA SIEGMUND-SCHULTZE, ANNE VALLE ZáRATE, VOLKER HOFFMANN:
Potential and Constraints in Institutionalizing Group-based Participatory Extension in Northwest Viet Nam
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KARIN GAESING, UTE RIETDORF, ANDREW KIPLAGAT:
Social Science as a Catalyst for Participatory Planning in Natural Resource Management: The Case of Kakamega District in Western Kenya
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ERIC BETT, DANIEL KYALO, BERNHARD FREYER, JOB LAGAT:
Barriers to the Adoption of Non-certified Organic Agriculture by Smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from East Mau Catchment, Nakuru, Kenya
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8 Posters

Micro-economics

Microeconomics: methodological approaches

Chair: Hermann Waibel, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute of Development and Agricultural Economics, Germany

Lead paper

Oral Presentations

ROMY DAS, SIEGFRIED BAUER:
Analyzing Soil Nutrient Balance in Hills of Nepal: Do Socio-economic Factors Matter for Sustainable Land Use?
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BERND HARDEWEG, ANDREAS WAGENER, HERMANN WAIBEL:
Towards Comparative and Aggregate Vulnerability: Analysis of Welfare Distributions in Rural Areas in Thailand and Viet Nam
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ANDREAS ROTH, REINER DOLUSCHITZ:
A Multi-agent Model Simulating Agronomic Income Sources in the North China Plain
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SUWANNA PRANEETVATAKUL, TUNG PHUNG DUC, HERMANN WAIBEL:
The Role of Shocks on the Diversification of Rural Households: A Comparison between Thailand and Viet Nam
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JULIA KLOOS:
A Latent Class Model for Basic Water Services in the Middle Olifants sub-Basin of South Africa
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MOHAMMAD GHORBANI, HOOMAN MANSOORI:
Factors Affecting Loan Repayment Performance of Farmers in Khorasan-Razavi Province of Iran
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YOTSAWIN KUKEAWKASEM, KRISHNA REDDY KAKUMANU, SIEGFRIED BAUER:
Risk Management Strategies in Agriculture: A Case Study of Swine Producers in Thailand
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TINA BEUCHELT, MANFRED ZELLER:
Profitability of Certified Small-scale Coffee Production Systems in Nicaragua
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IGBEKELE AJIBEFUN:
Social and Economic Implications of Land Use Change on Agricultural Production and Food Security among Smallholder Farm Families in Nigeria
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FERNANDO RODRIGUEZ, SOPHIE GRAEFE, ANDRES GIRALDO, DOMINIQUE DUFOUR, ALONSO GONZALEZ:
Food Security, Income Generation and Natural Resource Management of Afro-colombian Communities from the Colombian Pacific Region through Market Access: The Case of Peach Palm (Bactris gasipaes K.)
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BALGAH ROLAND AZIBO, GERTRUD BUCHENRIEDER:
Economics of Nonprofit Organisation: Case Study of Rural Extension in Cameroon
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BALGAH ROLAND AZIBO, GERTRUD BUCHENRIEDER:
Social Risk Management of Vulnerable Livelihoods – the Example of Surviving Households of the Lake Nyos Natural Disaster in Cameroon
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LEVISON CHIWAULA, RUDOLF WITT, HERMANN WAIBEL, DIEMUTH PEMSL, CHRISTOPHE BéNé:
Livelihood Choices, Diversification and Poverty in Fisheries Dependent Communities in Cameroon and Nigeria
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DOREEN BUERGELT, MATTHIAS VON OPPEN:
Reveal Quality and Price Determinants of an Orphan Crop in India and Nepal
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BERND HARDEWEG, LUKAS MENKHOFF, HERMANN WAIBEL:
Experimentally Validated Survey Evidence on Individual Risk Attitudes in Rural Thailand
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RAGA ELZAKI, SHAMS ELDEIN H. AHMED, HANAN MOHAMED ELHADI:
Poverty Determinants in the Rainfed Traditional Farms in Western Sudan: Rural Kordofan State
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PILIRANI PANKOMERA, NAZAIRE HOUSSOU, MANFRED ZELLER:
Household Food Security in Malawi: Measurements, Determinants, and Policy Review
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DOROTHY TEMBO, FRANKLIN SIMTOWE:
Does Market Accessibility Affect Household Food Security? Evidence from Malawi
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XENIA VAN EDIG, STEFAN SCHWARZE:
Short-term Poverty Dynamics of Rural Households in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia – Evidence from Panel Data of 2005 and 2007
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GERALDO DA SILVA E SOUZA, ALCIDO ELENOR WANDER, ELIANE GONçALVES GOMES, ROSAURA GAZZOLA:
Using Stochastic Frontier Approach to Assess Technical Efficiency in Brazilian Agriculture
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SADIKA HAQUE, SIEGFRIED BAUER:
Assessing the Determinants of Collective Action in Common Property Brackish Water Management for Shrimp Farming in Bangladesh
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16 Posters

Microeconomics: applied approaches

Chair: Bernd Hardeweg, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute of Development and Agricultural Economics, Germany

Lead paper

Oral Presentations

KRISTIN MAREN SETZER, TINA BEUCHELT, MANFRED ZELLER:
Smallholder Cooperatives in the Coffee Value Chain: What Are the Requirements for Participation?
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CHRISTIAN BöBER, MANFRED ZELLER:
Overuse of Agricultural Inputs and Awareness of Environmental Consequences – the Case of Hebei Province, Pr of China
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FRANKLIN SIMTOWE, BEKELE SHIFERAW, SOLOMON ASFAW:
Determinants of Agricultural Technology Adoption under Incomplete Population-Exposure in Eastern and Southern Africa: The Case of Pigeonpea in Malawi
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AMINOU AROUNA, STEPHAN DABBERT:
Estimating Water Use Efficiency in Agricultural Production: A Case Study of Dry Season Vegetable Production by Resource-poor Farmers in Benin
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SONGPORNE TONGRUKSAWATTANA, ERICH SCHMIDT, HERMANN WAIBEL:
Farm Household Adjustment to Price Shocks in Thailand
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IBRAHIM ALABDULLAH, ERNST-AUGUST NUPPENAU:
Comparative Advantages of Cotton Production with Respect to Irrigation Systems in Syria
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GIUSEPPE FEOLA, CLAUDIA R. BINDER:
Frame Conditions for a More Sustainable Pesticide Use: Evidence from Smallholding Potato Producers in Boyacá, Colombia
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SOPHIE GRAEFE, LUIS ARMANDO MUñOZ, HORTENSIA SOLIS, ROBERTO MATA, ALONSO GONZALEZ:
Environmental and Economic Assessment of Bioethanol Production from Musa Spp. Residues
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MANJUNATHA ARAHALLI VENKATARONAPPA, STIJN SPEELMAN, CHANDRAKANTH MYSORE, GUIDO VAN HUYLENBROECK:
Efficiency of Water Use in Groundwater Markets The case of Peninsular India
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PANCHIT PORNPRATANSOMBAT, SUPAPORN THAIPAKDEE:
Obstacles Effecting the Implementation of Organic Vegetables in Thailand
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ASTRID FAUST:
Value Chain Development of Exotic Fresh Fruits in South-East Asia
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ABDOLMAJID MAHDAVI DAMGHANI, HOUMAN LIAGHATI, JAFAR KAMBOUZIA, MOHAMMAD KHHORVASH, KOROUS KHOSHBAKHT, REZA MIRZAEI TALARPOSHTI:
Socio-economic Characteristics of Rice-based Agroecosystems in Mazandaran, North of Iran
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OGHAIKI ASAAH NDAMBI, MARTIN HAGEMANN, OTHMAN ALQAISI, MOHAMMAD MOHI UDDIN, TORSTEN HEMME, MST. NADIRA SULTANA:
A Holistic Approach for Analysing Sustainability in Dairy Farms Worldwide
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MARCUS VINíCIUS ALVES FINCO, WERNER DOPPLER:
Small Scale Jatropha Curcas and Ricinus communis Production: A Living Standard Approach in the Brazilian Legal Amazon Region
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GOPAL DATT BHATTA, WERNER DOPPLER, KRISHNA BAHADUR K. C.:
Spatial Differentiation in Farming Practices and their Impact on Rural Livelihood: A Case from Nepal
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DAVID OSEGUERA-MONTIEL, NICOLA MARIA KEILBACH-BAER:
Hopes and Threats for Successful Rural Livelihoods: The Role of Social Capital among Small-scale Goat Farmers in Central Mexico
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EDWARD NKETIAH-AMPONSAH, PATRICIA WOEDEM AIDAM, BERNARDIN SENADZA:
Socio-economic Determinants of Sources of Drinking Water: Some Insight from Ghana
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RAID AL BAQAIN, ANNE VALLE ZáRATE:
Economic Success of Bedouin Sheep Production under Different Resource Endowment in Jordan and the Palestinian Territories
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Approach of GTZ

Chair: Albert Engel, German Agency for Technical Cooperation - GTZ, Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Germany

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Oral Presentations

STEPHAN KRALL:
Sustainable Management of Resources in Agriculture – A New GTZ Program
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MATTHIAS BICKEL:
The Case of African Cashews & the African Cashew Initiative
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THOMAS BREUER, DOMINIK FORTENBACHER:
Sustainability of Renewable Resources in Developing Countries
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ALEXANDER SCHöNING:
Valuelinks: Engaging the Private Sector in Development
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Summer Schools

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STEFAN BIENEFELD:
Enhancing Networking and Partnerships for Biodiversity
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WERNER DOPPLER:
Farming and Rural Systems Economics and Biodiversity in the Tropics
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KERSTIN WYDRA:
DAAD-International Alumni Summer School on "conservation and Management of Biodiversity in the Tropics"
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JENS GEBAUER, CHRISTINA RIPKEN, ANDREAS BUERKERT:
Recording, Monitoring and Managing (Agro-)Biodiversity – Implementation Oriented Research
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