Tropentag 2025:

Reconciling land system changes with planetary health

September 10 - 12, 2025
organised by
University of Bonn / ZEF, Bonn, Germany

Photocontest 'lets-plant'

Simon Lotz This year the photo competition by Let's Plant e.V. (https://www.lets-plant.org/) takes place in cooperation with the Tropentag 2025 conference and the Crop Trust (https://www.croptrust.org/). The topics of this years international photo competition are on the core concerns of the organisers:
  1. To upgrade / improve degraded land in the sense of holistic landscape management.
  2. To celebrate the sustainable production and use of neglected and underutilised crops (e.g. opportunity crops) in traditional diets.
The idea of the photo competition is to find pictures and photo reports on the topic that are as expressive as possible. In this way, interesting, promising and emotionally appealing approaches should be collected and made known.
As in the previous years, the two categories of the competition are:
  1. Best single picture
  2. Best photo story (max 10 photos)

For submitting your contributions, the following submission form has to be used and sent alongside the photos to fotocontest@lets-plant.org.

Submission form

The submission form contains some further guidelines which include the provision of an informative title for the photo (story) and a small (scientific) background story on the photos. A jury made up of members of Let’s Plant, the organisers of Tropentag 2025 and, if applicable, expert sponsors, will review the entries and prepare a ranking list. Depending on the number of entries, one, two or three winners will be selected and exhibited on the homepages of the Tropentag 2025, the Let's Plant e.V. and the Crop Trust, and at other occasions such as physical and virtual photo exhibitions or for other non-commercial purposes. Winners will also receive a small gift. As novelty, Let’s Plant e.V. expresses its willingness to select among all winners – if appropriate proposals are made - a local project linked to the photos, that can be supported with up to 1.500.- Euros over one year. For being eligible for this support, submissions should provide an additional 1-page abstract of an outline of such a project

By submitting, the sender agrees to provide a non-exclusive right to the NGO Let's Plant e.V. to use the pictures and the accompanying texts for non-commercial purposes, in particular for exhibitions in print and online, always acknowledging and mentioning the sender/copyright holder. In cooperation with appropriate sponsors, Let's Plant offers to organise publicly accessible exhibitions of the best placed photos.

Deadline for the submission of your photos is August 8, 2025.

See some of the winner photos of past competitions here: https://www.lets-plant.org/pt-br/node/16#photocontest
Abdullah Thaseem Muhammed Shah   Die-Yacine KA   Aung Zaw Oo.