Tropentag 2025 - programme

• Workshop 1: closed workshop - ATSAF Academy Networking Event 2025
• Workshop 2: Biodiversity and smallholder livelihood in coffee and cocoa production – synergies, trade-offs and potential solutions
• Workshop 3: Hy4Cast – Hybrid modelling leveraging Artificial Intelligence for fine-scale crop yield forecasts
• Workshop 4: Computational Land System Analysis (CoLSA): (Big) Data-driven approaches to support decision-processes in the Anthropocene
• Workshop 5: Assessing malnutrition progress amid global, socio-economic, and agricultural changes in sub-Saharan Africa: Regional and country-level insights
• Workshop 6: Women’s voice and leadership in decision making: challenges and solutions
• Workshop 7: Lessons learnt and Opportunities for international cooperation in sustainable and climate-resilient agriculture: Perspectives from BMLEH international projects in South America, Europe, and Africa
• Workshop 8: Tipping points in social-ecological systems: Challenges and insights across diverse contexts of land management
• Workshop 9: Sustainable solutions for climate-resilient agriculture
• Workshop 10: Diversification of the food chain for food security in Africa
• Workshop 11: Making better photos of research in and on landscapes and agriculture

• Workshop 12: Roots to regions: Tracking agroforestry for scaling up
• Workshop 13: Bridging the gap: strengthening science-policy interfaces in agricultural research
• Workshop 14: Enhancing tropical landscape multifunctionality, resilience, adaptability and health through socio-ecological gains: A knowledge exchange
• Workshop 15: Let’s talk about co-design! Exchange opportunity for researchers working with participatory approaches
• Workshop 16: Strengthening science policy interfaces in light of the UN- Committee on World Food Security (CFS) with a focus on Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment
• Workshop 17: Decolonising knowledge and practice in agricultural research
• Workshop 18: Sustainability analysis of tropical agriculture
• Workshop 19: Novel crops, from biodiversity to the bioeconomy: Opportunities and challenges in value chains and webs from the macaúba palm, an alternative oil crop in Brazil
• Workshop 20: Inclusive and transformative strategies for implementing the African Fertilizer and Soil Health Action Plan
• Workshop 21: Seeking to curb deforestation: Sticks, carrots, and their implications for agri-food and wood product value chains
• Workshop 22: Reconciling equity and sustainability in agricultural water management: Contributions of CGIAR and German Development Cooperation in Africa
• Workshop 23: How to strengthen food value webs for a sustainable agroecological transition – Experiences, opportunities, options, and perspectives
• Workshop 24: Scaling, adoption and dissemination of good agricultural practices and innovations for food systems in Africa
• Workshop 25: Advancing sustainable agricultural value chains through strengthening transdisciplinary skills and cooperation in East African doctoral education
• Workshop 26: Six years researching tipping points in the Southwestern Amazon SES: Are we already there?

Welcome addresses and opening - Moderation: Christian Borgemeister and Mathias Becker, University of Bonn

Keynote speech and discussion

• Dr. Siméon Ehui, Director General and CGIAR Regional Director for Africa

Keynote speeches and discussion

• Dr. Saweda Liverpool-Tasie, Michigan State University (USA)
• Dr. Chris Hoffmann, University of São Paulo, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brasil

• 1c. Biotic stress
• 1d. Animal nutrition
• 2a. Soil health
• 2b. Water quantity and quality
• 3b. Agroforestry
• 4a. Food environment
• 5b. Gender, power, and access: Dynamics in land and food systems
• 6c. Science policy
• 7d. DAAD Alumni seminar I
• two to three online sessions N.N.

• 1b. Crop abiotic stress
• 2c. Amendments & nutrient management
• 3d. Rangelands & forage
• 4b. Sustainable food systems
• 5a. Governance and local livelihoods
• 5d. Bridging farmer innovation and digital co-design
• 6a. Digital innovations
• 6d. Land system changes
• two to three online sessions N.N.

• 1a. Crop management
• 1e. Animal production
• 2d. Climate change adaptation & mitigation
• 3a. Perspectives on agroecology
• 3c. Biodiversity & neglected species
• 4c. Sustainable nutrition security
• 4d. Food quality & processing
• 5c. Social learning and network
• 6b. Development economics
• two to three online sessions N.N.

• Ousmane Badiane, AKADEMIYA2063, Rwanda
• Bernard Vanlauwe, IITA, Kenya