Tropentag 2025:

Reconciling land system changes with planetary health

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


Tropentag 2025 - programme

time zone UTC+2


Tuesday,
09.09.2025
Wednesday,
10.09.2025
Thursday,
11.09.2025
Friday,
12.09.2025


Time
UTC+2

preliminary programme

Tuesday, 09.09.2025

13:30-19:00 Pre-registration of participants -
11:30-14:00 Lunch break - Mensa
timeslot: 14:00-18:00 Pre-conference workshops
15:30-16:00 Tea / coffee break
19:00-22:00 Side event: Fourth Edition of Perspectives on Pastoralism Film Festival at TT25 Theme: Pastoralism at the heart of Nature Conservation and Biodiversity

Wednesday, 10.09.2025

8:00 onwards Registration of participants -
timeslot 09:00-11:30 Pre-conference workshops
10:00-10:30 Tea / coffee break
12:00-13:00 Lunch break - Mensa
  Plenary - Welcome to Tropentag + streaming via the Internet - link will be made available via Whova.
13:00-13:30

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

  • Prof. Dr. Michael Hoch, Rector of University of Bonn
  • Folkard Asch, ATSAF / University of Hohenheim, Germany
13:30-14:00

Keynote speech and discussion

14:00-14:30 Hans H. Ruthenberg Award for Graduates 2025
Dr. Andrea Fadani, Foundation fiat panis Ulm, Germany
14:30-15:15 Justus von Liebig-Award for World Nutrition
Dr. Andrea Fadani, Foundation fiat panis Ulm, Germany
15:15-15:45 Coffee and tea break
15:45-16:45

Keynote speeches and discussion

16:45-17:00 Mobility break
17:00-18:30 Parallel oral thematic sessions I
all sessions will be streamed via the whova platform
   
 
 
 
18:30-22:00
Apéro / Social gathering 19:00-20:00 Meet & Greet: discussion rounds of junior scientists with keynote speakers and stakeholders 19:30-22:00 Mini pastoralist film-festival 19:30 ATSAF e.V. members assembly in Room tbc (hybrid)

Thursday, 11.09.2025

08:30-10:00 Guided poster sessions P1 (parallel poster sessions plus online sessions)
1c. Crop biotic stress
1d. Animal nutrition
2a. Soil health
2b. Water quantity and quality
3b. Agroforestry
4a. Food environments
5b. Gender, power, and access: Dynamics in land and food systems
6a. Digital innovations
7d. I DAAD SDG seminar
online 2b./2d. Online: Water ecology and climate change aspects
online 3c. Online: Biodiversity
online 5c./5d. Online: Integrating social learning and digital onnovation
online 3d./6d. Online: Land use change and grazing systems
10:00-10:30 Coffee and tea break
10:30-12:00 Parallel oral thematic sessions II
all sessions will be streamed via the whova platform
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
12:00-13:30 Lunch break - Mensa and N.N.
13:30-15:00 Parallel oral thematic sessions III
all sessions will be streamed via the whova platform
   
 
 
 
 
 
15:00-15:30 Coffee and tea break
15:30-17:00 Parallel oral thematic sessions IV
all sessions will be streamed via the whova platform
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
17:00-17:15 Mobility break
17:15-18:45 Guided poster sessions P2 (parallel poster sessions plus online sessions)
1b. Crop abiotic stress
2c. Amendments and nutrient management
3d. Rangelands and forage
4b. Sustainable food systems
5a. Governance and local livelihoods
5d. Bridging farmer innovation and digital co-design
6c. Science policy
6d. Land system changes
7d. DAAD SDG seminar II
online 1a. Online: Crop management
online 1d/1e. Online: Livestock management
online 2a. Online: Soil health
online 4a/4b/4c/4d. Online: Food systems and nutrition
online 6a/6b. Online: Innovation economics
19:00-23:00 Conference dinner & party (Poppelsdorfer Mensa)

Friday, 12.09.2025

08:30-10:00 Guided poster sessions P3 (parallel poster sessions plus online poster sessions)
1a. Crop management
1e. Animal production
2d. Climate change adaptation and mitigation
3a. Perspectives on agroecology
3c. Biodiversity and neglected species
4c. Sustainable nutrition security
4d. Food quality and processing
5c. Social learning and network
6b. Development economics
online 1b/1c. Online: Crop (a)biotic stress
online 2c. Online: Amendments and nutrient management
online 3b. Online: Agroforestry
online 5a/5b/6c. Online: Social learning, governance and science policy
10:00-10:30 Coffee / tea break
  Plenary session
10:30-11:30Keynote speeces - Moderator Christian Borgemeister, University of Bonn
11:30-12:00Conference review Joachim von Braun
12:00-12:10Photocompetition - best photo / best photo series (Let's Plant e.V.)
12:10-12:20Conference review by the student reporters
12:20-12:30Poster awards
12:30-13:00 Closing remarks and handing over to the University of Göttingen, Germany - moderation: Mathias Becker, University of Bonn
End of Tropentag 2025 around 13:00