Tropentag 2024 - programme

• Workshop 1: cancelled
• Workshop 2: Structures, processes and impacts of migration on agriculture, food security and (rural) development in West Africa
• Workshop 3: Beyond Carbon Credits - Reflecting on Offsetting Practices and Exploring Climate Strategies for a Better Life for all – The BOKU University Approach
• Workshop 4: Experience Exchange: Lessons-learned from Higher Education
• Workshop 5: Integrating Gender and Socio-Technical Bundling Approaches for Climate-Resilient Agrifood System Innovations
• Workshop 6: Systems Analysis and Design of Agri-food Systems in a Changing Climate
• Workshop 7: Organisational development for researchers - “step up for researchers”
• Workshop 8: Valuation of agricultural ecosystem services
• Workshop 25: Bridge- der biovision practicioner circle
• Workshop IFS: closed workshop - IFS – carrying science forward, session 1

• Workshop 9: Art-based and participatory research methods for integrating community voices
• Workshop 10: Knowledge management for sustainable agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa
• Workshop 11: Forgotten crops, overlooked actors and participatory research: unlocking the potentials of value chains for transforming food systems
• Workshop 12: Exploring Participatory Methods in Livestock Research: empowering livestock keepers through research
• Workshop 13: Decolonising knowledge and practice in agricultural research
• Workshop 14: Fieldwork in countries facing protracted crises
• Workshop 15: How to foster food and nutrition sovereignty in Africa through a multi-actor food system approach. Exchanging lessons and best practices from ten HealthyFoodAfrica Food Fystem Labs
• Workshop 16: I-CLEANED - a tool for prioritizing profitable, environmentally sustainable and inclusive livestock interventions, through participatory assessment of multi-dimensional environmental impacts
• Workshop 17: Behavioural Change towards Food-system Transformation
• Workshop 18: Scaling outputs and impact: Experiences from the Task Force on Scaling (2015-2024)
• Workshop 19: Food Environment data for food system transformation – From Science to Decision
• Workshop 28: Nature Conservation, Land Grabbing, and Indigenous Peoples' Rights: Maasai in Northern Tanzania are defending their own vision for conservation and sustainable livelihoods
• Workshop 30: Key insights and challenges for sustainable intensification in Africa: issues addressed, issues emerging and steps ahead
• Workshop 32: online only - Technologies and Methodologies to Scale up Climate Smart Agriculture in India

Welcome addresses and opening - Moderation: Katharina Gugerell, BOKU University

Keynote speeches and discussion

• Dr. Franz Fischler, President IHS, Institute Advanced Studies
• Dr. Anja Gassner, CIFOR-ICRAF Director Europe, Bonn, Germany
• Dr. Lerato Thakholi, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands and University of the Western Cape, South Africa

• Nzula Kitaka, Egerton University, Dept Biological Science, Kenya
• Jennie Barron, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden
• Johannes M. Waldmüller, University Vienna, Austria
• Johanna Jacobi, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

• Workshop 20: Rocking soils? How to conduct silicate rock powder experiments in the tropics
• Workshop 21: Agroecological Transitions in Kenya: Pathways and Lessons
• Workshop 22: Plants, Microbes, People & Learning Landscapes: Biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) for Sustainable Agriculture
• Workshop 23: Making better photos of research in and on landscapes and agriculture
• Workshop 24: Let’s explore how to integrate gender sensitivity in agricultural research and projects
• Workshop 29: Lessons learned from Tropentag for integrated land water resources management in Africa
• Workshop IFS: closed workshop - IFS – carrying science forward, session 2