Tropentag 2019 - Student blog - student reporters

Gabriel, the explorer

degodoy — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 12:02:14 +0000

Gabriel is an Agricultural Engineer from Brazil that just arrived in Belgium to start a MSc. Program in Nutrition and Rural Development at the University of Ghent. In the past years, he had some experiences with Sustainable Agriculture that significantly changed his way of understanding food production and the use of natural resources. He is looking forward to enjoy this opportunity of studying in Europe and learn about cultural and technical aspects of food production and consumption in a different continent. He is really excited to work as a Student Reporter at Tropentag as he believes this event covers a lot of the needs for enhancing agricultural production around the world, and it will be a great start for his young career abroad.

Student Reporters: Introduction Video

TT — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 22:00:10 +0000

The motion for lunch is rejected

Philipp Gassner — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:31:15 +0000

‘The motion for lunch is rejected’, ruled Joachim Von Braun of the University of Bonn wittily, when chairing the first plenary session at the Science Forum 2013. He rather carried on with the session, setting the scene of the Forum and pointing out, why sufficient lunch is also still rejected to 925 million people world wide. To answer why 15% of the world’s population suffer from undernourishment after decades of agricultural research is indeed a tough one. The vast amount of knowledge gathered during this time was obviously not enough. At the same time ‘We don’t need to know everything’, Von Braun pointed out. What we really have to know, keynote speaker Patrick Webb from Tufts University sketched - to provide everybody with the lunch they deserve. Read more A healthy lunch @ Science Forum

Voices of Veggies

Philipp Gassner — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:45:46 +0000

Urban gardeners, and those to be, got the unique chance of watching gardens speak, at the end of the very lively and fruitful day of the Tropentag 2013. In her film Speaking Gardens filmmaker Teresa Beck joins art with ecology and impressively introduces the Berlin urban gardening movement, along seven urban gardening projects. Read more

The student reporters - who we are

De-Registered User — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:42:11 +0000

Overall, 12 student reporters are blogging, tweeting and taking pictures of the Tropentag 2012. We are from countries around the globe and have diverse research backgrounds. In the following you can find more information about us and our responsibilities: The editors are mainly writing this blog here , are blogging on facebook or tweeting on twitter . The members of this team are: Divya Rajeswari Swaminathan (India), PhD student in Developmental Studies, Centre for Developmental Research in Bonn Minette Flora Mendoza De Asis (Philippines), PhD student in Agricultural Economics, Humboldt-University Berlin Reginald Tang Guuroh (Ghana), PhD student in Vegetation Geography, UNU-EHS in Bonn Pamella Akoth Ogada (Kenya), research assistant in Plant Pathology and Entomology, University of Hannover Tina Atieno Omuombo (Kenya), PhD student in Quaternary Geology in Paleo-climate, University of Nairobi and University of Paris 6

Insider-information on Student Reporters and the Tropentag by our senior student reporter Minette

De-Registered User — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 07:52:52 +0000

"Being a student reporter teaches you how to bring across information throughout a lift ride." Senior student reporter Minette Flora Mendoza De Asis from the Philippines talks about her experiences being a student reporter and shares some thoughts about the Tropentag in general. Minette, why would you recommend the Tropentag? Because it's a venue for young scientists to present their research and offers a platform to get in touch with other scientists. It also presents the recent debates and depicts the challenges we currently face in agriculture.

Student Reporters: We Are Ready For The Tropentag!

De-Registered User — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:05:03 +0000

The preparatory workshop for Student Reporters has ended. We now have 12 motivated students waiting to serve YOU all the news, fun and excitement that this year's Tropentag presents.

...Facebook, Flickr, Twitter or YouTube So join the fun!
your Student Reporter Team

Welcome to Tropentag

De-Registered User — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:33:30 +0000

Young scientists from European affiliated universities from around the world engaged as student reporters at Tropentag 2012

The Tropentag Conference jointly organized by the University of Gottigen and Kassel will take place on the 19th to 21st September 2012. The event themed "Resilience of agricultural systems against crises" has had over 1000 registered participants who will convene at University of Gottigen to present their research on agricultural issues dealing with livestock, plants and soils, forestry, socio economics, engineering, modeling and development cooperation. In order to capture all the activities taking place ATSAF e.V. Council for Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural Research based at the University of Hohenheim ,Stuttgart felt the need to engage student reporters from diverse backgrounds.

Student reporter at Tropentag 2012

De-Registered User — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:12:47 +0000

Student reporters' aim For the third time in a row, students from European universities will report on the Tropentag conference. Their work will be visible on three social platforms (twitter,facebook, and this blog). Out of 85 applications, 12 students were selected by the Council for Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural Research (ATSAF) to do the job. In a two day workshop they learn how to promote the conference adequately on social platforms. Then, between the 19 and the 21 of September 2012, they will interview the key note speakers of the conference (Achim Dobermann,Deborah Bossio, and Rodomiro Ortiz), report on the oral presentation of the thematic groups, and side events. Hopefully, their work will permit to reach a wide audience, to stimulate discussions, as well as to enable the reporter students to get practical experience on journalism.

You, scientist ahoy! Are you talking a language that is accessible to everyone?

De-Registered User — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:41:09 +0000

Tropentag, a conference of which participants are carrying tons of information in their heads. A very little amount of this information is presented in posters and shared in 10-minute oral presentations. What is the meaning beyond all this academic research and how does it contribute to the real life? And even further, how can the information gathered inside the walls of the University of Bonn for 3 days be used and understood in the world outside? “These are the questions we should ask from ourselves all the time,” Dr. Carla Roncoli from the Emory University says. According to Dr. Roncoli, there are two kinds of science and scientists. First, there are the academic scientists, more concentrating on the science itself. The questions that drive the main journals are not always the ones that contribute to the real world, though. These scientists often end up for example to teach in the Universities. In my head this means that they continue to live in the scientific world. Then there are the ones contributing more to the real world. Dr. Roncoli sees herself as a representative of this category, the category with more social aspect. Neither one of these two categories, Dr. Roncoli says, is better than the other. Valuable research is made within both of them, and researchers come up with important results and raise new questions. Dr. Roncoli herself has done interdisciplinary research and appreciates the different ways of learning and understanding things.