TROPENTAG 2015

22nd March 2015
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Tropentag 2015 was organized by the Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany on 16 – 18 September 2015 and the theme was:

“Management of land use systems for enhanced food security – conflicts, controversies and resolutions”.

AGRINATURA TRAVEL GRANT AND BEST POSTER AWARD 2015

Every year Agrinatura supports students going to Tropentag conference. In 2015 eight students received the travel grant as high as 500 EUR.
At the same time, Agrinatura granted the Best Poster Award of three best Tropentag posters with prize of 500 €, 300 € and 200 € respectively.

To be eligible, the applicant for a travel grant must fulfil the following conditions:

must be a student of an AGRINATURA member institution (the list of member institutions is available here)
must be first author of the contribution
must be personally present at the venue during the conference
must place the logo of Agrinatura on the contribution (poster or presentation) and agree with publication on a website.

The Awardees of AGRINATURA Travel Grant 2015 are listed in the table below:

Name	University	Country	Contribution
Norman Martín Casas	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	Evaluation of the Potential Inclusion of Dichrostachys cinerea Pods in Pig Diets in Cuba
Von Yi Yap	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	The Potential of Legume Adoption in Upland Maize Fields: A Case Study in Northern Thailand
Asikin Yoeu	SupAgro Montpellier	France	Land Policies for Upland Cambodia: Historical Perspective and Impacts on Land Use
Carlo Antonio Giallombardo	Wageningen University	The Netherlands	Women, Cocoa and Natural Resource Conservation: Relational Place-making in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Mara Lindtner	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	The Influence of Payments for Ecosystem Services on Land-Use Decisions in the Nicaraguan Agricultural Frontier
Sjoukje Visser	Wageningen University	The Netherlands	Analyzing nutrient flows in mixed crop-livestock systems to identify efficient practices in Western Kenya
Sebastian Fabian Zastruzny	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	Conflict potential over water resources and effects of the water management at the Bathi River
Katharina Schiller	Wageningen University	The Netherlands	Innovation platforms at work: Scaling up agroecology in Nicaragua

The awardees of Best Poster Award (prize of 500, 300 and 200 € respectively) are:

1. Charles Ikenna Nwankwo: Optimisation of Seedball Technology for Pearl Millet Production in the Sahel

2. Ariani Wartenberg: Shade-tree diversification in cacao agroforests: a more sustainable model?

3. Suzanne Ziegler: Potential of Agronomic Management Options on Rice Production in Valley Swamps of Uganda.