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“I’m sorry for your loss. May I check your pig?”
Does it sound cruel? If you said yes, researchers from Friedrich-Loeffler Institute agree with you. They had to go back to after-ebola-outbreak regions to perform a sorology research and here is what...
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Can Scientist have fun? Case study: #Tropentag2019 Conference Dinner
S.Oladokun and F. Martinelli Student Reporter at the Tropentag 2019 Conference, Kassel, Germany This study aimed to question the long-standing premise that “scientists are boring”. We hypothesize that...
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Fearing Climate change? Farmers are the future…..
“Under climate change environment it is real hard to forecast the future, farmers are the future”. The statement was given by Maik Veste from FarmImpact project in South Africa. CLIENT II is an...
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Biological and economical battle of legumes and cereals..
In the recent past decades, most funding programs and agricultural subsidies from both government and donors have been focused on cash crops such as cereals, to overcome food security rather than...
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Hemp: grow it, not burn it!
Danilo Crispim Massuela shares a compelling revelation about the potentials of Hemp as a socio-economic driver via his oral presentation at the #Tropentag2019. The legality of hemp production continues...
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Certified coffee, good for the planet?
You crave coffee, go to the market and must choose between two options: fairtrade organic versus non-certified coffee. The first option costs few cents more, but as the conscious consumer you are, you...
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Empowering the next generation of food security innovators
“This is the most connected generation of our entire history”, said Bianca Costa, an inspiring Brazilian student I met (from many others!) today at Tropentag. In a fun interview in Portuguese, she...
View ArticleThe Most Sustainable Tropentag Ever
Sustainability is founded on the three pillars: economics, environmentalism and social consciousness. The efforts to create a more sustainable conference at this year’s Tropentag cannot be unnoted....
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Policy briefs would simplify science: are policymakers and scientists ready?...
Science and other knowledge are not used effectively in the policymaking process. Most of the time, there is a disconnect between scientists and politicians, they contradict each other due to different...
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Anything birds eat, human can eats!
“May be, I would try insects, but caterpillars mmh!” one person was heard in the gathering...................... Did you know that insects and caterpillars are also food for human? My grandmother once...
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