The number of foreign students, especially from developing countries, has always been relatively high, and already in 1961 the Institute for Foreign Agriculture was built up and headed by Professor Josef Gabriel Knoll, a plant production specialist and later by Professor Dr. Hans Ruthenberg, an agricultural economist. Both were pioneers in development oriented agricultural research.
The climate changes caused by the eruption of volcano Tambora in Indonesia in 1815 resulted in crop failures and famine in Southern Germany and other parts of Europe. To mitigate the famine in the subsequent years, the royal couple of Württemberg had founded the Agricultural Research and Teaching Institution at Hohenheim in 1818.
German Science Council recommends to pool tropical competences in Hohenheim and Göttingen.
The state government agrees to found a center for agriculture in the Tropics and Subtropics with twelve professorships in Hohenheim.
The Center for Agriculture in the Tropics and Subtropics is founded. It is the first scientific center at the University of Hohenheim.
Today the institute has two working groups
Today the institute has four working groups
Today the the institute has three working groups
The DFG-funded Special Research Program (SFB) "Adapted Farming in West-Africa" (1985-1999) was the first large interdisciplinary project on development-oriented research in tropical agriculture coordinated in Hohenheim and the pioneer SFB of DFG implementing extensive, applied agricultural research in two developing African countries, namely Benin and Niger.
First student excursion to Colombia.
First student excursion to Kenia
With the call of Prof. Dr. Werner Mühlbauer the Institute for Agricultural Engineering in the Tropics and Subtropics was founded. Today the working group Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics with Prof. Dr. Joachim Müller is part of the Institute of Agricultural Engineering
The Tropentag takes place every year. Nowadays, it is jointly organised by the universities of Berlin, Bonn, Göttingen, Hohenheim, Kassel-Witzenhausen, Hamburg, ZALF e.V., ETH Zurich (Switzerland), Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (Czech Republic), BOKU Vienna (Austria) and the Council for Tropical and Subtropical Research (ATSAF e.V) in co-operation with the GIZ Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF).
The International PhD Programme "Agricultural Economics and Related Sciences" is a programme which offers PhD scholarships and supervision of PhD students as a package in the fields of agricultural economics and disciplines which have a relation to economics
First student excursion to India
The TropenMaster, today knwo as AgriTropics is the first Hohenheim M.Sc. programme offered in English.. It is designed to provide students of all nationalities and scientific training in all aspects of the agricultural sector and related fields, including communication, negotiation and project implementation skills. It also prepares students for a PhD in the field of life science.
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Between 1996 and 2006 Dr. Hermann Eiselen personally sponsored the “Josef G. Knoll” professorship for Development Studies at the Universität Hohenheim. The visiting professorship was set up to promote food security and eradicate hunger in developing countries.
Title: "Technischer Fortschritt im Spannungsfeld von Ernährungssicherung und Ressourcenschutz".
First english Master programme at the University of Hohenheim
Title: "International Agricultural Research A Contribution to Crisis Prevention"
The Uplands Program (SFB 564) was a long-term research collaboration between Hohenheim University and seven universities and research institutes in Thailand and Vietnam. The program started in the year 2000 and fourteen DFG-funded projects concluded their research on 30th June 2012.
In 2004 (March 2-19) a student excursion to Costa Rica was organised by the Centre for Agriculture in the Tropics and Subtropics, the Institute for Plant Breeding (Seed Science and Population Genetics) and the Seeds and Grains Research Centre of the Universidad de Costa Rica
Title: "The Global Food and Product Chain - Dynamics, Innovations, Conflicts and Strategies".
As a biennial event, the Centre for Agriculture in the Tropics and Subtropics of Hohenheim University (TROZ) offers students the opportunity to participate in an educational tour through a tropical or subtropical region - well-known as ‚Große Tropenexkursion’.
In 1982, the Tropenzentrum started its work and took up a leading role in development oriented research and related academic teaching. Within these 25 years of scientific engagement in regions like Sub-Sahara Africa, South-East Asia and Latin America the Tropenzentrum has also built a strong and viable network among research institutions, universities, scientists, local organisations and regional experts.
LILAC (Living Landscapes China) was focusing on rural development through land use diversification in the south-western Chinese highlands.
The project integrated complimentary skills and expertise from public and private sector institutions in Germany and China, aiming to enhance the economic viability and sustainability of Jatropha-based biofuel production systems by introducing innovative industrial and livestock production systems.
Contribution of tropical pastures to future food security and environmental health. Symposium held on the occasion of the retirement of Prof. Rainer Schultze-Kraft on February 16, 2007, Euroforum, University of Hohenheim.
A joint event of the City of Stuttgart, GIZ and Tropenzentrum to elaborate synergies between science and development cooperation and to promote network ing.
Title: "Competition for Resources in a Changing World: New Drive for Rural Development".
Developing RIce and SOrghum Crop Adaptation Strategies for climate change in vulnerable environments in Africa
The Food Security Center (FSC) was founded in 2009, after the University of Hohenheim and its Tropenzentrum had been among the five award winners in a nationwide competition called by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). With the foundation of the FSC,
GrassNet adressed innovative basic and applied research questions of grassland science using interdisciplinary approaches on different scales.
In 2009 the Tropenzentrum looks back on almost thirty years of research and teaching in development oriented agricultural sciences. The new brochure highlighted the current activities and recent achievements of the Tropenzentrum, including the successful initiative regarding the establishment of the Food Security Center.
Senator of Honour Dr. Dr. h.c. Hermann Eiselen passed away on 21 June 2009, aged 83, after a short period of illness
On October 16th Hohenheim hosted an international symposium on world food issues. With this academic event the Universität Hohenheim analogous to the other eight universities in Baden-Württemberg decided to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. The Universität Hohenheim arranged a conference on a topic specifically relevant to Hohenheim: Food Security. About 450 people, many of them students, scientific staff and professors joined the event which took place in lecture hall B1.
In 2010 (March 13-28) a study trip to Northern Vietnam was organised. The study trip, led by Prof. Stahr, Prof. Cadisch, Dr. Clemens and Dr. Kammesheidt, provided insights into nature conservation issues through the visit of the Ba Be National Park. The second part of the excursion was devoted to the interdisciplinary agricultural research of Hohenheim’s “Uplands Program” in the Son La province and the impact of large-scale infrastructure projects, i.e. the Son La dam project.
The overall objective of the joint project SURUMER is to develop an integrative, applicable, and stakeholder-validated concept for sustainable rubber cultivation in southern Yunnan.
SuMaRio is a research consortium of fifteen German partners and three further international partners alongside with eight Chinese partners and nine Chinese stakeholders.
Carbon-optimized land management strategies for southern Amazonia.
Congratulations to Katrin Pütz! She is the winner of the NatureLife Sustainability award of the Tropenzentrum
Innovate is an interdisciplinary joint research project with various German and Brazilian research institutes and focuses on the interplay among multiple uses of water reservoirs via innovative coupling of substance cycles in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The German project coordination is assigned to the Technical University Berlin (TUB). The University of Hohenheim (UHOH) is represented by the Institute of Plant Production and Agroecology in the Tropics and Subtropics (380b), the Institute of Farm Management (410c) and the Institute of Animal Production in the Tropics and Subtropics (480a), the latter coordinates the contributions of the University of Hohenheim.
On October 15th, 2012 the Tropenzentrum celebrated its 30th anniversary with an international colloquium on Agricultural Research for Global Food Security and Sustainability.
The excursion from February 22nd to March 10th 2012 aimed to demonstrate and discuss at the example of Costa Rica issues related to tropical agriculture, processing and marketing of tropical crops, rural development, as well as research and teaching and the conservation of natural resources. There was great interest of the students to participate and finally 18 students were nominated.
Trans-SEC is supported by the funding initiative "Securing the Global Food Supply - GlobE" and embedded in the framework program "National Research Strategy BioEconomy 2030". Seven German research institutes, two CGIAR research centers from Kenya and USA as well as five Tanzanian institutes are involved in Trans-SEC. The specific objective of the collaborative research project Trans-SEC is to improve the food situation for the most-vulnerable rural poor population in Tanzania. Four working groups in Hohenheim are involved in the project: the Institute of Agricultural Engineering, the chair of Crop Water Stress Management in the Tropics and Subtropics, the Biological Chemistry and Nutrition group, and the Soil Chemistry and Pedology group. It is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and co-financed by the BMZ.
BiomassWeb is a ZEF (Center for Development Research of the University of Bonn) coordinated research programme focussing on “Improving food security in Africa through increased system productivity of biomass-based value webs” with the participation of numerous African research institutions, the Forschungzentrum Jülich and the University of Hohenheim. It aims at contributing to food security in Sub-Saharan Africa by focussing on biomass-based value webs. Hohenheim is involved with five work packages (WP): the chair Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development with the WP Governance, the Tropics and Subtropics Group of Agricultural Engineering with the WP Postharvest innovations, WP Nutritional quality of the chair Biological Chemistry and Nutrition, the WP Innovative propagation technologies (Speciality Crop chair) and the WP Global Biomass Utilisation of the Hohenheim Food Security Center. The programme is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) .
Title: "Agricultural development within the rural-urban continuum".
In 1999 the first two students were awarded with the Ruthenberg prize and on Tropentag 203 the 40h student. Find out more about this award in an interview with Dr. Andrea Fadani, director of the Foundation fiat panis on Tropentag 2013 in Hohenheim.
The University of Hohenheim has established a new research training group "Water - People - Agriculture" with the generous support of the Anton & Petra Ehrmann-Stiftung. Within the next 12 years the research training group will will focus on integrative solutions to water issues and conflicts.
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