CLIFOOD: Public event within the Block Seminars at Hawassa University
As part of the qualification program for the SDG Graduate School CLIFOOD, six Block Seminars are planned per generation of PhD Scholars between the Hawassa University (HU) in Ethiopia and the University of Hohenheim (UHOH).
The first and second Block Seminars of the CLIFOOD SDG Graduate School (1: Introduction to state of the art in research on climate change and food security with respect to SDGs and 2: Food and feed Crops) took place at the Hawassa University from November 20th to 29th, 2017. CLIFOOD scholars from HU and UHOH as well as young scientists and lecturers from HU were trained during the Block Seminars.
The seminars included lectures, workshops and a field trip to Dale district (visit of drought prone agricultural systems, Enset growing farm household and Coffee processing cooperative). The highlight of the seminars was the public event on November 24, 2017 with invited experts and key-note speakers from national Ethiopian and international research organizations, HU and UHOH.
The CLIFOOD (PhD and postdoc) scholars also had the opportunity to present and discuss their research projects and get the feedback from the colleagues, experts and subproject leaders.
Program:
| Official opening and welcoming by |
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| Ayano Beraso, President Hawassa University Prof. Dr. Reiner Doluschitz, Director of the Food Security Center, University of Hohenheim, Germany |
Key note speakers:
| DAAD: opportunities, networks in Africa and Ethiopia |
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| Dr. Gerald Heusing / Director, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Ethiopia, Addis Ababa |
| Adoption of Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) and Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) technologies for integrated landscape management |
| Tadesse Melaku / Deputy Program Manager, Sustainable Land Management Program, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Addis Abeba |
| SDG Interactions: From science to implementation |
| Dr. Claudia Ringler / Deputy Division Director, Environment and Production Technology Division/International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)/Flagship co-lead, Managing Resource Variability, Risks and Competing Uses for Resilience (VCR), CGIAR WLE, Washington, USA |
| Introduction to agricultural structures in Germany and EU - Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) |
| Prof. Dr. Reiner Doluschitz / Director of the Food Security Center, University of Hohenheim, Germany |
| Introduction to research priorities of HU in line with Ethiopian strategic agricultural policies |
| Dr. Tesfaye Abebe / Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer, Hawassa University |
| Water-food-energy-climate nexus: call for innovations |
| Prof. Dr. Joachim Müller / Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics, University of Hohenheim, Germany |
| Research on regional climate change in Hohenheim |
| Prof. Dr. Thilo Streck / Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation,University of Hohenheim, Germany |
| Challenges of agricultural production in arid and semi-arid regions: research priorities of ICRISAT |
| Dr. Tilahun Amedie / International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Addis Abeba |
| -Presentations by subprojects PhD scholars |
