CLIFOOD:  Field trip within the Block Seminar 3

24-25 March 2018

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 third Block Seminar of the CLIFOOD SDG Graduate School was held at the University of Hohenheim, Germany from March 22 to 28, 2018. During this seminar CLIFOOD scholars as well as young scientists and lecturers from HU and UHOH were trained.

The third Block Seminar focused on climate change aspects, crop, weather and climate modeling and consisted of the lectures and workshops given by experts from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), National Meteorology Agency from Ethiopia, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), UK Met Office, Ethiopian Institute of Agriculture and Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and professors from Hawassa University, University of Augsburg and University of Hohenheim.

Besides the lectures and workshops, a field trip was part of the program. On March 24-25, 2018 the participants visited the Katharinentaler Hof, where they learned about LI-COR Eddy Covariance Systems for Flux Measurements, the Maulbronn Monastery, the Hauff Museum of the prehistoric world and the Nature Conservation Center Schopfloch.