Tropentag 2023

IFPRI is pleased to be featured as the CGIAR center of focus at this year’s Tropentag, an annual interdisciplinary conference on research in tropical and subtropical agriculture, natural resource management and rural development. Tropentag 2023 is organized by the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany in cooperation with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany around the theme “Competing pathways for equitable food systems transformation: trade-offs and synergies.” IFPRI's DG and Managing Director of the CGIAR Systems Transformation Science Group Johan Swinnen is delivering a keynote address, and two events are being organized by the CGIAR Systems Transformation Science Group and CGIAR/IFPRI.  A large number of researchers from IFPRI and other CGIAR centers will present and participate in Tropentag 2023.

| Day 1: September 20, 2023 |

Plenary Session Address | Keynote Speech | Fritz-Reuter-Hall | 3:00 – 4:45 PM CEST

Achieving resilient food systems (Abstract)

• Johan Swinnen, Director General IFPRI; CGIAR Managing Director Systems Transformation Science Group

Advancing a demand-driven research portfolio to improve water, land and food systems in the Global South (CGIAR/Systems Transformation Action Area) (Program) | Parallel Oral Thematic Sessions I | Conference Plenary Hall | 5:15 – 6:45 PM CEST 

• The role of groundwater as an accelerator of agricultural transformation: Insights from the CGIAR initiative on NEXUS Gains | Claudia Ringler, Director, Natural Resources and Resilience (NRR), IFPRI | (Abstract) 
• Leveraging agroecological transitions: Experiences from the CGIAR initiative on agroecology | Marcela Quintero, Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) | (Abstract)
• Applying a social equity approach to transformative adaptation: Minimising trade-offs between environmental and socio-economic outcomes | Ana Maria Loboguerrero, Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) | (Abstract)
• Navigating climate mitigation in global food systems: Insights from CGIAR | Augusto Castro-Nunez, Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) | (Abstract)
• Responsible digital innovation in agri-food systems: ethical and equitable transformation for sustainable agriculture |  Jonathan Steinke, Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) | (Abstract)
• Responsible digital innovation in agri-food systems: ethical and equitable transformation for sustainable agriculture | Nicholas Minot, Deputy Division Director, Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division, IFPRI | (Abstract)

Oral Presentation Session | Lecture Hall 1072 | 5:15 – 6:45 PM CEST

Experiential learning and the power of women (Abstract)

• Thomas Falk, Research Fellow, IFPRI

| Day 2: September 21, 2023 |

Poster Session | SR 1.201 | 8:30 - 9:15 AM CEST

Games for social learning: Triggering collective changes in commons management (Abstract)

• Thomas Falk, Research Fellow, IFPRI

Oral Presentation Session | Lecture Hall 1072 | 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM CEST

Developing women’s empowerment in energy index: Conceptual framework and empirical evidence (Abstract)

• Prapti Barooah, Senior Research Analyst, IFPRI

CGIAR Policy Seminar Series | Parallel Oral Thematic Sessions III | 1:45 – 3:15 PM CEST | 7:45- 9:15 am EDT | Event Information & Registration

Payments for Ecosystem Services: Win-Win Solutions? (BMZ/GIZ session) (Abstract)

• Johan Swinnen, Director General IFPRI; CGIAR Managing Director Systems Transformation Science Group
• Claudia Ringler, Director, Natural Resources and Resilience (NRR), IFPRI

Oral Presentation Session | Lecture Hall 2097 | 3:45 – 5:15 PM CEST

The impacts of groundwater development on agriculture food system in Senegal: A general equilibrium assessment (Abstract)

• Angga Pradesha, Senior Scientist, IFPRI

Oral Presentation Session | Lecture Hall 1072 | 3:45 – 5:15 PM CEST

A conceptual framework of living labs for people: Fostering innovations for low-emissions food systems and social equity (Abstract)

• Ryan Nehring, Associate Research Fellow, IFPRI

Poster Session | SR 1.404 | 5:30 – 6:10 PM CEST

Impacts of electrification on the welfare of rural households in Ethiopia: A gendered perspective (Abstract)

• Tiruwork Arega, Research Officer, IFPRI

Poster Session | SR 1.504 | 5:30 – 6:10 PM CEST

Water and well-being: How access to irrigation influences food security among smallholder farmers (Abstract)

• Prapti Barooah, Senior Research Analyst, IFPRI

Poster Session | SR 1.505 | 5:30 – 6:10 PM CEST

A political ecology approach for the co-production of knowledge in living labs (Abstract)

• Ryan Nehring, Associate Research Fellow, IFPRI