The humble chocolate bar has to be one of the world’s favourite treats; with a 5,000-year-strong history, it has previously taken the form of a currency, a luxurious drink and even as a medicine. Chocolate
It is Day Two of Tropentag 2026 and we are deep into the afternoon presentations. I am watching the 2 o’clock session by Dr Mouritala Sikirou, about optimising screening against brown streak disease in the
Now that conference has ended, what comes next? By Chidi Emenike By Friday afternoon, the posters came down, and the next Tropentag was formally handed over to the University of Giessen. The closing session in
UKUDLA is preparing to open a call for two-year postdoctoral positions for German postdocs to conduct research at its centre in Southern Africa. The announcement came during a Tropentag 2026 workshop exploring how data science can help address food system challenges across Africa. (Photo: Ajit Masurkar)
What if how money reaches farmers matters as much as how much they get? Research from Tropentag 2026 suggests that the delivery channel can change what farmers do next. For years, the answer to slow
How do rising food prices, falling crop prices, droughts and floods affect food security when they hit rural households together? At Tropentag 2026, Shamsurrahman Hamdard presented new research on how economic and environmental shocks shape food security and resilience among rural households in Afghanistan.
By Chidi Emenike What happens when smallholder farmers stop working entirely on their own? Can working together help them produce more, reduce costs and negotiate better prices? These were the questions behind Farrukh Shahzad’s presentation
PRIMA, the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area, is a 10-year initiative (2018-28), funded by the EU and 20 member countries to create collaborative solutions to water management, farming systems and food
The hard questions for agriculture are inseparable from the hard questions facing society.
In Nairobi’s informal settlements, teenagers know healthy eating matters—but poverty and limited food choices keep balanced diets out of reach. At Tropentag 2025, Chiara Masser from Justus Liebig University Giessen presented striking new evidence on
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