On the 5th October 2011, Gordon spoke at the annual Conference on Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural and Natural Resource Management (TROPENTAG) at the University of Bonn, Germany

Development on the Margin

The annual Conference on Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural and Natural Resource Management (TROPENTAG) was jointly organised by the universities of Bonn, Göttingen, Hohenheim, Kassel-Witzenhausen, Hamburg, Zurich as well as by the Council for Tropical and Subtropical Research (ATSAF e.V) in co-operation with the GIZ Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF).

Tropentag 2011 was held in Bonn, Germany. All students, Ph.D. students, scientists, extension workers, decision makers, politicians and practical farmers, interested and engaged in agricultural research and rural development in the tropics and subtropics were invited to participate and to contribute.

Target of the conference

The Tropentag is a development-oriented and interdisciplinary conference. It addresses issues of resource management, environment, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food, nutrition and related sciences in the context of rural development, sustainable resource use and poverty alleviation worldwide.

Keynote speakers

• Gordon R. Conway, Imperial College London: "The double green revolution".  Download PDF copy of Gordon's speech here 
• Rattan Lal, Ohio State University: "Marginal land"
• Paul Richards, Wageningen University: "Marginal people"
• Tewolde Berhan, World Future Council: "Who and what is marginal?"
• Hans J. Preuss, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ): "Challenges to marginality"
• Anthony Patt, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA): "Vulnerable people"
• Christian Borgemeister, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) : "Resource use and ecosystem services"
• Ravinder Paul Singh Malik, International Water Management Institute (IWMI): "Water resources for the production systems on the margin"
• Carla Roncoli, University of Georgia: "System under stress"

A list of all the meeting participants can be found here 

Rattan Lal, Sir Gordon Conway and Paul Richards talk about how to include small holders into carbon trade in this video

You can read and see impressions of the Tropentag 2011 conference on their blog