Tropentag 2008 - Call for Papers
February 21, 2008.
Tropentag 2008
organised by the Center of Agriculture in the Tropics and Subtropics of the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart
October 7-9, 2008 in Hohenheim
'Competition for Resources in a Changing World:
New Drive for Rural Development'
we have the pleasure to inform you about the upcoming conference, which will take place in Hohenheim, Germany, from the 7th to 9th of October 2008. The call for papers and the first conference informations are now published on
www.tropentag.de/conference/call_tt2008.pdf
The deadline for submission of abstract(s) is April 30th, 2008. For the submission of your abstracts, we kindly request you to use the online form available at:
A panel of referees will decide upon the acceptance of the contributions based on the abstract.
The decision for a contribution to be accepted as poster or as oral presentation is at the discretion of this panel of referees. A programme committee will allocate the accepted oral contributions to 20 interdisciplinary sessions. Contributions of an interdisciplinary nature will be preferentially selected as oral presentation.
Poster contributions will be grouped into thematic clusters and will be addressed in guided poster sessions.
Authors of papers will have to submit a four page version of their paper by October 31th, 2008.
We especially encourage young scientists to submit their contributions.
For more detailed information please see the call text at www.tropentag.de
Since you have participated in previous Tropentag conferences, your data are already stored in the participants database. We therefore kindly request you to look up and provide your personal Tropentag ID, together with your abstract and also when registering as participant. By doing so, you will avoid duplicate person entries in our database.
You may verify and update / change your participant data by using the following link:
We are looking forward to your contribution and to welcoming you in Hohenheim next October.
For the organising committee,
yours sincerely
Prof. Dr. Georg Cadisch
Dr. Ludwig Kammesheidt
Centre for Agriculture in the Tropics and Subtropics
University of Hohenheim
Garbenstraße 13
D-70593 Stuttgart
http://www.tropentag.de
