International Conferences 2007-2023

Brief Report Conference 2022

Abstract Book Conference 2022

Abstract Book Conference 2023

September 27 - 29 , 2023

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PLACE of EVENT

• Mahatma Gandhi-House
  African Asian Studies Promotion Association, Göttingen, Germany

 ORGANIZATION

•  IFSDAA / International Foundation for Sustainable Development in Africa and Asia, Göttingen, Germany
• AASF / African Asian Studies Promotion Association, Göttingen, Germany
• HAWK Universiy of Applied Sciences and Arts, Göttingen, Germany
• SSARM / Society for Sustainable Agriculture and Resource Management, Hisar, India

•  International Office - Georg August University

   37075 Goettingen / Germany

World food security depends on food production, access to food and its availability at affordable costs. Food production in turn is determined by the genetic potential of crop varieties, their agronomic management, growing environment and genotype x environmental interactions. Often, crop plants witness environmental stresses, which could be either short or long term, intermittent or persistent. These stressors like drought, heat, salinity and flooding may occur singly or in combination. Both genetic and management solutions are needed to cope up with such stresses to infuse tolerance/resilience for sustainable agriculture and food security. 

Climate changes are witnessed globally which are marked by erratic changes in diurnal regimes, rainfall patterns, frequent droughts, floods and high and low temperatures. The average global temperature has risen by 0.9 ℃ since the nineteenth century, mainly due to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This rise is expected to be 1.5 ℃ by 2050 or may be even more. Due to deforestation, GHG emission is increasing and as a result soil, water bodies and air are being polluted. The resultant land degradation, deforestation and desertification may pose serious threat on crop productivity hence food security. [...]

September 14 - 16, 2022

PLACE of EVENT

• Mahatma Gandhi-House
  African Asian Studies Promotion Association, Göttingen, Germany

 ORGANIZATION

•  IFSDAA / International Foundation for Sustainable Development in Africa and Asia, Göttingen, Germany
• AASF / African Asian Studies Promotion Association, Göttingen, Germany
• HAWK Universiy of Applied Sciences and Arts, Göttingen, Germany
• SSARM / Society for Sustainable Agriculture and Resource Management, Hisar, India

World population is growing unabated, more so in developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The world population is expected to be about 8 billion in 2025 and will stabilize at about 10 billion people by 2050. Currently around 1 billion people suffer from hunger and 2 billion children are malnourished due to deficiency of minerals and vitamins. The food production needs to be doubled by 2050 from less land area and shrinking water and other natural resourcesfor meeting the needs of growing world population. This is a biggest challenge to the world food security and daunting task for the scientists, technocrats, agricultural experts, environmentalists and policy planners to achieve the targets while maintaining natural resource base of soils for sustainability of agricultural system.  [...]

EVENT DATE

• September 02-04, 2019

 PLACE of EVENT

•  HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts

 ORGANIZATION

•  IFSDAA / International Foundation for Sustainable Development in Africa and Asia, Göttingen, Germany
• HAWK Universiy of Applied Sciences and Arts, Göttingen, Germany
• AASF / African Asian Studies Promotion Association, Göttingen, Germany
• SSARM / Society for Sustainable Agriculture and Resource Management, Hisar, India

Innovations coupled with entrepreneurships in Science and Technology are essentially needed for realizing the UN goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. For that matter, appropriate, affordable, simple and easy to use technologies should be generated and potential entrepreneurs should be motivated and supported through skill development and financial assistance by national governments and international agencies for economic transformation and sustainable development in Africa and Asia. Science Technology Innovations and Entrepreneurships can increase the efficiency, effectiveness, impact and complement the efforts of government and institutions for socio-economic and environmental benefits under climate change.
Several innovations and green technologies, bio-technologies, agri-technologies developed and spread around the world over the last few decades, have
helped improving crop growth and health, establishing enterprises in agriculture, food and feed processing, health/hygiene, infrastructure and civic amenities in rural and urban settings. [...]

EVENT DATE

• September 13-15, 2018

PLACE of EVENT

• Mahatma Gandhi-House
  in: African Asian Studies Promotion Association, Göttingen, Germany

 ORGANIZATION

• IFSDAA / International Foundation for Sustainable Development in Africa and Asia, Göttingen, Germany
• HAWK Universiy of Applied Sciences and Arts, Göttingen, Germany
• AASF / African Asian Studies Promotion Association, Göttingen, Germany
• SSARM / Society for Sustainable Agriculture and Resource Management, Hisar, India

The United Nations sustainable development goals enshrined in their objectives that poverty was to be halved by 2015 by various nations globally. However, this goal has rarely been achieved by many countries. Much more remains to be done to achieve the targets.

 To achieve the UN 2030 agenda objective of ending poverty and hunger everywhere,the following issues are deemed pivotal:

1.) The majority of the Afro Asian population lives in rural areas which are mainly the production sites for raw materials. The utilization of natural resources is injudicious.

2.) In these regions national agricultural productivity is quite low while international investors are able to obtain high efficiency through capital and technology

deployment, economies of scale. However the produce is export bound and does not contribute to national needs.

3.) The impact of climate change is soaring, disaster management is in its infancy with regard to research, required dimension and footprint.

4.) The food processing industry is yet to gain pace, hence related economic growth is far below its potential.   [...]

Juni 25 - 28, 2018

PLACE of EVENT

• Erzurum, Turke

EVENT DATE

• July 07-09, 2017

PLACE of EVENT

• Mahatma Gandhi-House
  in: African Asian Studies Promotion Association, Göttingen, Germany

ORGANIZATION

• IFSDAA / International Foundation for Sustainable Development in Africa and   Asia, Göttingen, Germany
• Faculty of Agriculture Sciences and Landscape Architecture,  University of  Applied Sciences, Osnabrueck, Germany
• AASF / African Asian Studies Promotion Association, Göttingen, Germany

To ensure the food security for a growing world population with the possible repercussions of climate change is one of the major challenges to agriculture. This leads to constant pressure on crop production systems in order to enhance food quantity without increasing environmental degradation. Sustainable intensification (SI)of agriculture is a way forward to match these issues. That means to enhance efficiency of agricultural production, either by increasing yields without additional negative environmental impact as well as without expansion of cropland or by reducing negative external effects under constant yields. Several highly regarded studies and reports pointed out that sustainable intensification is the only possibility to ensure future food security and quantified the global potential of SI by projections and modelling.

Against this scientific background, transferability and applicability of sustainable intensification has to be discussed: How does the framework fit to various geographic regions, spatial scales or different farming systems (high/low input)? [...]

EVENT DATE

• September 27.- 29, 2016

PLACE of EVENT

• Mahatma Gandhi-House
  in: African Asian Studies Promotion Association, Göttingen, Germany

ORGANIZATION

• International Foundation for Sustainable Development in    Africa and Asia (IFSDAA) 
• Afro-Asian Studies Promotion Association, D-Göttingen (AASF)
• International Council for Sustainable Agriculture (ICSA)

Sustainable development is by and large determined by coherence among elements of sustainability like food security, environment, clean energy systems, judicious use of natural resources, application of advanced technologies and human as well as live stock health for welfare of civic society globally. Environmental soundness as well as fragility is of utmost concern to all living beings especially under climate change as it determines the expression of potential productivity of crops, animals, microorganisms etc. Food security is determined by crop production, access and affordability. The food basket is determined by nutritional and end use quality of produce, post-harvest processing, agro and allied industries and market forces.

Environmental sustainability is an integral component of food and feed security which are mutually exclusive. Clean or green energy systems from water, wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, sea waves etc. represent renewable energy resources without creating environmental pollution.   [...]

 February 02 - 04, 2013  /  February 21. - 22., 2014

PLACE of EVENT and ORGANIZATION

• Garhi, India

September 02.- 04,  2013

PLACE of EVENT

• Mahatma Gandhi-House
  in: African Asian Studies Promotion Association, Göttingen, Germany

September 10 - 12,  2012

PLACE of EVENT

Plant Breeding and Acclamatization Institute,  Radzikow, 05-870 Blonie, Polen

ORGANIZATION

• Society for Sustainable Agriculture and Resource Management, Hisar, India
• Cereal Research Non Profit Ltd., Szeged, Hungary

June 01 - 03,  2010

PLACE of EVENT

• Hungary

ORGANIZATION

• IFSDAA, Göttingen, Germany
• Cereal Research Non-Profit Ltd., Szeged, Hungary
• Society for Sustainable Agriculture and Resource Management, Hisar, India

July 14 - 16, 2009

PLACE of EVENT

• Mahatma Gandhi-House
  in: African Asian Studies Promotion Association, Göttingen, Germany

 ORGANIZATION

• IFSDAA, Göttingen, Germany
• Afro-Asian Studies Promotion Association (AASF), Göttingen / Germany

November 18. - 20, 2007

PLACE of EVENT

• Mahatma Gandhi-House
  in: African Asian Studies Promotion Association, Göttingen, Germany

ORGANIZATION

•  IFSDAA, Göttingen, Germany
•  Afro-Asian Studies Promotion Association, AASF, Göttingen, Germany
•  Georg August-University, Göttingen, Germany