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On November 8, 2024, the HortiBonn group joined the final “HortiPrimed” meeting. The BMEL/BÖL-funded project focuses on priming strategies to enhance tomato plant resilience against abiotic and biotic stresses in tomato production. HortiBonn developed a holistic model and “Optimal Priming App” for stakeholders, presenting insights on priming’s impact through simulations and addressing uncertainties in tomato production processes.

On 23 Oct 2024, HortiBonn’s Dr. Alex Röll appeared as one of three speakers in the event series ‘Water & Drought’ (Wasser & Trockenheit) as organized by the district of Euskirchen near Bonn.

Representing the University of Bonn as a key research institution in North Rhine Westfalia (NRW), HortiBonn’s Dr. Alex Röll followed an invitation by the Ministry of Agriculture NRW for the inaugural networking meeting of the NRW Forest Research Network (‘Forschungsnetzwerk Wald NRW’) on 10 Oct 2024 in Düsseldorf.

German version below HortiBonn took part at the well-attended joint apple day of the Dienstleistungszentrum Ländlicher Raum (DLR), the NRW Chamber of Agriculture and the University of Bonn on 16 August 2024 in Klein-Altendorf.

The NIFAM project has reached an exciting milestone. On July 16, Bac Hong Cooperative and Garment 10 Joint Stock Company (Garco 10) met with the Fruit and Vegetable Research Institute (FAVRI) to make final steps for cooperation on setting up vegetable stands at Garco 10, aiming to help garment workers access safe vegetables.

On July 9th, 2024, the Institute for Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES) Horticultural Sciences welcomed Douglas W. Hubbard, a renowned management consultant, speaker, and author of decision sciences and actuarial science.

On July 4th and 5th, 2024, HortiBonn’s Dr. Marcos Jiménez Martínez ABCDR and Simon Swatek REFOREST had the opportunity to meet poplar farmer and consultant Mr. Wolfram Kudlich at his office in Uffenheim.

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) celebrated the Drought and Desertification Day and its 30th anniversary in Bonn, Germany on 17th June 2024. On this occasion, the INTERFACES project team at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) gathered land lovers and heroes from diverse backgrounds around a panel discussion and an interactive marketplace to foster exchange on the topic “Science in Support of Combatting Land Degradation”.

On June 20th, 2024, the “Forschungsnetzwerk NRW-Agrar” invited agricultural stakeholders to Campus Klein-Altendorf to discuss the future of agroforestry in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). Titled “Agroforestry Systems in Agriculture - A Perspective for North Rhine-Westphalia?

The HortiBonn group was in Brno, Czech Republic from May 23-27, 2024 to attend the 7th European Agroforestry (EURAF) Conference. 396 attendees were present from 43 countries, all to explore the potentials of agroforestry in transforming and improving agricultural landscapes across not just Europe but the globe.