The production of quantitatively sufficient food and access to high-quality food are globally anchored in the Sustainable Development Goals. Continued population growth, climate change, and increased resource use threaten food and nutrition security and thus the livelihoods of millions of small farmers. Only with an interdisciplinary effort based on evidence-based, scientific knowledge can a paradigm shift towards agroecological, sustainable, and highly productive agriculture be achieved that will secure these farmers their livelihoods and people their food in the long term.

The world needs scientists from these disciplines such as development experts, economists and ecologists, breeders and agronomists, climate scientists, and water experts to work together to achieve this goal.
Agritropics provides broad-based knowledge in tropical agriculture and combines interdisciplinary approaches in a degree program that specifically trains you in development-oriented agricultural research, preparing you to competently lead multidisciplinary teams.

The University of Hohenheim (UHOH) and the University of Life Sciences in Prague (CZU) are offering this double degree program together.

Students can choose at which of the two universities they start their studies and switch to the other partner university in their second year. In the last semester students will conduct their Master’s thesis project under the supervision of scientists from both universities and they will have the chance to work on ongoing research projects in the tropics and subtropics.