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Advisory Board Meeting held in Eberswalde

21 November 2023

On 17th of November 2023, a TRANSECT advisory board meeting was held at Hochschule Eberswalde

                                                                                                                          © Henryk Alff 2023

Among the external advisors present were Ralf Bloch (HNE Eberswalde), Andrei Dörre (FU Berlin), Irna Hofman (University of Oxford), Ulan Kasimov (TU Dresden), Hermann Kreutzmann (FU Berlin), Daniel Müller (Leibniz Institute), Martin Petrick (Giessen University), Fabricio Rodríguez (University of Freiburg), and Matthias Schmidt (Augsburg University).

The program entailed an update by the TRANSECT group on their progress since the last meeting (held in 2021). Henryk reported on agrarian modernization processes in South and Central Asia. Mehwish and Michael held a joint presentation on their research on the complex and multifaceted seed sector in Pakistan. Aksana presented her findings on organic agriculture in Tajikistan’s cotton sector and challenges therein. Christoph reported on his crop type mapping study in South Punjab. The team also reported on the participatory workshops held with the rural stakeholders of the 3 case studies in Kazakhstan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan and the preliminary findings of the workshops. Critical discussions followed each presentation.

The afternoon was dedicated to the discussion of outlook for the TRANSECT group. All the participants, including the advisory board members, reported on their present engagements and future research plans and synergies were discussed.

The day ended with a visit to the Tadshikische Teestube in Berlin where discussions continued in a traditional Tajik tea house setting.
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