DITSL – German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture –
DITSL supports capacity building and human capacity development, technology development, collaborative learning and rural innovation worldwide.
DITSL initiates, conducts and fosters research, and raises public awareness on sustainable regional management and resource and land use with a focus on agro-ecosystems, knowledge systems, food safety and security, food- and product-chain development and related issues.
DITSL follows an inter- and transdisciplinary social-ecological research approach and puts an emphasis on sub/tropical low external input systems and organic agriculture in the tropics as two major fields of activities and expertise.
DITSL is a non-profit limited liability company (GmbH) at the Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences of the University of Kassel at its campus Witzenhausen.

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New JARTS Website and Publishing System
The » Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics (JARTS) went online with a new website, journal management and publishing system on May 05, 2010 under the domain www.jarts.info
 
Joint Seminar on topics in tropical and subtropical agriculture and forestry 2010
jointly organized by: Centre for International Rural Development, University of Kassel, DITSL GmbH / Witzenhausen, CeTSAF - Georg-August-University Göttingen, and Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD), University of Kassel
 
Summer School “Applied Solar Technology in Developing Countries”
organized by: Agricultural Engineering in the Tropics and Subtropics at the Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences in Witzenhausen and DITSL
funded by: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)