A serious Game for Agricultural Development I believe that we as
Young Professionals in Agricultural Research for Development can
have a big impact by thinking about innovative practices,
technologies and approaches in our working domains. Therefore I
would hereby like to share an example of such an innovative
approach to show other YPs how we can increase the effects of
our efforts by linking other working domains to our own. Context
of my research Land degradation is an increasing problem for
smallholder farmer communities in the Usambara Mountains of
Tanzania. A lot of research on this issue has been conducted in
this area, but there lacks communication with district level
policy makers, who can adjust and implement land conservation
policies. For my graduation research as MSc Land and Water
management, I took up the task to develop a computer game, which
could be used in a workshop with these policy makers. My study
was part of a research project, investigating the implementation
of sustainable land manag