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This year the call for proposal takes place in cooperation with the Tropentag 2025 conference and the Crop Trust (https://www.croptrust.org/). The topics of this years international photo competition are on the core concerns of the organizers:
- To upgrade / improve degraded land in the sense of holistic landscape management.
- To celebrate the sustainable production and use of neglected and underutilized crops (e.g. opportunity crops) in traditional diets.
The idea of the photo competition is to find pictures and photo reports on the topic that are as expressive as possible. In this way, interesting, promising and emotionally appealing approaches should be collected and made known.
As in the previous years, the two categories of the competition are:
- Best single picture
- Best photo story (max 10 photos)
For submitting your contributions, the following submission form has to be used and sent alongside the photos to fotocontest@lets-plant.org:
The submission form contains some further guidelines which include the provision of an informative title for the photo (story) and a small (scientific) background story on the photos. A jury made up of members of Let’s Plant, the organizers of Tropentag 2025 and, if applicable, expert sponsors, will review the entries and prepare a ranking list. Depending on the number of entries, one, two or three winners will be selected and exhibited on the homepages of the Tropentag 2025, the Let's Plant e.V. and the Crop Trust, and at other occasions such as physical and virtual photo exhibitions or for other non-commercial purposes. Winners will also receive a small gift.
As novelty, Let’s Plant e.V. expresses its willingness to select among all winners – if appropriate proposals are made - a local project linked to the photos, that can be supported with up to 1.500.- Euros over one year. For being eligible for this support, submissions should provide an additional 1-page outline of such a project.
By submitting, the sender agrees to provide a non-exclusive right to the NGO Let's Plant e.V. to use the pictures and the accompanying texts for non-commercial purposes, in particular for exhibitions in print and online, always acknowledging and mentioning the sender/copyright holder. In cooperation with appropriate sponsors, Let's Plant offers to organise publicly accessible exhibitions of the best placed photos.
Deadline for the submission of your photos is August 8, 2025.
The Results of the Photo Competition 2025
In September 2025 the conference took place on the campus of the University of Bonn, Germany. During the conference we had the chance to exhibit the winning photos of the previous years!
Also in 2025 many great photos had been submitted. We thank all participant for their contributions! The results are:
Opportunity crops – photo stories:
1nd place: Anthony Denayer See photo.
2nd place: Cécile Poitevin See photo.
3rd place: Yash Srivastava See photo.
Landscape restoration – photo stories:
1st place: Anthony Denayer See photos.
2nd place: Ana Willmann See photos.
3rd place: Waqar Ul Hassan Tareen See photos.
Landscape restoration – single photos:
1st place: Husnul Khotimah See photos.
2nd place: Mojtaba Nikzad See photos.
The Results of the Photo Competition 2024
In September 2024 the conference took place on the campus of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.. During the conference we had the chance to exhibit the winning photos of the previous years!
Also in 2023 many great photos had been submitted. We thank all participant for their contributions! The results are:
Category single photo:
1nd place: Naji sulaiman See photo.
2nd place: Farzin Nourisamani. See photo.
3rd place: Bonna Antoinette Tokou. See photo.
Category photo stories:
1st place: Mojtaba Nikzad. See photos.
2nd place: Paul Schmidt. See photos.
3rd place: Alexander Cano. See photos.
The Results of the Photo Competition 2023
In September 2023 the conference took place on the campus of the Humbold University in Berlin. During the conference we had the chance to exhibit the winning photos of the previous years!
Also in 2023 many great photos had been submitted. We thank all participant for their contributions! The results are:
Category single photo:
1nd place: Abdullah Thaseem Muhammed Shah. See photo.
2nd place: Lilli Scheiterle. See photo.
3rd place: Die-Yacine KA. See photo.
Category photo stories:
1st place: Kateryna Tuzhyk. See photos.
2nd place: Simon Lotz. See photos.
3rd place: Aung Zaw Oo. See photos.
The Results of the Photo Competition 2022
Already for the third time, Let's Plant e.V. has held a photo competition together with the Tropentag conference. Many interesting photos have been submitted. We thank all participant for their contributions! The results are:
Category single photo:
1st place: Chan Nandar. See photo.
2nd place: Marta Kifleab. See photo.
3rd place: Gabriella Troare. See photo.
Category photo stories:
1st place: Giovanna Chavez. See photos.
2nd place: Veronica Mwangi. See photos.
3rd place: Kataryna Tuzhyk. See photos.
3rd place: Lea-Sophie Hansen. See photos.
The winning photos of the 2022 photo competition as well as those of 2021 and 2020 will be exhibited in the cafeteria of the GIZ headquarters in Bonn during January and February 2023.
The Results of the Photo Competition 2021
Once again, many interesting photos were submitted as part of Tropentag 2021. We thank all participant for their fantastic contributions! Here are the results:
Category single photo:
1st place: Sarada Thapa. See photos.
2nd place: Toán Nguyen. See photos.
3rd place: Toán Nguyen. See photos.
Category photo stories:
1st place: Shibire Bekele. See photos.
2nd place: Giovanna Chavez. See photos.
2nd place: Inga Nienkerke. See photos.
Some of the winning photos were exhibited in the Botanical garden of the University of Bonn during the summer months of 2022.
The Results of the Photo Competition 2020
At Tropentag 2020, Let's Plant hosted this photo competition for the first time. Many interesting photos were submitted - from over 18 countries and 4 continents! The jury ranked them and the results were presented during Tropentag 2020. We thank all participant for their fantastic contributions! Here are the results:
Category single photo:
1st place: Rex Parro. See photos.
2nd place: Julian Neef. See photos.
3rd place: Sushma Banjara. See photos.
Category photo stories:
1st place: Jakob Scheler. See photos.
2nd place: Teresa Rojas. See photos.
3rd place: Elio Guarionex. See photos.
Some of the winner photos are exhibited in the framework of the project Zeitenwende in the Kottenforest (near Bonn). The exhibition can be reached by this route.
Companies and Organisations, which support this project:
Climate change is one of the biggest problems humanity will have to tackle in the coming years. One of the most appropriate measures to combat global warming is planting trees. Trees have the amazing ability to provide various ecosystem services - and for free! Among other things, they store large amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, clean the air, have a cooling effect on their surroundings through their transpiration, have positive effects on wildlife and biodiversity and provide people with food and oxygen.
It's actually pretty easy, isn't it? You just have to plant more trees! Unfortunately, this awareness has not yet reached everyone. So we want to change that by raising awareness of the importance of planting and reforestation projects. We do this, for example, by convening discussion groups where people can come together and discuss things with one another, organize thematic film presentations, report on various projects such as our planting project in Ethiopia, in regional daily newspapers, at trade fairs and at presentations, carry out campaigns with schools and host an annual photo contest on improving degraded landscapes. Since these actions are often associated with financial outlay, every donation helps to carry the idea and awareness out into the world: Let's Plant!
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