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These may be the most astonishing posters I have ever seen. Out of the 300 posters displayed during the WCA 2009 at the UN Headquarters in Nairobi from 23rd to 28th of August, the two posters produced by LAYA are unique. They are all handwritten!

Around twenty African journalists, a fraction of more than 100 registered journalists to cover the WCA 2009, arrived earlier in Nairobi last week to attend a media training facilitated by Panos London and Panos East Africa under the support of Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).

Nairobi – 24 August. Adolfo was prompt this morning. Informed that late participants wouldn’t be allowed entrance to the WCA2009 Conference Hall at the UN Compound once President Kibaki is on stage, he had to skip his breakfast to catch the conference bus to depart at 7 a.m. from his downtown hotel.

Arriving in Nairobi on KLM a day before, Adolfo Rosati, an Italian scientist working for the CRA (the government independent council for agricultural research) attended the WCA2009 to find more information about the potential of agroforestry system for the current issue Italy is facing.

Hi .. I am working as the Communication Officer for the World Agroforestry Centre, Southeast Asia Program based in Bogor, Indonesia.

Got ‘recruited’ by Antonella ‘technically’ upon arrival in Nairobi last Friday, but already felt excited to participate in this social reporting.