Day 1

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Opening Day: Monday, 24th August 2009
0700   Buses depart from hotels to UN conference facilities
    Plenary Symposium on Agroforestry – The Future of Global Land Use
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0830   Opening
    Song by School Girls from Bahati Girls Secondary School in Nakuru.
   

Trees for Life: A story of agroforestry in Malawi
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0900   Welcome
   

Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, United Nations Environmental Programme
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0915   Introducing the Conference Theme Agroforestry – The Future of Global Land Use
   

Dennis Garrity, Director General, World Agroforestry Centre

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0930   Keynote address
    Nobel Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai, Green Belt Movement

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1000   Host Country Address
   

H.E Hon. Kalonzo Musyoka Vice President Republic of Kenya (on behalf of the President of the Republic of Kenya, H.E. Hon. Mwai Kibaki
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1015   Tea/Coffee Break (posters are set up)
1100   Keynote address on Congress Theme 1: Agroforestry for an ever-green revolution
   

MS Swaminathan, Founder, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
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1130  

Keynote address on Congress Theme 2: Environmental resilience and agroforestry

    Richard Leakey, Chairman, Wildlife Direct
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1200   Keynote address on Congress Theme 3: Key policy issues for agroforesty
   

Sara Scherr, President, Ecoagriculture Partners
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1230   Public-private partnerships and agroforestry
   

Navin Sharma, ITC, India
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1330   1500 Side Events
1500 – 1630   Panel discussion
   

How can agroforestry rise to the challenges?
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Jan Heino, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

  1. Coosje Hoogendoorn, Director General, INBAR
  2. Ambika Upadhyay, ITC, India
  3. Nyaga Mwai, Dairy Goat Association of Kenya
  4. Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (tbc)
  5. Erick Fernandes, World Bank (tbc)

Moderator : Ravi Prabhu (UN-REDD)

1630 – 1700   Tea/Coffee Break and Poster viewing
1700 – 1830   Technical sessions
Session 1A   Multistrata agroforestry systems with perennial crops
     
Session 2:   Agroforests in humid tropical Africa
  Agroforests-Asia-Africa.ppt
Agroforests-Session2-Intro.ppt
communication_wca_nairobi.ppt
Nairobi_Agroforets-CI_Adou-Yao & al-2009.ppt
WCA2 Nairobi 2009 oral communication Jagoret et al.ppt
WCA2_Lamanda.ppt
     
Session 3A:   Agroforestry in landscape-scale conservation strategies
     
Session 7:   Integrating genomics in agroforestry
     
Session 8:   Dryland agroforestry research and development
     
Session 19:   Carbon sequestration in agroforestry systems
     
Session 22   Nutrient cycling and biological dinitrification fixation in agroforestry systems
     
1900   Welcome Cocktail at World Agroforestry Centre Headquarters