The Congress welcomes institutions and agencies to organize their own side event at the 2nd World Congress of Agroforestry. The timings for the side events have changed; please note that the side events will be scheduled at lunchtimes from Monday 24 August to Thursday 27 August. Please see the schedule below for timings and venue of your side event. The venues are subject to change.
Side Events will be for a maximum of 90 min.
Side events will be held in rooms that can accommodate 30-40 people. There is no extra charge for registered participants who organize and hold a side event.
If you are interested in organizing a side event, kindly contact the secretariat at wca2009@cgiar.org with ‘Side Event' in the subject line. Provide the full contact address, the title of the side event, a short description of not more than 100 words, and the key contact person for the side event. The Secretariat shall schedule these with a timing and venue for your side event. Side events will not be mentioned in the Congress programme unless full information regarding the side event is provided to the secretariat by 5 August 2009.
| WCA 2009 PRE CONGRESS AND SIDE EVENTS |
| Title of Event |
Contact Person |
Time* |
Room (are subject to change, please check programme for final) |
| PRE CONGRESS EVENTS |
| CTA Pre Congress Event |
G. Rambaldi (CTA) and J. Beniest (World Agroforestry Centre |
Fri 21 and Sat 22 Aug |
Board Room-World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Campus |
| GIS-based software: Location intelligent information systems |
John Corbett - AWhere/World Agroforestry Centre |
Wed 19 and Thurs 20 Aug |
Board Room-World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Campus |
| Side Events - 25 to 27 August |
| Tuesday August 25 - Food Security and Livelihoods |
| NaturallyAfrican : Bringing Together Africa's Natural Products Sector More: website |
Elliot Masters, Naturally African Products Platform; |
1330 |
Room 14 |
| Conservation Agriculture with Trees |
Dennis Garrity, World Agroforestry Centre, FAO, African Conservation Tillage Network |
1300 |
Room 9 |
| Update on CGIAR Reform Process |
Tony Simons-World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Bruce Scott-International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) |
1330 |
Room 8 |
Technology Transfer for Small Farmers and Private Woodland Owners - A North-South Exchange
Side event-Technology Transfe Exchange for farmers-r side event 8-25 |
Fulbert Namwamba - Southern University and A&M college
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1300 |
Room 10 |
| Soil Enlightenment: A study tour of the World Agroforestry Centre's Soil-Plant Spectral Diagnostics Laboratory |
Keith Shepherd - World Agroforestry Centre |
1300 |
Meet outside Conference Room 1 to go to the Soils Laboratory - World Agroforestry Centre** |
| World Agroforestry Centre- Amazon Publications' Launching - ICRAF-Amazon invites participants working or interested in Latinamerican issues to gather for the launching of recent publications related to the agroforestry agenda in the Amazon region: Agroforestry Alternative in the Transforming Amazon; Guide for Carbon Measurement at Smallholdings, Amazon Agroforestry Bibliographic Database (1980-2009), and Amazonian Agroforestry, the quarterly newsletter of ICRAF-Amazon. |
Roberto Porro, World Agroforestry Centre, Brazil |
1300 |
Room 11 |
| Producing Timber Abundantly, Efficiently and Sustainably, Agroforestry Revolution Changes Lives of an Entire Area in Northwest India |
Surindar Singh Hara - Agroforester, Hara Farms, Haryana India |
1300 |
Room 13 |
| An Environmental Approach to Water and Food Security for Rural Communities in Semi-arid Eastern Kenya: Sand dams, Trees, and Drought-resistant Crops. |
Jacob Stern - Excellent Development Kenya |
1300 |
Room 14 |
| Wednesday August 26 - Conservation and Rehabilitation of Natural resources |
| Information sharing to global forest community |
Eero Mikola -Global Forest Information Service - GFIS |
1330 |
Room 10 |
| Interactive agricultural information system: Weather surfaces |
John Corbett & Mick O'Neill |
1300 |
Room 7 |
| Innovative Partnership for Sustainable Land Management |
Mohamed Bakarr - Global Environment Facility (GEF) |
1300 |
Room 8 |
| Landcare |
Delia Catacutan, Joseph Tanui, World Agroforestry Centre |
1300 |
Room 9 |
| Measuring plant water use using the HRM Sap Flow Meter |
Catherine Muthuri - Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) |
1300 |
Room 10 |
| World Forests, Society and Environment (WFSE) of IUFRO Policy Brief Launch. |
Peter Minang, World Agroforestry Centre |
1300 |
Room 13 |
| How Hot New Mexico Chile Peppers Fired Up My Project Management |
Richard Phillips - Director, Project Management Office - New Mexico State University, USA
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1300 |
Room 12 |
| Methodology for avoided deforestation for the Voluntary Carbon Standard |
Dirk Kloss, Managing Director, Terra Global Capital |
1300 |
Room 14 |
| Thursday August 27 - Policies and Institutions |
| Agroforestry Models |
Meine van Noordwijk, World Agroforestry Centre |
1330 |
Room 13 |
| Agroforestry Producing Differently - DVD presentation in French with subtitles in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Duration is 65 minutes |
Fabien Liagre and Christian Dupraz - AGROOF |
1300 |
Room 11 |
| Information Communication Management to improve farmers'' benefits from agroforestry research programs |
Oumy Khaïry Ndiaye (CTA/PANOS /ANAFE /World Agroforestry Centre) |
1300 |
Room 7 |
| How Hot New Mexico Chile Peppers Fired Up My Project Management |
Richard Phillips - Director, Project Management Office - New Mexico State University, USA
|
1300 |
Room 8 |
| "São Paulo State´s Agricultural Research and potential agriculture cultures for Agroforestry Systems in Brazil " |
Maria Teresa Vilela Nogueira Abdo - Brazil |
1300 |
Room 9 |
| Locating Indigenous People's Rights in Mitigating Climate Change Impacts on Agroforest Landscapes |
SAMDHANA, AMAN and the World Agroforestry Centre |
1300 |
Room 10 |
| Ecoagriculture Partners: Mobilizing Action Together |
Sara J. Scherr, President, Ecoagriculture Partners & Louise Buck, Ecoagriculture Partners/Cornell University |
1300 |
Room 14 |
| The Potential of Faidherbia to enhance food crop farming systems in Africa |
Henry Phombeya-Malawi, Kirosmele Hadgu-Ethiopia, Larwanou-African Forest Forum |
1300 |
Room 4 |
| A Film to Understand the Issues of Agroforestry Today-DVD(tbc) |
Luisa Nunes - Portugal |
1300 |
Room 13 |
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| *The time available for side events is 90 minutes. Side event organizers can allocate time for their side event within this period as per their convenience. The room allocated will be available for that entire 90 minutes. |
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| **Special arrangements will be provided to participants wanting to attend this side event, kindly send your confirmation of participation in this side event to Keith Shepherd ( k.shepherd@cgiar.org ) |
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The Congress venue is the United Nations Office in Nairobi (UNON) Complex in Gigiri, Nairobi.
