Photo courtesy Eskil Mattsson
Can Agroforestry Address Food Security Concerns under a Changing Climate?
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together leading scholar-practitioners from five parts of the world, Sweden, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Kenya and Ecuador, to share knowledge of and aspirations for agroforestry systems.
| What | Workshop |
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| When |
Nov 11, 2014 10:00 AM
to Nov 12, 2014 04:00 PM |
| Where | Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Contact Name | Maria Göthberg |
| Contact Phone | +(46) 709 11 66 97 |
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A number of well-established and highly productive agroforestry systems have been documented around the world, and yet they are rarely in the spot light when questions of food security arise.
Climate change presents a number of challenges, particularly to the large scale, commercial farming systems that developed in the twentieth century. Changing temperatures and water regimes are generating new pest problems in mono-culture crop systems, while crops are also increasingly becoming pesticide and herbicide resistant.
As a result, there is a renewed scientific and policy interest in agroforestry systems that rely on diversity and mixed cropping patterns for their productivity. This workshop will probe the possibilities for scaling up agroforestry systems to address the food security needs of the twenty-first century.
Preliminary Programme
11 November Seminar 10.00 - 16.30
from 09.15 am - Registration and coffee
10.00 - Welcome address, Dr. Eskil Mattsson, Chalmers, Sweden
10.15 - Introduction, Secretary General, Håkan Wirtén, WWF, Sweden
10.40 - Agroforestry systems - complex or worse? Assistant professor, Claes Andersson, Chalmers, Sweden
11.20 - Dr. Kamy Melvani, Neo Synthesis Center, Sri Lanka
12.00 - Lunch
13.30 - Dr. Naya Paudel, Forest Action, Nepal
14.10 - Msc. Aliana H Piñero, Runa Foundation, Ecuador
14.50- Coffee
15.20 - Deputy Regional Director, Wangu Mutua, Vi Agroforestry, Kenya
16.00 - Panel discussion
17.00 - Day ends
19.00 - Dinner
12 November Workshop 10.00 - 16.00
Workshop on relevant topics in World Café structure focusing on the following themes:
- - Productivity
- - Martkets and Distribution
- - Tenure and Rights
- - Social Relations
- - Institutions and Governance
- - Agroforestry services and synergies versus segregated systems
- - Research
See Official Poster for further details
Registration:
By invitation only.
Live webcast:
A stream will appear on www.siani.se on November 11th from 10:00 am.
