Program

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SATURDAY 22 AUGUST 2009
0900-1700 Registration at World Agroforestry Centre Headquarters

SUNDAY 23 AUGUST 2009
0900-1700 Registration at World Agroforestry Centre Headquarters

OPENING DAY, MONDAY 24 AUGUST 2009

08.30 Opening
Song by School Girls from Bahati Girls Secondary School in Nakuru.
Agroforestry Film

0900 Welcome
Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, United Nations Environmental
Programme

0915 Introducing the Conference Theme: Agroforestry - The Future of Global Land Use
Dennis Garrity, Director General, World Agroforestry Centre

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

1000 Host Country Address: Vice President of the Republic of Kenya, H.E. Hon. Kalonzo Musyoka

1130 Tea/Coffee Break

1200 Keynote address on Congress Theme 1: Agroforestry for an Ever-Green Revolution
MS Swaminathan, Founder, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation

1230 Keynote address on Congress Theme 2: Environmental resilience and agroforestry
Richard Leakey, Chairman, Wildlife Direct

1300 Lunch Break

1400 Keynote address on Congress Theme 3: Key policy issues for agroforestry
Sara Scherr, President, Ecoagriculture Partners

1430 Public-private partnerships and agroforestry
Navin Sharma, ITC, India

1500 Panel discussion
How can agroforestry rise to the challenges?

1630 Tea/Coffee Break and Poster viewing

1700 Technical sessions
Session 1A: Multistrata agroforestry systems with perennial crops
Session 2: Agroforests in humid tropical Africa
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

DAY 2: TUESDAY 25 AUGUST 2009
Theme 1: Food Security and Livelihoods

0900 Opening and speaker introduction

Keynote Address: Food Security and Livelihoods
Food production and the alleviation of poverty and declining livelihoods
Namanga Ngongi, President, Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

0930 Agroforestry for generating income for smallholders
Howard Shapiro, Mars Incorporated

0950 The extent of agroforestry in agricultural landscapes
Richard Coe and Frank Place, World Agroforestry Centre

1030 Tea/Coffee Break and Poster viewing

1100 Simultaneous symposia
Symposium 1: Agroforestry tree-crop value chains
Symposium 2: Domestication of agroforestry tree crops
Symposium 3: Adaptation to Climate Change
Symposium 4: Agroforestry Systems in Africa

1230 Lunch Break
1300 Side Events

1430 Concurrent technical sessions
Session 1B: Multistrata agroforestry systems with perennial crops
Session 3B: Agroforestry in landscape-scale conservation strategies
Session 4: Agroforestry in Mesoamerica: current perspectives and challenges
Session 10: Quantifying the role of agroforestry in modifying watershed functions
Session 21A: Mitigation and adaptation to climate change
Session 24: Integrating disciplines through agroforestry education
Session 25A: Policy formulation and stakeholder engagement in natural resource management

1600 Tea/Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

1630 Concurrent technical sessions
Session 5: Ecological sustainability: Panacea or Pandora's Box?
Session 6: Ecopysicological bases of agroforestry system design
Session 11: Agroforestry for salinity control and land rehabilitation
Session 12: Riparian system effects on soil and water quality
Session 14A: Agroforestry as a tool for landscape restoration
Session 25B: Policy formulation and stakeholder engagement in natural resource management

DAY 3: WEDNESDAY, 26 AUGUST 2009
Theme 2: Conservation and Rehabilitation of Natural Resources

0900 Opening and speaker introduction
Chair: Achim Steiner

Keynote address: Climate Change and Agroforestry
RK Pachauri, Nobel Laureate and Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

0920 Keynote Address: Biodiversity conservation and agroforestry
Gustavo Fonseca, Global Environment Facility

0950 Multi-functional Agriculture and the opportunities for agroforestry
Implications of the International Assessment of Agriculture Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD)
Roger Leakey, James Cook University, Australia

1030 Tea/Coffee Break and Poster viewing

1100 Simultaneous symposia
Symposium 1: Multifunctionality and Ecosystem services
Symposium 2: Land rehabilitation and Landcare
Symposium 3: Temperate Agroforestry systems
Symposium 4: High-carbon stocks development pathways
Symposium 5: Satoyama - A socio ecological production landscape approach to the sustainable use of ecosystem services and human development.

1230 Lunch Break
1300 Side Events

1430 Theme 2 Concurrent technical sessions
Session 9: Silvopastoral Systems: restoring ecosystem functions and productivity
from farms to landscapes
Session 13: Agroforestry in Europe and other temperate regions
Session 14B: Agroforestry as a tool for landscape restoration
Session 15: Biofuel Production Systems
Session 26: Local knowledge in agroforestry science
Session 31A: Rewards for environmental services of agroforestry

1600 Tea/Coffee Break and poster viewing

1630 Theme 2 Concurrent technical sessions
Session 16: Participatory Tree Domestication for land rehabilitation
Session 18A: Agroforestry, climate change and biodiversity conservation
Session 27: The role of underutilized crops for agroforestry
Session 28: Agroforestry based livelihood strategies for smallholders in the Amazon
Session 29: Cabruca agroforestry system of Bahia, Brazil
Session 31B: Rewards for environmental services of agroforestry

DAY 4: THURSDAY, 27 AUGUST 2009
Theme 3: Policy Issues

0900 Opening and speaker introduction
Chair: Jan Heino

Keynote Address
Angela Cropper, Deputy Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme

0930 Policymakers Panel
Marc Dourojeanni, Peru
Frank Place, World Agroforestry Centre

10:30 Tea/Coffee Break and Poster viewing

11:00 Concurrent technical sessions
Session 17: Collective action for tree based rehabilitation of degraded lands
Session 18B: Agroforestry, climate change and biodiversity conservation
Session 20: Agroforestry and environmental amelioration
Session 21B: Mitigation and adaptation to climate change
Room 8: Session 23: Agroforestry and reconciliation ecology
Room 14: Session 30: Socioeconomics, livelihoods, and island and coastal agroforestry

1100: Agroforestry Policy Initiative (Closed session in parallel with technical sessions)

1230 Lunch Break

1300 Side Events

1430 Mini-Symposium - The Way Forward - Energizing the next wave of agroforestry science
Achim Steiner
Dennis Garrity
PK Nair

1600 Tea/Coffee Break

1630 Closing Session and short statements by donors

DAY 5: FRIDAY, 28 AUGUST 2009
Field Trips