| PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME Wednesday, 21 January 2009 9:00 – 9:30 Registration – Accreditation of participants 9:30 – 10:30 Opening Session: Welcome by WAFLA, UNCCD, ECLAC. Guest speaker: Representative of the Chilean government 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break Seminar 1: Desertification & Climate Change: Impact on the Drylands of Latin America 11:00 – 11:20 Geographical analysis of climate change, desertification and impacts on environment and livelihoods in the semi/arid and arid regions. Keynote speaker: Dr. Marc Bied Charreton, General Secretary of the scientific desertification committee in France. 11:20 – 11:40 Tools and or methods for evaluation of desertification and livelihoods. Sergio Zelaya, UNCCD. Seminar 2 : Improved Agroforestry Systems and Integrated Management of Water Resources 11:40 – 12:00 Latin America Joint Arid-Agroforestry /Water Management Guidelines. Ms. Leonellha Barreto TTZ, Germany. 12:00 – 12:20 Design and management of AF systems for management of water resources sub/humid, arid and semi/arid regions. M.Ibrahim, CATIE, Costa Rica. 12:20 – 12:40 Best Practices for conservation of water resources in sub/humid, arid and semi/arid regions. F. Forest, CIRAD, France Seminar 3: Results of the WAFLA Co-Ordination Action: Lessons Learned 12:40 – 13:40 Lessons learned from successful or candidate Agroforestry systems: Social, economic and environmental impacts. Sub/humid tropics: ACICAFOC-CATIE, Costa Rica; Semi/arid: CIEZA-UNEFM, Venezuela; Arid: CIZA-UNALM, Peru. 13:40 – 15:00 Lunch 15:00 – 15:20 Socio-economic analysis of barriers for mainstreaming Agroforestry systems in Arid and semi/arid regions. A. Pipenstock, FAA, Bolivia. 15:20 – 15:40 Market information systems and value chains for agroforestry products. CIAT, Colombia. 15:40 – 16:00 Policies and incentive mechanisms for implementation of Agroforestry systems in sub/humid, semi/arid and arid regions of Latin America. ACICAFOC, Costa Rica, V. Rojas. 16:00 – 16:20 Technological packages for agroforestry systems in sub/humid, semi/arid and arid regions. CESTA, El Salvador. 16:20 – 16:40 Coffee Break 16:40 – 17:00 Strategies of dissemination and extension for local farmers: bringing agroforestry and water management to the arid and semi/arid areas of Latin America. EAN Santiago. 17:00 – 17:20 Institutional networks and local capacity building for mainstreaming agroforestry systems. DeSdelChaco, Paraguay. 17:20 – 17:40 Research related to agroforestry and water management in dry regions in Latin America. Recommendations of development. 17:40 – 18:00 Scientific Paper 1 18:00 – 18:20 Scientific Paper 2 18:30 Welcome Cocktail and artistic performance Thursday, 22 January, 2009 Presentation of Selected Papers 9:00 – 9:20 Scientific Paper 3 9:20 – 9:40 Scientific Paper 4 9:40 – 10:00 Scientific Paper 5 10:00 – 10:20 Scientific Paper 6 10:20 – 10:40 Scientific Paper 7 Emerging Issues (I) 10:40 – 11:00 Greening the drylands through agroforestry for sustainable biofuel production. Dr. Krishna Murthy, Universidad de Chapingo, Mexico. 11:00 - 11:20 Coffee break Selected Papers(cont’d) 11:20 – 11:40 Scientific Paper 8 11:40 – 12:00 Scientific Paper 9 12:00 – 12:20 Scientific Paper 10 12:20 – 12:40 Scientific Paper 11 Emerging Issues (II) 12:40 – 13:00 Market mechanisms for compensating farmers for carbon sequestration in AF systems, L. Pedroni, World Bank and CATIE staff. 13:00 – 15:00 Lunch Selected papers (cont’d) 15:00 – 15:20 Scientific Paper 12 15:20 - 15:40 Scientific Paper 13 15:40 – 16:00 Scientific Paper 14 16:00 – 16:20 Scientific Paper 15 16:20 – 16:40 Coffee break 16:40 – 17:00 Scientific Paper 16 17:00 – 17:20 Scientific Paper 17 17:20 – 17:40 Scientific Paper 18 17:40 – 18:00 Scientific Paper 19 Friday, 23 January, 2009 9:00 – 9:20 Scientific Paper 20 9:20 – 9:40 Scientific Paper 21 9:40 – 10:00 Scientific Paper 22 10:00 – 11:00 Panel Discussion: Value Chains for Eco/friendly agroforestry products. Panelists: UNCCD, Global Mechanism, ECLAC. Moderator: WAFLA. 11:00 – 11:20 Coffee Break 11:20 – 12:00 Scientific Paper 23 12:00 – 12:20 Scientific Paper 24 Conclusion: Results of the WAFLA Co-Ordination Action: Lessons Learned 12:20-12:40 Synthesis of WAFLA achievements, recommendations for future research, technology development and cooperation strategies. Dipl. L. Barreto-Dillon MSc, TTZ. 12:40-13:00 Closing Session: Final words by WAFLA, ECLAC. Guest speaker: Representative of the EU Delegation in Chile. 13:00-13:30 Farewell Wine of honour |
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