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DEADLINE for ABSTRACTS IS NOW CLOSED

• The review of abstracts received is in progress. Authors are requested to be patient. A verdict will be communicated to them as soon as the review is completed.

• We will still accept contributions for keynotes that we will invite, or for side events organized by AVRDC, ICIPE or FAO.

GFAR E-News Feature: "Inside Africa's First Global Horticulture Congress"

Published on 4^th Jun 2009

GFAR takes an in-depth look at this exciting event with Dr Norman Looney, Board Chair of the Global Horticulture Initiative, a multi-stakeholder platform for innovation and knowledge sharing in horticulture developed on GFAR’s partnership principles, and President of the International Society for Horticultural Science, co-organizers of the Congress. For full story click here. 

1st ALL AFRICA HORTICULTURE CONGRESS "GROWN UNDER THE SUN", Nairobi, Kenya

We are pleased to announce the 1st All Africa Horticulture Congress to be held August 31-September 3, 2009 at the Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya. The theme of this African horticultural congress is GROWN UNDER THE SUN. 

Congress Objectives

After two years for maturing and several preliminary thoughts and discussions around the concept, Kenya will be hosting the first All Africa Horticulture Congress in 2009. African horticulturists often attending ISHS international events elsewhere have agreed on the need for a specific African event on horticulture: a need for valorizing experiences and achievements through research projects and case studies, a need for expressing constraints and expectations, a needs for coordinating efforts and prospective strategies.

Additional thoughts and debates amongst horticultural stakeholders have convinced them that the whole value chain should be highlighted at the Congress, offering a unique and  regular opportunity for deep and direct exchanges between the diverse partners: academic institutions, public research and development organizations, and business actors who include all types of farmers.

Congress Sub-themes

The themes of this congress will focus broadly on Horticulture for improving livelihoods in Africa, through:

• Food security
• Health
• Environment
• Poverty alleviation/wealth creation
• International horticultural trade.

The format of a congress will allow several research themes to attract sufficient quality speakers and papers to be presented in parallel symposia, not all obligatorily scientific. It will be aimed at bringing consumers and producers together, facilitating researcher-consumer-producer interactions for establishing research and creating a forum for African stakeholders in horticulture to exchange ideas, experiences and design coordinated perspectives. In addition, it is expected to promote and facilitate public-private sector partnerships/linkages in horticulture, to give rise to a forum for dissemination of horticultural research innovations and joint formulation of proposals, and to encourage training and education in the horticulture industry to attract young and skilled entrepreneurs. This congress will also provide information on the trends in horticultural trade, promote consumption of fruits and vegetables within local communities for improved health and promote horticultural production practices that are sustainable and environmentally friendly.

Format

Organizing the All Africa Horticulture Congress is one way of raising the African voice in the International Society of Horticultural Science (ISHS). The Congress will be held at the Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya, from 31 August to 3 September 2009 under the auspices of ISHS and the Global Horticulture Initiative. It will be conducted through plenary sessions, moderated discussion fora, exhibitions, seminars in parallel sessions and field visits. The Scientific Committee will decide on the keynote speakers, themes and conveners of the symposia, workshops or seminars, inviting local, national or regional organizations to meet and debate during such an event, as an incentive for regular issues of the All African Horticulture Congress.

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