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First SOLIBAM Stakeholder Congress
19 - 20 April 2012
Several factors such as a rising world population, a need for greater environmental protection and climate change are increasing the pressure on agricultural systems worldwide. The major concern is how to ensure food security and food quality while maintaining environmental and socio-economic sustainability. The European Union is taking important policy decisions towards the ‘greening’ of agriculture, which are likely to alter considerably the mode of food production in the near future. Yet, are European farmers ready to take on this challenge? We believe that the key to sustaining food production is diversifying the cropping system at multiple levels, e.g. genetic, species and habitat. Such an approach should be translatable into concrete management strategies applicable to various low-input and organic cropping systems across Europe and elsewhere. The objective of the first SOLIBAM Stakeholders Congress is to provide an international forum for discussion amongst relevant stakeholders around four topical themes. A special focus will be to address future research needs based on the available evidence to date in order to prioritize our activities and exploit fully the potential of diversity to shape the agriculture of tomorrow.
Four thematic Sessions and one poster session:
1. Greening of agriculture
Policy focus: Diversity in cropping systems in the context of the CAP reform
2. Climate change, what challenges for breeding and agriculture?
Policy focus: the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2020, the EU Strategy for Climate Change and Energy
3. Cropping systems of the future
Policy focus: the European Framework Directive on Sustainable Pesticide Use
4. Seeds and sustainable use of plant genetic resources
Policy focus: the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the process of revision of seed laws in Europe (Better regulation)
Each session will be organised as follows:
For more information and registration go to the Congress web page.
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Farm days will act as the main tool for the dissemination of project outcomes among farmer communities in each country. They will be held separately in each country twice per year, to enable breeders, farmers, extension services and researchers involved in WPs to share the skills, information, and knowledge generated with neighboring (nonparticipating) farmers.
Farmer days will be used also to distribute booklets from the project and other material from the stakeholder congresses among a large number of farmers, and as a space for discussion of the project results and related topics with farmers.
ITAB will be responsible for the overall coordination of farmer days, selecting the major breeding and agronomic topics that should be discussed and the booklets and materials that should be distributed. National partners will be responsible for the organisation and implementation of farmer days in their country – they will develop a programme of activities, make a list of farmers and breeders to be invited (both participating and nonparticipating in the project), and define logistic arrangements. National partners will also report the outcomes of each farmer day to AIAB for the SOLIBAM newsletters and the website.
Farm days in Italy (June 2010)
SOLIBAM knowledge and technology development in breeding, multiplication and dissemination of crop varieties adapted to low-input agriculture will be conducted with the participation of African partners. (Mali and Ethiopia)
Innovative participatory approaches to technology development, transfer and dissemination (TDTD) will be used for this purpose, including participatory plant breeding (PPB), participatory development of management practices, and associated training. These dissemination will enlarge the public already involved in WP6. These activities will be coordinated by ICARDA, which is a pioneer with extensive experience in PPB in developing countries, in collaboration with CNOP, MU (partners of SOLIBAM) and bodies that that are active in agricultural TDTD: a) national research centres and universities, b) other international and regional organisations (FAO, Bioversity, WARDA, IITA, ICRISAT, ICRAF), local NGOs (e.g. CARE and Prolinnova), and farmers’ associations (e.g. ROPPA). Where they exist, the project will make use of Farmer Field School (FFS) networks and facilities, a group-based participatory learning process used by several governments, NGOs and international agencies, initially to promote Integrated Pest Management (IPM), and later extended to other agricultural research aspects to promote farmer-to-farmer transmission of information to accelerate the diffusion of innovations.
The project will feed scientific and technological outcomes into existing scientific networks, like the Genetic Resources Network for West and Central Africa (GRENEWECA), the East African Plant Genetic Resources Network (EAPGREN) and the ROCARIZ’s Technology Transfer Task Force, and political networks like the Food Security and Food Policy Information Portal for Africa (FSIP) and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).
Each year during the project meeting involved partners will develop the list of TDTD activities and present the major outcomes of the year before.
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Web site last update: 2 February 2012
About Solibam
Project full title
Strategies for Organic and Low-input Integrated Breeding and Management
Collaborative Project
(large-scale integrating project)
FP7 2010 - 2015
This project is supported by the European Commission under the SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME, Collaborative project, Small or medium-scale focused research project. The contents of these pages are the sole responsibility of the publishers. These pages in no way represent the views of the Commission or its service.
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