Conferences
20–25 May 2019, Montpellier, France
The Fourth World Congress on Agroforestry
The Montpellier Congress’ theme is: "Agroforestry - Strengthening links between science, society and policy".
The Montpellier Fourth World Congress on Agroforestry will address a wide range of key agroforestry research issues, gathering facts and figures from developing and developed countries and supporting a collaborative effort with broad social participation. World-known keynote speakers have been invited to make sure that today’s important agroforestry research questions are all addressed. The Congress will feature a variety of stakeholders to foster social interactions and special attention will be given to vulnerable countries and populations. The overall objective of the Congress is to contribute to the strengthening of agroforestry science and practice in order to provide opportunities for further developing links between science, society and policy and to bridge the science-policy gap.
Programme
The congress will feature plenary and parallel discussion sessions, covering a range of topics, including:
- Agroforestry (AF) and Climate change • AF and poverty alleviation / food security • Successes and failures in AF • AF and desertification / land degradation / soil restoration • AF germplasm • Gender in AF • AF, agroecology and ecosystem services • AF in public policies • AF and the migration challenge • AF and job creation / green growth • AF and business / private sector / finance • Socio-Economics of AF • AF and value chains • AF and eco-certification • AF and biodiversity conservation • Design and adoption of AF • Scaling up AF innovations • Smallholder AF • AF for water quality and watershed restoration • AF landscapes • Silvopastoral systems • Biophysical modelling of interactions in AF • Pests, diseases and weeds in AF • Tree pollarding • Mediterranean AF • AF on islands • Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration • Evergreen agriculture • Perennial crops AF • Cereals and annual crops AF • Root issues in AF • Urban and peri-urban agroforestry • AF Mapping •
Important dates
- One line registration: as from September 2018
- Abstract submission: from June 2018 to the end of October 2018
- Abstracts acceptance: until 21 December 2018
- Early bird registration: until 15 February 2019
