Joint Pan-African Grain Legume and World Cowpea Conference 2016
AVANI Victoria Falls Resort and Conference Center
28 February to 4 March 2016
Livingstone, Zambia,
TENTATIVE CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Sunday, 28 February
09:00 – 12:00 hrs Registration and/or Check-In
14:00 – 17:00 hrs “
19:00 hours Welcome Reception and Cocktail (AVANI Victoria Falls Resort)
Monday, 29 February
07:00 hrs Registration and/or Check-In
08:00 hrs Tour and opening of technology market place by Zambia Minister of Agriculture and Livestock and other dignitaries present
09:00 hrs Inauguration of Conference (2hours including a break & group photo)
Invited Dignitaries
- Zambia Minister of Agriculture and Livestock (To be confirmed)
- CCARDESA, Prof. Timothy Simalenga, Executive Director
- FAO/UN, TBD
- USAID, Dr. Robert Bertram, Chief Scientist, Bureau of Food Security
- IITA, Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, Director General
- CIAT, Dr. Ruben Echeverria, Director General
- ICRISAT, Dr. David Bergvinson, Director General
- Michigan State University, Dr. Douglas Buhler, Assoc. Vice President for Research and Dean of College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Dr. Jeff Ehlers
- World Bank, Dr. Eija Pehu, Science Advisor on Agriculture Research and Innovation
10:30 hrs Group Photo and Break
11:00 hrs Inaugural Keynote Presentation: Dr. Yemi Akinbamijo, Executive Director, Forum for Agriculture Research in Africa (FARA) (awaiting confirmation)
12:00 hrs Inaugural Keynote Presentation: Dr. Rob Bertram, Chief Scientist, Bureau of Food Security, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Washington
12:30 hrs Lunch
14:00 hrs Topical Oral Sessions 1- A, B, C & D (Four concurrent topical oral sessions, 120 min.)
Oral Session 1-A: Grain Legume Genomics
Oral Session 1-B: Economics and Grain Legume Value Chains
Oral Session 1-C: Human Nutrition
Oral Session 1-D: Sustainable Intensification of Grain Legume Cropping Systems
16:00 hrs Break
16:30 hrs Topical Oral Session 2- A, B, C & D (four concurrent topical oral sessions; 90 min.)
Oral Session 2-A: Grain Legume Breeding and Genetics
Oral Session 2-B: Gender and Youth
Oral Session 2-C: Sustainable Seed Systems for Grain Legumes
Oral Session 2-D: Plant Pathology
18:30 hrs Poster Session 1-A
Tuesday, 01 March
08:30 hrs Thematic Plenary Session 1: Impact oriented legumes seed systems in Africa: challenges, impacts, lessons learned, and scalable approaches to reach millions of farmers
10:30 hrs Break
11:00 hrs Poster Session 1-B
12:30 hrs Lunch
14:00 hrs Topical Oral Sessions 3- A, B, C & D (four concurrent topical oral sessions, 120 min.)
Oral Session 3-A: Abiotic Stress
Oral Session 3-B: Integrated Pest Management
Oral Session 3-C: Technology Dissemination and Impact
Oral Session 3-D: Biological Nitrogen Fixation
16:00 hrs Break
16:30 hrs Thematic Plenary Session 2: Contemporary topics on role of grain legumes in human health and nutrition (90 min)
Wednesday, 02 March
08:30 hrs Concurrent Plenary Session 3: Ecological approaches to integrated pest management in grain Legumes.
Concurrent Plenary Session 4: Enhancing yield potential and resilience to abiotic stress through genetic improvement of grain legumes
10:30 hrs Break
11:00 hrs Topical Oral Sessions 4-A, B, C & D (four concurrent topical oral sessions; 90 min. each)
Oral Session 4-A: Abiotic Stress
Oral Session 4-B: Value Addition and Processing of Grain Legumes
Oral Session 4-C: Economics, Value Chains and Post-Harvest Handling of Grain Legumes
Oral Session 4-D: Sustainable Intensification of Grain Legume Cropping Systems
12:30 hrs Lunch
14:00 hrs Poster Session 2-A
14:00 hrs Plenary Session: “From seeds to scale and investment to impact: Sharing experiences from USAID legume programming under the Feed the Future Initiative”
15:30 hrs Break
16:00 hrs Concurrent Plenary Session 5: ‘’Transformational gender approaches in legumes research and development: cases of excellence” (90 min)
Concurrent Plenary Session 6: Stress tolerant orphan legumes as a response to predicted climate changes (90 min)
Thursday, 03 March
8:30 hrs Field Trips to local farmer communities and grain legume production sites:
- Community-based Seed Production on cowpea, common beans, etc in Kazungula, Livingstone District (about 1 hour drive from conference venue)
- Commercial Legume Production in Kazungula, Livingstone District (about 1 hour drive from conference venue)
- Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI) Research Station in Choma, south of Livingstone (about 2.5 hours drive from conference venue)
14:00 hrs Side Meeting: Legume Innovation Lab Principle Investigator Meeting with USAID, AVANI Resort
19:00 hrs Gala dinner at AVANI Victoria Falls Resort- Boma
Presentation of Lifelong Achievement Awards for Excellence in Grain Legume Research; TMAC (Legume Innovation Lab) awards to four grain legume scientists
Friday, 04 March
08:30 hrs Poster Session 2-B
09:30 hrs Thematic Plenary Session 7: Grain legume nitrogen fixation and contribution to sustainable intensification
11:00 hrs Break
11:30 hrs Thematic Plenary Session 8: Sustaining legume value-chains through value added processing and public-private partnerships
13:00 hrs Lunch
14:30 hrs Keynote Presentation (TBD)
15:15 hrs – Closing Session of Conference
16:00 hrs
Saturday, 05 March
- Conference attendees depart on mid-day flights
- Side events
Auxiliary activities (safari, Victoria Falls, etc.) for those desiring to extend stay in Zambia
The above program is still tentative. More details will be added and changes effected as we get closer to the conference dates. Please check this page from time to time to keep yourself updated.
Note on abstracts accepted to comprise the conference program
The topical oral and poster presentations that comprise the conference program was developed based on the diversity and balance of high-quality scientific papers submitted by numerous eminent scientists and researchers in the field of grain legume research. Efforts were made to organize oral sessions that will give opportunities to African scientists, focused on diverse grain legume crop species, and presented a diversity of provocative new scientific findings in a particular field of research”. Hence, quite a number of abstracts could not be accommodated in the conference program.
