To participate in the Africa Agriculture GIS Week (AAGW) 2010 please register by sending an email to:
registrations@africaagricultureGISweek.org
If you would like to make a presentation, you have to submit a proposal to:
info@africaagricultureGISweek.org
The call for presentations is available for download here: 2ndCallforPresentations
Deadline for submissions has been extended to April 30th, 2010
Format
The AAGW 2010 will be structured in exhibition stands, training sessions, poster sessions and facilitated discussion sessions with interactive modes of sharing the activities, focusing on the experiences and lessons learned.
Presentations can also be in the form of demos of innovative applications: the AAGW will include a section called “Show me your where” : a market place where dedicated space will be available to show GIS applications.
Prize
A small financial prize will be awarded to the best presentation in the following categories:
- first time presenters (including students, young professionals)
- most innovative idea
- most innovative medium for delivery the presentations
- overall best
Themes
Specific themes will include:
- Food Security Crises and Responses
- Enhancing Value Chains (e.g., market access, input and commodity market information systems, data collection/dissemination innovations)
- Raising Farm and Farmer Productivity (e.g., improved seeds, production systems, soil and water productivity, labour use)
- Gender: better understanding roles and improving equity
- Climate change impacts & opportunities; Mapping potential impacts and opportunities (e.g., carbon sequestration potential and certification)
- ICT’s transforming the agricultural sector: Solutions to benefit farmers
- Tunneling distant markets to villages: high-value crops, agro-tourism, carbon, organic agriculture, …
- Taking “Map Kibera” out to the field (next generation mapping of African agricultural infrastructure)
- Agri-geobusiness incubators: promoting African public-private partnerships that generate revenues from spatial intelligence
- Nutrition landscape design: marketing African produce (e.g. with certified geographical origin labels) to alter consumption pattern.
- Agriculture transforming landscapes; land use change (inc biofuels), vegetation and biodiversity
Language
Applications should be submitted in English.
