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| Agropolis Awardee Presentations |
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Where : IDRC Auditorium, 14th Floor - 250 Albert Street
The AGROPOLIS International Graduate Research Awards in Urban Agriculture, administered by the Cities Feeding People Program Initiative at IDRC, was launched in 1998. These awards are intended to support Master’s or Ph.D. level field research in disciplines relevant to urban agriculture. We invite you to attend presentations by 10 award recipients on their research results and impacts. Each presentation will last 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions. Presentations will be in English (E), French (F), or Spanish (S), with simultaneous interpretation (English to French, French to English, Spanish to English and French).
Program | | 09:00 | Mr. Bruce Frayne (E)
Queen’s University, Canada
Survival of the Poorest: Migration and Food Security in Namibia | | 09:30 | Ms. Alice Hovorka (E)
Clark University, USA
Exploring the Effects of Gender on Commercial (Peri-)Urban Agriculture Systems in Gaborone, Botswana | | 10:00 | Ms. Stephanie Gabel (E)
University of British Columbia, Canada
Gender Dimensions of Open Space Cultivation in Harare (Zimbabwe) | | 10:30 | Break | | 10:45 | Mr. Moez Bouraoui (F)
École Nationale du Génie Rurale, des Eaux, et des Fôrets, France
Étude de deux modèles agri-urbains d’aménagement du territoire: Le plateau de Saclay (Paris, France) et la plaine de Sijoumi (Tunis, Tunisie) | | 11:15 | Ms. Adriana Premat (E)
York University, Canada
Moving Between the Plan and the Ground: Shifting Perspectives on Urban Agriculture in Havana, Cuba | | 11:45 - 13:00 | Lunch (free time) | | 13:00 | Mr. Arturo Pérez Vázquez (E)
Imperial College at Wye, UK
The Future Role of Allotments as a Component of Urban Agriculture in England | | 13:30 | Mr. Alejandro Sócorro Castro (S)
Universidad de Cienfuegos, Cuba
Vertical Gardening Combining Organic Techniques for Farming Urban Spaces in Cienfuegos, Cuba | | 14:00 | Mr. Komla Tallaki (E)
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Pest Control System in the Market Gardening of Lomé , Togo | | 14:30 | Break | | 14:45 | Mr. Mody Bakar Barry (E)
Oklahoma State University, USA
Urban Livestock in the “Zone Dense” of Korhogo (Northern Côte d’Ivoire): A Tobit Approach | | 15:15 | Mr. Eduardo Spiaggi (E)
Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
Urban Agriculture and Local Sustainable Development: The Integration of Economic, Social, Technical, andEnvironmental Variables in Rosario, Argentina |
To reserve your seat, please contact Ms. Karen Trébert, at (613) 236 6163 ext. 2309, e-mail: ktrebert@idrc.ca
| | Following this event, the AGROPOLIS program intends to produce a publication which will feature edited versions of many of these papers. For more information on this event or the AGROPOLIS program, visit the AGROPOLIS web site (http://web.idrc.ca/cfp/agrhome.html) or
contact Mrs. Wendy Storey, AGROPOLIS Awards Administrator, tel. (613) 236-6163, ext. 2040, e-mail: AGROPOLIS@idrc.ca. |
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