Moroto, Karamoja, Uganda ECHO Symposium
Presented By: ECHO East Africa
Event Contact:
Sophia Kasubi (skasubi@echonet.org)
A symposium on best practices to improve nutrition and livelihoods in pastoralist areas.
This ECHO Symposium provides a network and training opportunity for those involved in alleviating hunger and poverty in pastoralist areas of East Africa. Three mornings of plenary sessions featuring knowledgeable and experienced speakers would be followed by afternoon workshops and discussion groups led by regional agricultural development workers and experts.
Symposium Dates - 2nd-4th March, 2020
1st March Check-in and Fellowship
2nd -4th March Meeting Days
5th March Check-out and Optional Post Symposium Tours
Event Details
Ubicació
Moroto, Karamoja Uganda
Cost
$175 registration fees of participants to cover three mid-day meals, morning and afternoon teas, a banquet on the closing evening, and all materials. Spouses of a paying delegate are only charged $100 USD equivalent.
Additional Information
Here are typical themes presented at these events:
- Improving nutrition among the most food insecure
- Conservation Agriculture
- Improving markets / value chains
- Climate-smart agriculture in the driest areas in different agri-food systems
- Innovations in water harvesting and gardening practices and techniques
- Livestock practices, remote livestock services,
- Good development practices
- Environmental concerns
- Scaling up, and use of social / mass media