ECHO East Africa and Canadian Foodgrains Bank Joint Symposium on Best Practices in Sustainable Agriculture & Appropriate Technologies
Presented By: ECHO East Africa and Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Register Before:
August 19, 2024 13:09
Event Contact:
Sophia Kasubi / Faith Juma/ Lilian Zheke/ Erwin Kinsey (skasubi@echocommunity.org / fjuma@echocommunity.org/ lilian.zheke@tearfund.org / lzheke@foodgrainsbank.ca/ ekinsey@echocommunity.org)
Phone: +255764756334/ +255653694903/ +263774740206/ +255764756334
Greetings!..You are cordially invited to join us in this important meeting for learning and sharing best practices of Sustainable Agriculture and Appropriate Technologies.
We will be sharing best practices promoted by different specialists from across the region. It will be an opportunity to network among those working in East and Southern Africa to alleviate poverty, fight against hunger, and improve food security and the overall livelihood of the people we serve.
Presenters welcome: We seek qualified speakers and we are contacting you to offer yourself, or to suggest to us others to share best practices in their work. ECHO EA and Canadian Foodgrains Bank seek speakers whose themes have wide relevance for impacting food security. Both morning plenaries and practical afternoon breakout sessions or panels are sought for poster presentations.
Please join us to find good speakers for this event. We encourage potential speakers to submit the attached speaker form so that we can save their place in the schedule. The format requests 3 sentences of biographical data, a photo, a theme title, and a 3 sentence summary of the presentation.
We hope you will encourage your colleagues and partners in other organizations to attend, and even to offer presentations. Please share with us any contact person(s), name & email & telephone via email or this presenter form, so that we can welcome them either to present, attend, or send participants. Thank you in advance for your support and contributions.
We encourage organizations to support participants, especially from Malawi who are working on the frontlines of rural development to combat hunger, poverty, and malnutrition and to raise standards of living. Please refer this opportunity to people you know or send us any contacts or networks whom you think we should invite. We anticipate this to be a very rich event for all involved.
Event Details
Location
Linde Hotel in Mponela/Dowa
58km north of Lilongwe 30km north of Kamuzu (Lilongwe) International Airport , Malawi
Language
English
Registration
Cost
The registration fee / waiver of $200 covers the costs of the venue for materials, 3 days of lunches, teas, and one evening banquet, but not accommodation or other meals.
*(Speakers will be given a waiver of the registration fee of $200.)
Payment Options
You may pay through ONLINE link or at the DOOR during day one of the symposium.
Lodging
ACCOMMODATION (MPONELA – MALAWI)
- LINDE HOTEL
Deluxe rooms: Malawi Kwacha, MWK 60,000 (Single occupancy) BB
Malawi Kwacha, MWK 75,000 (Double occupancy) BB
Villa rooms: Malawi Kwacha, MWK 95,000 (Single occupancy) BB
Malawi Kwacha, MWK 110,000 (Double occupancy) BB
Family room: Malawi Kwacha, MWK 200,000
Phone: +265(0) 997434875
: +265(0) 884255667
Email: lindemotel@yahoo.com
- CHIKHO HOTEL
Deluxe rooms: Malawi Kwacha, MWK 120,000 (Single occupancy) BB
Malawi Kwacha, MWK 140,000 (Double occupancy) BB
Executive rooms: Malawi Kwacha, MWK 150,000 (Single occupancy) BB
Malawi Kwacha, MWK 170,000 (Double occupancy) BB
Phone: +265(0) 888698180
: +265(0) 999284379
Email: mponela@chikhohotels.com
- THOPE LODGE
Standard rooms: Malawi Kwacha, MWK 15,000 (Single occupancy) BB
: Malawi Kwacha, MWK 20,000 (Double occupancy) BB
Executive rooms: Malawi Kwacha, MWK 20,000 (Single occupancy) BB
: Malawi Kwacha, MWK 25,000 (Double occupancy) BB
Phone: +265(0) 990722600
: +265(0) 880075771
Email: thopelodge2020@gmail.com
Additional Opportunities
Poster Guidelines
Theme: Best Practices in Sustainable Agriculture and Appropriate Technologies
Background
ECHO East Africa and Canadian Foodgrains Bank are jointly convening a Symposium at the Linde Hotel in Mponela, Dowa (north of Lilongwe), Malawi, on Best Practices in Sustainable Agriculture and Appropriate Technologies on the dates 20th – 22nd August, 2024 with a participant goal of 120+ participants. This event will enable three days of sharing by presentations, some practical sessions, an appropriate technology fair, and last day field trips. The Symposium objectives: to share themes/best practices. This event has been stimulated by witnessing a typical myriad of NGOs working in isolation alongside others doing very good work.
ECHO EA and Canadian Foodgrains Bank welcome posters from any participants who would like to present on themes relevant to best practices. They should support or augment the Symposium themes such as the examples listed below, or any relevant themes. Relevant themes are not limited to the following examples – share what is relevant.
General themes: Agroecology, climate smart practices, conservation agriculture, garden techniques in drylands; Nutrition improvement; a Biblical basis to working in communities; reconciliation/peace-making; reducing post- harvest losses; gender, women and girls’ issues.
Emergency guidelines: Best practices in offering relief during times of drought or floods.
Livestock-base themes: animal health services, establishing & improving livestock markets; rural poultry systems & Newcastle disease vaccination; East Coast Fever/Corridor Disease immunization; Ethno-veterinary medicine solutions
Land use, and range-based themes: Holistic management experiences; community natural resource management plans; conservation agriculture in drylands; farmer managed natural regeneration – FMNR; small kitchen gardens
Water-based themes: Water storage by sand dams; water filters; water purification with Moringa seeds; water harvesting at household or community level
Seed and agro-input systems themes: farmer-saved seeds, community seed banks, inputs value chains, transitioning from input aid to market-oriented agro-input systems, seed multiplication options, quality issues, last-mile agro-dealer and seed companies models
Access to finance themes: post-conflict opportunities and challenges, formal and informal institutions, current status, (banks, cooperatives, SACCOs, MFIs, VSLA)
Food processing and value addition: current status (challenges, opportunities, cottage industry, appropriate technologies, food safety and quality,
Desired of those displaying posters:
- Photos & graphs are preferable to excessive text.
- Text should be large enough font to be visible from 2 meters.
- Please include captions to describe photos and graphs.
- Use the English language
- Consult ECHO EA or Canadian Foodgrains Bank staff before setting up your poster on 19th August 2024 or thereafter.
- Be prepared to attend and answer questions at the scheduled poster mini-sessions after lunch on days 2 and 3
Additional Information
We are also happy to announce that we will be offering 20 women participants a waiver / scholarship to attend the event for free based on merit as coming from organizations or situations unable to pay. Spread the news!
*An additional $20 fee for transport and lunch Post-symposium tours may be arranged to agricultural demonstration sites of interest. This will be within an hour's drive from the venue, on the day after the symposium closes for those who can stay.