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*CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*

*for sustainable production intensification*


Dear Subscribers,


Please see herebelow a self-explanatory message from Dennis Garrity
regarding the Southern Africa Regional ‘Beating Famine Conference’ in
Lilongwe, Malawi on 14-17 April, 2015. The announcement is attached.



*Amir Kassam *

*Moderator*

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Garrity, Dennis (ICRAF) <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:02 AM
Subject: Southern Africa Regional ‘Beating Famine Conference’ in Lilongwe,
Malawi on 14-17 April, 2015
To: Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: Saidi Mkomwa <[log in to unmask]>

 Dear Amir and Saidi,

We want to inform all colleagues in the Conservation Agriculture community
that the World Agroforestry Centre and World Vision are planning to convene
a Southern Africa Regional ‘Beating Famine Conference’ in Lilongwe, Malawi
on 14-17 April, 2015.

We see this as a landmark event to emphasize the crisis of widespread land
degradation in southern Africa in the face of climate change, and how this
could impact food security in the region. We envision that the conference
will highlight the impact of key agricultural and land management practices
in addressing these challenges, particularly through such practices as
conservation agriculture and agroforestry.

We are bringing together high-level policy makers and practical field
experts, and aim to ensure that proven grass-roots solutions combine with
enabling institutions. We expect the President of Malawi to open the event,
and to have world-class professionals speaking on food security challenges
and practical opportunities for application across the region. We expect
250+ delegates, with capacity for more, given the venue we have secured for
this landmark occasion. The Africa Union and FAO have indicated strong
interest in being engaged in the conference.

The conference will be a successor to the highly successful Beating Famine
Conference that was held in Nairobi in April 2012. That meeting served as a
catalyst for a great deal of tangible action and organizational
collaboration across East Africa to address food security, resilience and
livelihood issues and opportunities. Following the conference a number of
NGOs incorporated land regeneration practices into their programs
(particularly farmer-managed natural regeneration and evergreen
agriculture) and governments examined their policies to find ways of
creating enabling environments for uptake of these practices.  We expect
even better outcomes for this conference, given the interest and
participation from the AU, the African Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance,
other international organizations, governments, donors and the NGO
community.

Attached is a brief conference announcement for distribution.

With my warmest regards,

Dennis



Dennis Garrity

UN Drylands Ambassador                                   UNCCD.int

Senior Fellow, World Agroforestry Centre   WorldAgroforestry.org
<http://worldagroforestry.org/>

Chair, EverGreen Agriculture Partnership    EverGreenAgriculture.net
<http://evergreenagriculture.net/>

Chair, Landcare International
LandcareInternational.net <http://landcareinternational.net/>



UN Avenue, Nairobi, Kenya

Mobile: +254 722 521204 <+254%20722%20521204>

Skype: garrity.d

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