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DAY 3
Dec 7
AUDITORIUM PASTEUR
Parallel session 2 – Sustainable Cocoa and Climate Change: The way forward through Mitigation and Adaptation (Continued)
Climate Smart Cocoa:
8:00 – 10:00 ORAL PRESENTATIONS
- Ebagnerin Jérôme Tondoh – Changes in key soil health indicators in cocoa landscapes around Tene Forest Reserve, Université Nangui Abrogoua
- Andrew James Daymond – A physiological model to quantify impacts of climate change variables on cocoa productivity, University of Reading
- Jean-Michel Harmand – Afforestation of savannah using cocoa agroforestry: impacts on ecosystem services and effects of associated tree species on soil fertility, CIRAD
- Christian Andres– Dynamic agroforestry – a tool for successful smallholder-grown cocoa in times of climate uncertainty, ETH Zurich / Obrobibini Peace Complex
- Johanna Rueegg – Cocoa and by-crop yields in three organic production systems entering mature stage, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)
- Evelyne Marise Assi – Perception of climate change and adaptations of cocoa producers in the Divo production area, Centre National de Recherche Agronomique (CNRA)
- Antoine Kouamé Kouadio – Fish farming as a way for diversifying sources of income in the cocoa sector in Ivory Coast, APDRA Pisciculture Paysanne
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
Social Ecological Interactions and Climate
10:30 – 12:30 ORAL PRESENTATIONS
- Bonna Antoinette Tokou – Accompanying research on strategies for income improvement of farming families and sustainable cocoa production in Côte d’Ivoire” , Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
- Marieke Sassen – Variation in environmental risks from cocoa expansion and intensification in West Africa requires context specific responses, Wageningen University and Research
- Jean Michel Harmand – Path dependency and cocoa landscape dynamics. A Cameroon case study, World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
- Renée Brunelle – Implementing agroforestry systems in cocoa production as climate change adaptation methods – Case study from Ivory Coast, SOCODEVI
- Dietmar Stoian – Diversity, resilience and market orientation: A private-sector driven approach to cocoa agroforestry in Ghana, CIFOR-ICRAF
- Sholahuddin Akbar – Analysis of farmers income on various cocoa intercroping patterns in Indonesia, Indonesian, Coffee And Cocoa Research Institute (ICCRI)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
AUDITORIUM EINSTEIN
Parallel session 3 – Innovations to support the Cocoa Processing & Market Development (Continued)
Origin, Genetics, Quality and flavour evaluation
8:00 – 10:00 ORAL PRESENTATIONS
- Christina Rohsius – Quality of traded raw cocoa: origin specific variation, correlations of quality determining factors and development of a “cocoa quality system, Rausch Management, Cocoa and Research
- Ban Koffi Louis & Mrs Kassi Dorine – Physical, aromatic and sensory evaluation of cocoa beans developed by agricultural research in Côte d’Ivoire and improvement of harvesting activities and quality of cocoa beans during primary processing activities – Centre National de Recherche Agronomique (CNRA)
- Ariza Budi Tunjung Sari – Virgin cocoa butter from modified cocoa bean processing, Indonesian, Coffee And Cocoa Research Institute (ICCRI)
- Dolores Ixmucané Alvarado Rupflin – Development of cocoa physical reference samples for training and calibration of sensory evaluation panels: perspectives from a range of food products, Cocoa of Excellence, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
- Fernando Antonio Teixeira Mendes – First sensory map of cocoa almonds in the State of Pará, Brazil, CEPLAC
- Andrew Meter – Relationship between flavour attributes and quality of cocoa liquor samples: developing a machine learning model to generate global quality scores, Cocoa of Excellence, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
- Lisa Ullrich – Decoding the fine flavour properties of dark chocolates, Zurich – University of Applied Sciences
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
Cadmium
10:30 – 12:30 ORAL PRESENTATIONS
- Gideon Ramtahal – The effect of soil and foliar Zn and Mn application on the uptake of Cd levels in cacao grown on Cd-rich soils, Cocoa Research Centre
- Erik Smolders – Is chocolate consumption truly enhancing dietary cadmium intake in the general population? A Belgian consumption survey, KU Leuven
- Carlos Alberto Adarme Duran – Ureolytic bacteria that induce carbonate precipitation from cocoa farms in Santander, Colombia: cadmium distribution, isolation and application of rhizobacteria, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Francisco Miguel Menendez-Burns – Metal Transporters involved in Cd uptake and distribution in cacao: gene function, evolution, and expression, Penn State University
- Eduardo Francisco Chavez – Agronomic countermeasures for reducing cadmium (Cd) uptake in cacao plantations in Ecuador, Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (ESPOL)
- Caleb Lewis – Understanding cadmium accumulation in cacao and its implications for developing tools for mitigation of cadmium in cocoa beans, Cocoa Research Centre and Department of Life Sciences
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
AUDITORIUM PASTEUR – Plenary Session
Gold Sponsor 3
14:00 – 15:30 Presentation of session reports
15:30 – 16:30 Discussions
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 18:00 Closing Remarks of the 2nd ICSR, suggestions for the next ISCR
