DÍA 1: Simposio Internacional sobre Investigación Cacaotera. Montpellier 2022.

 FUENTE

Montpellier 4-7 Dec 2022.

DAY 1

8:00 – 9:00 Inscripción

OPENING CEREMONY (Inaugural session)

9:00 – 10:00 Discursos de bienvenida:

• Introduction by Master(s) of Ceremony, Mr. Martijn ten Hoopen
• A representative of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs  (TBC)
• Alcalde u otro Representante del Ayuntamiento de Montpellier
• Michel Arrion – Executive Director (ICCO)
• Elisabeth Claverie de Saint Martin - Presidenta y Directora General (CEO) - CIRAD
• Representante de MUSE (Université de Montpellier d’Excellence)

Platinum/Gold Sponsor 1

Symposium Keynote Speaker – Juan Lucas Restrepo – Director General of the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

11:00 – 11:30 Pausa para café

AUDITORIUM PASTEUR – Plenary session

Session 1 – Cocoa Cultivation: Innovative Approaches and Practices for Sustainable Production

Gold Sponsor 2

Farmer living incomes

11:30 –12:40 ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Christopher L. Gilbert – The impact on farmers of the cocoa Living Income Differential, SAIS Europe, Johns Hopkins University
• Yuca Rosalinde Waarts – How to achieve a living income for different types of cocoa and coffee farming families?, Wageningen University and Research
• Ludovic Temple – Sustainable competitiveness of the cocoa sector in Ecuador: issues of integrated socio-ecological governance, CIRAD
• Maja Slingerland – Standardization of Living Income benchmarking and knowledge gaps in farmer income assessment in cocoa farming. How to proceed?, Wageningen University and Research
• Hammond Mensah – Service delivery models in the West African cocoa sector: is a smart mix able to close the income gap for cocoa farmers in a responsible and sustainable manner?, Solidaridad

Questions

12:40 –14:00 Almuerzo

Soil fertility & fertilizers

14:00 – 16:00 ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Rich Kofi Kofituo – Processes for knowledge transfer and related efficiencies: A case of the CocoaSoils, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
• Lotte Suzanne Woittiez – The CocoaSoils nutrient offtake model: preliminary results from on-farm trials, Wageningen University and Research
• Thomas Fungenzi – Evaluating long term soil organic matter dynamics of cocoa farms in Indonesia, Cranfield University
• Deo-Gratias J. M. Hougni – The role of litter decomposition in nutrient cycling in cocoa, Wageningen University and Research

Questions

• Ekatherina Vasquez – Innovative data collection in collaborative cocoa fertilizer trials, Wageningen University and Research
• Leonard Rusinamhodzi – A stepwise approach to achieve the best agronomic management practices and sustainable fertilizer use in West African cocoa production, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
• Joost van Heerwaarden – Multi-locational nutrient response trials for the development of cocoa fertilizer recommendations, Wageningen University and Research

Questions

16:00 – 16:30 Pausa para café

Keynote Speaker Session 1: Teja Tscharntke, Professor of Agroecology at the University of Göttingen, Germany
Questions

17:10 – 18:00 POSTER SESSION 

DAY 2                                             DAY 3