Carbon and Rural Development
    
within the
4th WSEAS International Conference on
ENVIRONMENT, ECOSYSTEMS and DEVELOPMENT (EED'06)
Venice, Italy, November 20-22, 2006
http://www.worldses.org/conferences/2006/venice/eed/index.html

 

Topics:

The Special Session "Carbon and Rural Development" will focus on the broad context of carbon sequestration and rural development. The Session will address issues on enhancing the carbon sink, reducing vulnerability of land use systems and opening new markets for rural development.
Examples of topics include

• Analysis of carbon sequestration potentials in agro-ecosystems

• New tools and concepts to quantify carbon sequestration in rural areas

• Analysis of interplay between adaptivity, food security and land use in relation to carbon storage

• Role of carbon sequestration within the setting of highly vulnerable livelihoods in developing countries

• Agricultural policies related to carbon sequestration

 

Organizer:

Dr Maria Cristina Amezquita
Carbon Sequestration project CSEQ
Ciat Science Park
Apartado Aereo No. 67-13
CALI – Colombia
Latin America
Phones: (57)-(2) 4450000, ext 3472 and 3277, Fax: (57)-(2)-4450073
M.AMEZQUITA@CGIAR.ORG

Program Committee:

Dr Jan Verhagen, Plant Research International, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Bornsesteeg 65, 6708 PD Wageningen, the Netherlands. Email: adrianus.verhagen@wur.nl

Dr Mark van Wijk, Pant Production Systems Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Haarweg 333, 6709 RZ Wageningen, the Netherlands. Email: Mark.vanWijk@wur.nl

Dr Bram van Putten, Biometris, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Bornsesteeg 47, 6708 PD Wageningen, the Netherlands. Email: Bram.vanPutten@wur.nl

HOW TO SUBMIT:

 

You can submit via the web site of the conference:
please, click here, fill in the web form writing the title of your Session in the appropriate field 

IMPORTANT DATES and MORE INFORMATION FOR THE SESSION:

http://www.worldses.org/conferences/2006/venice/eed/index.html

 

Brief Biography of the Organizer:

Maria Cristina Amezquita is at present the Scientific Director of the international research project entitled “Research Network for the Evaluation of Carbon Sequestration Capacity of Pasture, Agro-pastoral and Agro-silvo-pastoral Systems in the American Tropical Forest Ecosystem”, sponsored by The Netherlands Cooperation and implemented by CIPAV (Cali, Colombia), Universidad de la Amazonia (Florencia, Colombia), CATIE (Turrialba, Costa Rica), CIAT (Cali, Colombia) and Wageningen University and Research Centre (The Netherlands). The project is based at CIAT’s Science Park, Cali, Colombia. Dr. Maria Cristina Amezquita academic background includes a B.Sc. in Mathematics, a M.Sc in Mathematical Statistics with thesis work in Biostatistics, and a Ph.D. in Production Ecology and Resource Conservation. Head of the CIAT’s Biometry Unit from 1980 to 1997, she and her research group provided leadership and advice to a wide range of research projects in research planning, design, analysis and interpretation, both from the natural and social sciences. She was honored with CIAT’s “Outstanding Research Publication Award 1996”. She has served as Consultant to The World Bank in Africa on a short-term basis (Madagascar, Mali and Togo Agricultural Research Missions, 1989-1993), to the British Government at INPA, Manaus, Brazil (1998), to IDB/Colciencias in Colombia (1999-2000), and to various national research institutions and Universities in Latin America. Her main applied research area is tropical pastures, where she has extensively published. Her publications deal with methodological aspects related to tropical pastures and agro-pastoral research: planning, design, research data analysis, interpretation and extrapolation, covering the various research stages, from unilocational to multilocational research, from the assessment of genotype x environment interactions for the selection of promising genotypes, to pasture-animal interactions, and animal production research on beef, milk and dual-purpose cattle production systems in tropical ecosystems. Her main strengths are her multi-disciplinary knowledge and practical research experience on a wide range of scientific disciplines from the agricultural, environmental and social sciences, and her team work capacity.