Day 1 (Tuesday, 20 FEB)
DETAILED AGENDA OF THE CONFERENCE
R1: Room #1 (First floor of Wallace building); R2: Room #2 (Third floor of Wallace building).
Parallel sessions have the same number (to be developed at the same time in different rooms).
| TIME | PRESENTER AND COUNTRY | TITLE AND INSTITUTION | ROOM |
| 6:00-7:30 am | Breakfast | Cafetería | |
| 7:00-8:00 am | REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS | Hall. Wallace building | |
| OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE | |||
| 8:00-8:30 am | Rolando Cerda. Bolivia; Claudia Sepúlveda. Colombia-Costa Rica | Opening: Director general of CATIE and President of AFTA board Objectives/Methodology/Logistics: CATIE and AFTA Master of ceremony: Katie Modic, CATIE | Room #1 |
| 8:30-9:00 am | Eduardo Somarriba. Nicaragua-Costa Rica; Hannah Hemmelgram. USA | Keynote speakers: Overview of tropical and temperate Agroforestry in the Americas. CATIE and AFTA. Facilitator: Luis Orozco Aguilar | Room #1 |
| 9:00-9:30 am | Muhammad Ibrahim. Guyana-Costa Rica | Keynote speaker: Silvopastoral systems as a tool for the sustainable intensification of livestock production. CATIE. Facilitator: Luis Orozco Aguilar | Room #1 |
| 9:30-10:00 am | Coffee break and Networking Official Photo of the Conference | ||
| SESSION 1.R1.: AGROFORESTRY WITH PERENNIAL CROPS Facilitator: Marney Isaac | |||
| 10:00-10:30 am | Fabio Da Matta. Brazil | Keynote speaker: Eco-physiological responses of perennial crops to climate change: the role of agroforestry systems. Brazilian Consortium for Coffee Research and Development. | Room #1 |
| 10:30-10:40 am | Oelbermann, M. Canada | Assessing the benefits of temperate agroforestry in enhancing carbon sequestration. University of Waterloo. | Room #1 |
| 10:40-10:50 am | Osei, A, K. Canada | Impact of freeze-thaw cycles on greenhouse gas emissions in marginally productive agricultural land under different perennials bioenergy crops. University of Waterloo. | Room #1 |
| 10:50-11:00 am | Haggar, J. UK | Does carbon sequestration in coffee agroforestry systems compensate for agronomic greenhouse gas emissions? University of Greenwich. | Room #1 |
| 11:00-11:15 am | Facilitator | Questions/answers | Room #1 |
| 11:15-11:25 am VIRTUAL | Edelstein, C. P Brazil | Effect of functional diversity on ecosystem services in cocoa agroforestry systems. CATIE. | Room #1 |
| 11:25-11:35 am | Nichols, I. and Munsell, J. USA | Determining the impact of traditional cocoa farms on mammal communities in Central Africa. Virginia Tech. | Room #1 |
| 11:35-11:45 am | Vitalis, T. USA | Effect of Defoliation Management on Establishment and Performance of Volunteer Native Warm-season Grass Seedlings in Field Alleys. VSU. | Room #1 |
| 11:45-12:00 md | Facilitator | Questions/answers | Room #1 |
| SESSION 1.R2.: SILVOPASTORAL SYSTEMS Facilitator: Felipe Peguero | |||
| 10:00-10:10 am | Sánchez, T. Cuba | Potencialidades de los sistemas silvopastoriles para la producción bovina en Cuba. Estación Experimental de Pastos y Forrajes Indio Hatuey, Universidad de Matanzas. | Room #2 |
| 10:10-10:20 am VIRTUAL | Greene, H. USA | Silvopasture offers climate change mitigation and profit potential for farmers in the eastern United States. Propagate & The Nature Conservancy. | Room #2 |
| 10:20-10:30 am | Karki, U. USA | Use of Small Ruminants to Reduce the Fuel Build-Up in Woodlands. Tuskegee University, Alabama. | Room #2 |
| 10:30-11:00 am | Facilitator | Questions/answers | Room #2 |
| 11:00-11:10 am | Esparza-Harris, K. USA | Adaptive Strategies of Pastoral and Agricultural Communities for Management of Livestock Grazing Systems in the Commons of Senegal. Center for Agroforestry-University of Missouri. | Room #2 |
| 11:10-11:20 am | Andrade, H. Colombia | Carbon footprint in livestock farms with conventional management and silvopastoral systems in Jalisco, Chiapas and Campeche (México). Facultad de Ingeniería Agronómica, Universidad del Tolima. | Room #2 |
| 11:20-11:45 am | Facilitator | Questions/answers | Room #2 |
| 12:00-1:30 pm | Lunch and short ceremony of AFTA AWARDS | Cafeteria | |
| SESSION 2.R2.: AGROFORESTRY WITH PERENNIAL CROPS Facilitator: Fabio Da Matta | |||
| 1:30-2:00 pm | Marney E. Isaac. Canada | Keynote speaker: Shade tree trait diversity in agroforestry systems: Which traits matter? University of Toronto. | Room #2 |
| 2:00-2:10 pm | Saj, S. France | Seasonal pruning of associated trees affects cocoa production in agroforestry systems differently from the SysCom long-term. FiBL. | Room #2 |
| 2:10-2:20 pm | Orozco, L. Nicaragua | CacaoFIT: the Network of Cacao Field Trials in Latin America and its contribution to sustainable cacao farming in the region. CATIE. | Room #2 |
| 2:20-2:30 pm | Vijayakumar, S. Canada | Verifying soil organic carbon sequestration of C4 perennial biomass crops using 13C natural abundance technique in southern Ontario. University of Guelph. | Room #2 |
| 2:30-2:45 pm | Facilitator | Questions/answers and discussions | Room #2 |
| 2:45-2:55 pm | Moore, S.D.USA | Environment Affects Performance and Fruit Yields of Diverse American Elderberry Genotypes. University of Missouri. | Room #2 |
| 2:55-3:05 pm | De Melho. Brazil; Haggar, J. UK | Findings and technical guidelines from 23 years of research in a coffee agroforestry trial. CATIE and University of Greenwich. | Room #2 |
| 3:05-3:15 pm | Cerda, R. Bolivia | Cacao productivity in modern agroforestry systems: results from their establishment to their plenty production stage. CATIE | Room #2 |
| 3:15-3:30 pm | Facilitator | Questions/answers, and discussions and session remarks | Room #2 |
| Session 2.R1.: SILVOPASTORAL SYSTEMS Facilitator: Cristobal Villanueva | |||
| 1:30-2:00 pm VIRTUAL | René Pinto R. México | Keynote speaker: Contribution of silvopastoral systems for biodiversity conservation and generation of ecosystem services. UNACH | Room #1 |
| 2:00-2:10 pm | Pulido, A Colombia | Tree Cover Dynamics in Mexican Cattle Ranching Areas: A Multitemporal Analysis. CATIE | Room #1 |
| 2:10-2:20 pm | Ku Vera, J.C. México | Mitigation of enteric methane emissions in silvopastoral systems with ruminants. Laboratorio de Cambio Climático y Ganadería; FMVZ-UADY. | Room #1 |
| 2:20-2:30 pm VIRTUAL | Valencia Trejo, M. México | Investigación participativa: selección de arbóreas y arbustivas para el establecimiento de sistemas agroforestales y silvopastoriles. Colegio de Postgraduados. | Room #1 |
| 2:30-2:45 pm | Facilitator | Questions/answers, and discussions | Room #1 |
| 2:45-2:55 pm VIRTUAL | Lara Bueno, A. México | Efecto de la época del año en el perfil mineral en suero sanguíneo de bovinos en un sistema silvopastoril intensivo. Universidad Autónoma de Chapingo. | Room #1 |
| 2:55-3:05 pm | Tweardy, E. USA | Appalachian Sustainable Development, United States. Shenandoah Permaculture Institute. | Room #1 |
| 3:05-3:30 pm | Facilitator | Questions/answers, and discussions and session remarks | Room #1 |
| 3:30-4:00 pm | Coffee break and POSTER EXHIBITION 30 minutes POSTERS TO BE DISPLAYED: Silvopastoral Systems and Perennial crops | ||
| Session 3.R1.: AGROFORESTRY SOFTWARE AND APPS Facilitator: Luis Orozco Aguilar | |||
| 4:00-4:10 pm | Wolz, K. USA | Geospatial Data Fusion to Enhance Agroforestry Adoption. The Savanna Institute. | Room #1 |
| 4:10-4:20 pm | Kopecky, M.J. USA | Soil health in agroforestry systems: A new tool for evaluating and monitoring soil health in temperate and tropical forest lands. USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Services. | Room #1 |
| 4:20-4:30 pm | Facilitator | Questions/answers, and discussions | Room #1 |
| 4:30-4:40 pm | Alarcon de Anton, M. Spain | Assessing the performance of tropical and temperate agroforestry designs using the FarmTree Tool: Examples from Latin America. FarmTree B.V. | Room #1 |
| 4:40-4:50 pm | Somarriba, E. Nicaragua-Costa Rica | ShadeMotion software: tree shade patterns in agroforestry systems. CATIE. | Room #1 |
| 4:50-5:00 pm | Facilitator | Questions/answers, and discussions | Room #1 |
| Session 3.R2.: EXPERIENCES/ETHICAL AGROFORESTRY Facilitator: Arlene Lopez Sampson | |||
| 4:00-4:10 pm | Bishaw, Badege. USA | The Science and Practices of Agroforestry from Tropical and Temperate Regions: Sharing four decades of experience in capacity building, research, and development. College of Forestry, Oregon State University. | Room #2 |
| 4:10-4:20 pm | Hemmelgarn, Hannah L. USA | Collective Reflexivity as an Ethical Foundation for Agroforestry Research. University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry. | Room #2 |
| 4:20-4:40 pm | Facilitator | Questions/answers, and discussions | Room #2 |
| 4:40-4:50 pm | Keeley, K.O. USA | The Savanna Institute Research Program: Advancing Agroforestry in the US Midwest. The Savanna Institute. | Room #2 |
| 4:50-5:00 pm | Facilitator | Questions/answers, and discussions | Room #2 |
| THINK TANK (PANEL) 1: EDUCATION, CAPACITY BUILDING / NETWORKING AND COMMUNICATION TO ENHANCE AGROFORESTRY Facilitator: Mariela Leandro | |||
| 5:00-6:00 pm | Facilitator | This session will include: Two short presentations to introduce the topic (20 minutes): Jairo Mora-Delgado (VIRTUAL) and Hanna Hemmelgarn. Two to three expert panelists will answer prepared questions on the topic (20 minutes) Interactions with the public through questions/answers, opinions, comments, and suggestions to contribute to the topic (20 minutes) | Room #1 |
| CLOSURE OF DAY 1 | |||
| TIME FOR MEETINGS / NETWORKING | |||
| 7:00-9:00 pm | Dinner | Cafetería | |
DAY 2 (Wednesday, 21 FEB)
| TIME | PRESENTER AND INSTITUTION | TITLE | ROOM |
| 6:00-7:45 am | Breakfast | Cafetería | |
| 7:50-8:00 am | Rolando Cerda B. Claudia Sepúlveda | Short opening act of DAY 2 Master of ceremony: Katie Modic, CATIE | Room #1 |
| Session 4.R1.: AGROFORESTRY WITH ANNUAL CROPS Facilitator: Rolando H. Cerda | |||
| 8:00-8:30 am | Steven Newman. UK | Keynote speaker: Agroforestry with annual crops: successes, challenges and suggestions for the future. BioDiversity International Ltd. | Room #1 |
| 8:30-8:40 am | Mentreddy, S.R. USA | Alley Cropping: A Climate-smart Agricultural Practice for Mitigating Climate Change Effects and Ensuring Food Security. Alabama A&M University. | Room #1 |
| 8:40-8:50 am | Greeshma, G. USA | Harnessing alley cropping for climate-resilient organic vegetable production in the Southeastern U.S. Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee. | Room #1 |
| 8:50-9:00 am | Valle, G. Honduras | Producción de leña y hoja de árboles multipropósito bajo esquema de cultivo en callejones en Honduras. UNAH-CURLA, Honduras. | Room #1 |
| 9:00-9:15 am | Facilitator | Questions/answers, and discussions | Room #1 |
| 9:15-9:25am | Starr, L. USA | Achieving soil health goals with agroforestry by supporting Indigenous Knowledge and Practices: Opportunities and challenges for agricultural cost-share programs. USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service. | Room #1 |
| 9:25-9:35 am | Karki, L. USA | Incentivizing Small and Minority Farmers to Adopt Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry Practices. University of Maryland Eastern Shore. | Room #1 |
| 9:35-9:45 am | Shea, M.; Wolz, K. USA | Assessing the potential for agroforestry in the US Midwest. The Savanna Institute. | Room #1 |
| 9:45-10:00 am | Facilitator | Questions/answers, and discussions and session remarks | Room #1 |
| Session 4.R2.: LINEAR PLANTING/FOREST FARMING Facilitator: Hannah Hemmelgram | |||
| 8:00-8:30 am | Gary Bentrup. USA | Keynote speaker: Non-linear thinking for linear agroforestry practices, US-Forest Service, National Agroforestry Center, USA | Room #2 |
| 8:30-8:40 am | Garcia, E. or Somarriba, E. Honduras | Valoración ambiental y económica de las cercas vivas en un paisaje agropecuario típico de Honduras. CATIE | Room #2 |
| 8:40-8:50 am | Flaman, S.; Akhter, F. Canada | Using unmanned aerial vehicles and light detection and ranging techniques to estimate shelterbelt biomass. Agriculture and Agri-Food, University of Regina. | Room #2 |
| 8:50-9:00 am | Bloomquist, M.B. USA. | Developing Forest Farming in Appalachia. North Carolina State University | Room #2 |
| 9:00-9:15 am | Questions/answers, and discussions | ||
| 9:15-9:25 am | Sheban, K. USA | Effect of management regime and propagule type on the success of forest farming systems in the Eastern United States. Yale University-School of the Environment. | Room #2 |
| 9:25-9:35 am | Colburn, L. USA | Beyond the Barn: Dairy Farmer Perspectives on Challenges and Opportunities of On-Farm Woodlot Management. Stanford University, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment | Room #2 |
| 9:35-10:00 am | Questions/answers, and discussions and session remarks | ||
| 10:00-10:30 am | Coffee break and POSTER EXHIBITION (30 minutes) POSTERS TO BE DISPLAYED: Annual crops/Linear Planting and Agroforestry Approaches | ||
| Session 5.R1.: MODELING INTERACTIONS IN AGROFORESTRY Facilitator: Luis Orozco Aguilar | |||
| 10:30-10:40 am | Aryal, P. USA | Modeling forest farming site suitability for Allium tricoccum in Appalachia. Virginia Tech, United States | Room #1 |
| 10:40-10:50 am | Cerretelli, S. UK | A scenario modeling approach to assess management impacts on soil erosion in coffee systems in Central America. Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich | Room #1 |
| 10:50-11:00 am | Facilitator | Questions/answers, and discussions | Room #1 |
| 11:00-11:10 am VIRTUAL | Owens, P. USA | Functional soil maps inform tree species-specific efficiency in agroforestry systems. USDA ARs Dale Bumpers Small Farms Research Center | Room #1 |
| 11:10-11:20 am | Rogers, E. USA | The power of trees to clean environmental pollution: Innovations in phytotechnologies from a regional network of phytoremediation buffer systems in the Great Lakes Basin, USA. University of Missouri, School of Natural Resources, Center | Room #1 |
| 11:20-11:30 am | Facilitator | Questions/answers, and discussions | Room #1 |
| Session 5.R2.: FRAMEWORKS AND ARRANGEMENTS IN AGROFORESTRY Facilitator: Luc Villain PhD | |||
| 10:30-10:40 am | Favor, K, A. USA | Advancing Practical Knowledge of Agroforestry through Agroforestry Outreach Products. USDA National Agroforestry Center | Room #2 |
| 10:40-10:50 am | Glicksman, M. USA | Catalyzing Agroforestry in the Farm Bill: Recommendations for Resilient Agriculture | Room #2 |
| 10:50-11:00 am | Facilitator | Questions/answers, and discussions | Room #2 |
| 11:00-11:10 am | Ileana Avalos, Costa Rica | Construction of Institutional Arrangements in Agricultural Governance Schemes Arising from Climate Commitments: The Case of Coffee and Livestock Production Chains in Costa Rica. CATIE | Room #2 |
| 11:10-11:20 am | Colburn, L. USA | A social-ecological framework for agroecological restoration. Stanford University. | Room #2 |
| 11:20-11:30 am | Facilitator | Questions/answers, and discussions | Room #2 |
| THINK TANK (PANEL) 2: ENABLING ENVIRONMENTS (POLICIES, GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONAL, FINANCIAL) TO BETTER PROMOTE AGROFORESTRY Facilitator: Claudia Sepúlveda | |||
| 11:30-12:15 md | Facilitator | This session will include: One short presentation to introduce the topic (10 minutes), Florencia Montagnini. Two to three expert panelists will answer prepared questions on the topic (15 minutes) Interactions with the public through questions/answers, opinions, comments, and suggestions to contribute to the topic (15 minutes) | Room #1 |
| 12:15-1:30 pm | Lunch | Cafeteria | |
| Session 6a.R1: AGROFORESTRY STRATEGIC APPROACHES Facilitator: Augustine Osei | |||
| 1:30-2:00 pm | Luis Gándara, Argentina | Keynote speaker: Armonizando árbol, pasto, agricultura y ganado: “Innovaciones Silvopastoriles y Agroforestales del Subtrópico Argentino”. INTA, Argentina. | Room #1 |
| 2:00-2:10 pm | Gordon, AM. Canada | The 1st Conference on Agroforestry in North America: Where it has brought us to Today and Where we Need to Go. School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph. | Room #1 |
| 2:10-2:20 pm | Marsh, A. USA | Strategic Directions: Advancing USDA Programs to Support Agroforestry. USDA National Agroforestry Center. | Room #1 |
| 2:20-2:30 pm | López Sampson, A. Nicaragua | Local arrangements in rural landscapes in the Nicaragua-Honduras sentinel landscape: the cases of a local farmer organization and a multi-actor platform. CATIE. | Room #1 |
| 2:30-2:45 pm | Facilitator | Questions/answers, and discussions | Room #1 |
| 2:45-2:55 pm | Viguera, B. Spain | AFS potential to improve Payment for Ecosystem Services effectiveness. CATIE. | Room #1 |
| 2:55-3:05 pm | Montagnini, F. USA | Promoting Agroforestry Systems as Biodiversity Islands in Productive Landscapes: Biodiversity credits and other incentives. Yale University, School of the Environment, The Forest School. | Room #1 |
| 3:05-3:15 pm | Facilitator | Questions/answers, and discussions | Room #1 |
| 3:15-3:45 pm | Coffee break and GENERAL POSTER EXHIBITION. NETWORKING (30 minutes). | ||
| Session 6b.R1: AGROFORESTRY STRATEGIC APPROACHES Facilitator: Eduardo Somarriba | |||
| 3:45-4:15 pm | Fergus Sinclair, UK | Keynote speaker: Flexing your opinions: how farmers choose what trees to plant and where, promotes landscape diversity, productivity and resilience. CIFOR-ICRAF-Agroecology TPP. | Room #1 |
| 4:15-4:25 pm | Smith, M.M. USA | Results of the 2022 U.S. National Agroforestry Producer Survey. USDA-National Agroforestry Center. | Room #1 |
| 4:25-4:35 pm | Osentowski, J. USA | Agroforestry Education for Year-Round Food and Medicine Production, Carbon Sequestration, Soil-Building, and Climate Change Mitigation. The Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute Basalt. | Room #1 |
| 4:35-4:45 pm | Healy, G.K. USA | The Agroforestry Coalition: a new cross-sector network in the USA. Savanna Institute. | Room #1 |
| 4:45-5:00 pm | Facilitator | Questions/answers, and discussions | Room #1 |
| 5:00-5:10 pm | Adams, K. USA | Rooted in Relationship: Building Strong, Multi-Party Partnerships Through Agroforestry Demonstration Farms. Savanna Institute. | Room #1 |
| 5:10-5:20 pm | Warren, S. USA | Agroforestry Trainings for Natural Resource Professionals. Appalachian Sustainable Development | Room #1 |
| 5:20-5:30 pm | Questions/answers, and discussions | ||
| 5:30-6:30 pm | Luc Villain, France; Arlene Lopez, Nicaragua | Side event: AGROFORESTA platform (open to the public) The coordinators of AGROFORESTA will animate the session together with a degustation of specialty coffees. This scientific platform works mainly with perennial crops in the tropical regions of Latin America. It has important partners such as: AGROSAVIA, CATIE, CIAT-BIoversity, CIFOR-ICRAF, CIRAD, ECOSUR, Fundación NicaFrance, INIAP, PROMECAFE. Its animators will prepare a short session to share the objectives, themes of research, achievements, and prospects of future actions in the region of the platform, in order to encourage assistants to be part of joint research. | Room #1 |
| CLOUSURE OF DAYS 1 AND 2 | |||
| 8:00 pm | SPECIAL DINNER | ||
Day 3 (Thursday, 22 FEB)
Join us at the North American Agroforestry Conference (NAAC), where we’ll explore the latest findings and research methodologies in temperate and tropical agroforestry. This event aims to foster knowledge sharing for the sustainable provision of ecosystem services in America and the Caribbean.
Contact
Rolando Cerda
📩 rcerda@catie.ac.cr
Claudia Sepúlveda
📩 csepul@catie.ac.cr