The main theme of the congress is: "Linking Production, Livelihoods and Conservation".
Sub-themes of the congress are:
- CA in building communities resilience and ability to provide for own livelihood and development needs.
- CA in mitigating/alleviating effects of social ills such as HIV-Aids, urbanisation and declining interest in farming, especially among the young.
- Socio-economic, cultural, agro-ecological and technical factors in sustainable adoption of CA.
- Soil life, biodiversity and agriculture.
- Policies and infrastructure support in enhancing CA adoption.
- CA contributing to global environmental quality concerns (carbon sequestration, green-house effect, etc…).
- Empowering farmers and farmer groups/associations in development and adoption of CA.
- Effective research and dissemination strategies for CA adoption..
- Stakeholder partnership and collaboration, including across sectors and disciplines.
- Information-knowledge management.
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