Building Resilience in Smallholder Farming in Kenya, Mexico and Thailand
This session will highlight three international collaborative projects building smallholder farmers’ resilience in Mexico, Kenya and Thailand. The projects capture aspects of sustainability ranging from plant breeding for increased nutrition (Mexico), to restoring African degraded landscapes through plant biodiversity and livestock management (Kenya), and social enterprises for innovation (Thailand).
The projects are funded by the UK's Global Challenges Research Fund and are led by the N8AgriFood Resilience Programme, a multidisciplinary collaboration of the eight most research intensive universities in the North of England tackling food security regionally, nationally and internationally. The objectives of the session are to present the UK's expertise and work on global food systems and to provide a conversation platform between the in-country project partners and other participants at the Symposium.
Agenda:
7:00-7:10 | Introductions (Steve Banwart & Kyle Dolan)
7:10-7:25 | Restoring African degraded landscapes with plant biodiversity and livestock management (Mariana Rufino & Joseph Hitimana)
7:25- 7:40 | Tomatoes for tomorrow: levering Mexican tomato agrodiversity and knowledge to develop climate resilient, high nutrition cultivars (Gabriela Ortiz & Victor Gonzalez)
7:40-7:55 | Roles of Social Enterprise in delivering inclusive agri-food value chain: cases of Thailand (Gate Pichawadee Kittipanya-ngam)
7:55-8:25 | Panel discussion chaired by Steve Banwart
8:25-8:30 | Closing remarks
Speakers:
| Steve Banwart Professor and Leadership Chair in Integrated Soil / Agriculture / Water N8AgriFood and University of Leeds, United Kingdom |
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| Mariana Rufino Professor of Agricultural Systems and N8AgriFood Chair N8AgriFood and University of Lancaster, United Kingdom |
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| Gabriela Toledo- Ortiz Dr, Lecturer in Plant Science N8AgriFood and University of Lancaster, United Kingdom |
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| Victor Gonzalez-Hernandez Professor in Plant Physiology Colegio de Post Graduados (COLPOS), Mexico |
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| Joseph Hitimana Professor and Acting Dean in the School of Natural Resource and Environmental Management University of Kanbianga, Kenya |
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| Gate Pichawadee Kittipanya-ngam Professor in Operations Management Thammasat Business School (TBS), Thailand |
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