Seminar on Food Security on World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden - Conference materials

Convenors: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), International Centre for Soil Fertility and Agricultural Development (IFDC), International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), United Nations Convention to Combat Desertifi cation (UNCCD) and Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA)

Content - Summary

All speakers presented arguments why combining productive sanitation with rain water harvesting and conservation agriculture will give large synergies. This combination of good management practices has not been tried at large scale yet, but many of us left the seminar with the intention of implementing this combination.

List of presentations:

1) Visions: Enhanced Health and Food Security
Hon. J. Namuyangu Byakatonda, Minister of State for Water & Environment, Uganda

2) Challenges and Opportunities for Smallholder Farmers in Arid Zones
Executive Secretary Luc Gnacadja, Benin, UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

3) Improving Small Scale Agriculture in a Changing Climate
Prof. Rattan Lal, College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Science, Ohio State University, USA

4) Achieving Food Security and Accelerated Sanitation Coverage through Water Harvesting and Conservation Technologies: Case Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa
Director Maimbo Mabanga Malesu, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Kenya

5) Experiences and Opportunities for Human Excreta Fertilizers in Improving Small Scale Agriculture
Dr. Moussa Bonzi, Centre Regional Pour l’Eau Potable et l’Assainissement à Faible Coût (CREPA), Burkina Faso

6) The SuSanA Working Group on Food Security and Productive Sanitation Systems and the New Triple-Green Project
Dr. Pay Drechsel, IWMI, Ghana

7) IFAD support to the Triple Green Approach
Laurent Stravato, IFAD

Bibliographic information

Various Authors (2008). Seminar on Food Security on World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden - Conference materials.

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