Past Events from October 22, 2019 – February 4, 2019 – Page 9 – CIMMYT Past Events from October 22, 2019 – February 4, 2019 – Page 9 – CIMMYT

11th Information Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D) Conference

Speke Resort Munyonyo Wavamunno Road, Kampala, Uganda

The 11th Information Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D) Conference brings together hundreds of public, private and civil society organizations, eager to share practical insights on applying digital technology to development, humanitarian, and conservation challenges.

$200 – $1000

Conservation agriculture-based innovation systems

CIMMYT HQ Carretera México-Veracruz Km. 45, El Batán, Texcoco, Mexico

This course allows participants to become familiar with different aspects of innovation systems (hubs) and provides tools to foster these systems. Emphasis is given to conservation agriculture-based technologies for both irrigated and rainfed conditions: reduced tillage, soil cover by crop residue or crops and crop diversification.

$6,800

IGC Grains Conference 2019

Congress Centre 28 Great Russell Street, London, United Kingdom

The twenty-eighth IGC Grains Conference will highlight the key challenges facing the international grains and oilseed industry.

£670 – £770

CIMMYT at the EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2019

Annexet and Quality Hotel Globe Arenaslingan 7, Johanneshov, Stockholm, Sweden

Natalia Palacios Rojas will participate in the side event "Road testing healthy diets: Perspectives from the Global South" on June 14.

Statistical Analysis of Genetic and Phenotypic Data for Breeders

CIMMYT HQ Carretera México-Veracruz Km. 45, El Batán, Texcoco, Mexico

Through lectures, practices and discussions, you will learn: Basic concepts about Generalized Linear Mixed Models; Basic quantitative genetic concepts applied in Genome Selection and Plant Breeding; Analysis of genetic data, data management, diversity analysis, genome wide association studies.

$400

1st International Wheat Congress (IWC)

TCU Place 35 22 St E, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

The Congress is the first meeting of its kind. It will include a balanced program encompassing six areas of wheat research.

Can$600 – Can$1800

Africa Food Security Leadership Dialogue

Kigali Convention Center KG 2 Roundabout, Kigali, Rwanda

The meeting will facilitate engagement between key stakeholders to galvanize unified action around adaptation of Africa’s agriculture and food systems to climate change.

African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) 2019

Accra Accra, Ghana

The theme of AGRF 2019 will be "Grow Digital: Leveraging digital transformation to drive sustainable food systems in Africa."

Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture

AYANA Resort and Spa Jl. Karang Mas Sejahtera, Jimbaran, Bali, Indonesia

Since the term climate-smart agriculture (CSA) was coined in 2010, the biannual global science conferences on CSA have emerged as the key global forum for scientific exchange to underpin CSA implementation.

$250 – $600

Wheat Diversity & Human health

Elite World İstanbul Hotel Kocatepe Mahallesi, Şehit Muhtar Mh., Şehit Muhtar Caddesi No:42, Beyoğlu/İstanbul, Turkey

The conference will bring together wheat researchers and the human health community to exchange information and discuss strategies for improving the health benefits of wheat by exploiting diverse genetic resources, modern breeding and genomics, and sustainable production and processing technologies.

$175 – $400

African Plant Breeders Association (APBA) conference

University of Ghana Department of Economics, Legon, Accra, Ghana

The first APBA conference will discuss advances in classical breeding and application of modern breeding tools for food and nutrition security in Africa.

$50 – $150

Conservation Agriculture: Gateway for Sustainable Intensification of Smallholder Systems

CIMMYT India G2, B Block, National Agricultural Science Centre Complex (NASC), Dev Prakash Shastri Marg, New Delhi, India

Participants will develop enhanced understanding on the locally adapted conservation agriculture-based sustainable intensification principles and practices, application of new tools and techniques, and how to scale appropriate conservation agriculture machinery for diverse production systems, agro-ecologies and farm typologies.

$4,300