Swazi farmers Clinch Agribusiness Deal with SA Project

Published on 25th Sep 2008

Farmers' consortium initiates Cape gooseberry project
By Teetee Zwane

THANKS to TechnoServe and Swaziland Water and Agricultural Development Enterprise (SWADE), a consortium of farming associations will be pioneering their first crop of Cape gooseberries this spring.

43rd Annual GSSA Congress: Implementing New Approaches to Range and Pasture Management

What Congress
When 21st to 25th Jul 2008
Where Aventura Badplaas, Mpumalanga, South Africa (ZAF)
More Info http://www.gssa.co.za/annual-congress/2008/gssa-congress-2008
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Published on 11th Jul 2008

The main theme of the Congress is Implementing New Approaches to Range and Pasture Management; although a wide range of themes will be covered during the Congress.

The symposia, special sessions and workshops will include Savannas: How has our knowledge grown since the biome projects? Linking Planted Pastures with Natural Rangelands: Knowledge gained in the past 25 years, Workshop: Remote Sensing and Rangeland Management, and Farmer Development: New Approaches to Rangeland and Pasture Management.

51st Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science

What Symposium
When 7th to 12th Sep 2008
Where Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch (Western Cape), South Africa (ZAF)
More Info http://academic.sun.ac.za/iavs2008/
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Published on 11th Jul 2008

The major aim of our meeting is to extend the interface and to deepen the cooperation between evolutionary biology and vegetation science.

The title of the meeting – “Frontiers of Vegetation Science: An Evolutionary Angle” – alludes symbolically to the challenges that vegetation science as a discipline is currently facing. Technologically driven progress in evolutionary research is changing the face of many traditional biological sciences. Vegetation science, should (and to some extent already does) react to this new phase of evolutionary research by reaching out to ecological disciplines traditionally closer to evolutionary biology (population biology, palaeo-ecology) and implementing tools of evolutionary research in explaining structure and dynamics of vegetation. The field of interaction and cooperation is enormous and is ripe for exploration and discovery.

GEOSS Workshop for Water Security and Governance in Africa

What Workshop
When 24th to 26th Oct 2008
Where Alicia Hotel, Accra, Ghana (GHA)
More Info http://www.ieee-earth.org/
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Published on 8th Jul 2008

This three day AARSE2008 pre-conference workshop is focussed on human capacity building for the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) and will provide the latest update on the implementation of the GEOSS information infrastructure. Special attention will be on how to develop operational end-user applications and actively work with end-users for informed decision making for Water Security and Governance. The workshop will provide a forum for discussing the development and operational issues of Water Security and Governance for Africa.

Introduction to the Land & Water Management Information System

Land and water management issues were identified by SADC Member States as being of major regional significance for several reasons. Food security is regarded as a national priority and is intimately tied up with water availability for agricultural production. With increasing population pressure and the need for intensification of production to generate food surplus, sustainability of soil and water resources has become a major concern. Finally, land and water management issues, except within the narrow confines of soil conservation have suffered considerable neglect, and soil conservation services in the region have been established outside of the National Agricultural Research Institutions. Research facilities are limited and the ability of trained research and extension staff is generally inadequate. Hence, SADC Member States are interested in building research and training capacity through this pogramme.  

The newly developed Land and Water Management Information System and portal (LWMIS) of which you can find a first version on these pages, should facilitate building these capacities by provide the information and knowledge sharing fundament on land and water management issues and the associated best practices available and researched with the SADC region.

The LWMIS Information System gives access to both Spatial as well as non-spatial information and was developed in close collaboration with the SADC L&W stakeholder community.