Announcement
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E-Symposium on
"Economic aspects on the use of Biotechnologies and Bioengineering
in Urban Agriculture by African Households"

Date: 01-30 June 2005
Venue: http://www.iobbnet.org/drupal/forum/102
Web: http://www.iobbnet.org/icbb-africa/bbua/
Registration:
  Active participation requires registration and 'write-permissions'
  Step 1: create your user account at www.iobbnet.org
  Step 2: send email request 'write-permission BBUA' to
          et-w7 @ segate.sunet.se
  No registration is needed for Readers (passive participants)
Contact: BBUA,
         email: [log in to unmask]

The E-symposium focuses at how African households use biotechnology and
bioengineering methods in urban agriculture to increase income
generation and to ensure their food security.

The objectives are :
* to present proven methods that are used by African households
* to discuss how these methods can be more widely used and
     what are the technical and socio-economic constraints
     for African households
* to discuss issues related to urban agriculture and their
     economic impacts on African households
* to discuss how African households can learn from other
     practices abroad

The e-symposium is organised so that you can interact with authors of 7
papers and discuss their papers which cover technological, economic and
public policy aspects of urban agriculture in Africa. A second parallel
activity of the E-symposium will focus on the end-users and will discuss
3 selected and important concerns :

1) What are the proven biotechnological and bioengineering
   methods used in urban agriculture and how can they be
   more widely used by African households
2) What are the technical and socio-economic constraints
   and what can be done about them
3) How can information be delivered to end-users so that
   they can increase potential for more income generation.

Organizer:
International Organization for Biotechnology and Bioengineering
http://www.iobbnet.org