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WOCAT Symposium
Promoting Sustainable Land Management (SLM) for its Local and Global Impacts
Monday 20 October 2008, Bern, Switzerland


The symposium brought together various partners and donors, as well as international development and agricultural professionals and institutions. As the symposium took place on the first day of the 13 th WOCAT Annual Workshop and Steering Meeting, the main WOCAT partners were present, thus offering an exceptional chance to meet and exchange experiences and visions.

NEW: The symposium proceedings are available now!    

Programme

Presentations
Regional WOCAT initiatives and experiences Global partnership and future development  
Documented SLM practices for up-scaling in Ethiopia
(pdf, 4.2 MB)
Daniel Danano, Ministry of Agriculture, Addis Ababa

Mapping degradation and conservation (pdf, 1.3 MB)
(FAO-LADA, ISRIC, Ministry of Agriculture South Africa)
Lehman Lindeque, DoA , South Africa

 
Use of NepCAT Fact Sheets and future network plans
(pdf, 1.2 MB)

Sanjeev Bhuchar, ICIMOD, Kathmandu

Climate change and SLM: aligned efforts for Subsaharan Africa
(pdf, 514 KB)

Anne Woodfine, FAO-consultant, Frank Sperling, World Bank

 
Multi-Institutional partnership in the dissemination of SLM Technologies
(pdf, 2.0 MB)
Romeo Labios, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Laguna
SLM Knowledge management for monitoring impacts of investments
(pdf, 389 KB)

RBrigitte Schuster, UNU, Andrea Kutter, GEF/UNCCD

 
No-till experiences in Switzerland (pdf, 2.2 MB)
No-till in practice
(pdf, 1.4 MB)

Wolfgang Sturny, Bernese Soil Protection, Stefan Minder, Swiss farmer cost634
Decision support for effective implementation and up-scaling of SLM
(pdf, 514 KB)

Gudrun Schwilch WOCAT/ CDE, EU-DESIRE

 

Media - Press Release (english)
Media - Press Release (german)

List of participants


Organizer and contact:
CDE WOCAT
Hallerstrasse 10
CH - 3012 Bern
Switzerland
wocat@cde.unibe.ch
Tel: ++41 31 631 88 22
Fax: ++41 31 631 85 44