Annual Meeting 2009

When: August 31-September 1
Where: Washington, D.C., area

Meeting locations:

  • Marriott Courtyard Dunn Loring
  • Vienna, Virginia
  • Virginia Tech Northern Virginia Center
  • USAID Library
  • Ronald Reagan Building.

Agenda

This meeting started with a discussion about the Final Reports for Phase III and then broke into individual Long Term Research Award (LTRA) meetings. Presentations by each LTRA and Cross-Cutting Research Award (CCRA) followed into the afternoon and the following day.

Monday, August 31

Morning session: Virginia Tech Northern Virginia Center, Falls Church

Time Event
8:30 AM Welcome and introductions (pdf 343 kb). S.K. De Datta, Theo Dillaha.
9:00 Business meeting
SANREM CRSP Phase III final reports. Keith M. Moore
Continuing opportunities for Associate Awards. Michael Bertelsen
9:30 Morning break
9:45 Discussion on USAID presentations
10:15 Team meetings
11:30 Leave for Ronald Reagan Building. Lunch at Reagan Building food court

Afternoon session: USAID Library, mezzanine level, Ronald Reagan Building, Washington

Time Event
1:00 PM Long-term Research Award Activities. Introduction: Theo Dillaha
1:05 Decentralization Reforms and Property Rights (pdf 1,081 kb). Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University
1:35 An Agricultural Markets Model for Biodiversity Conservation (pdf 2,222 kb). Alexander Travis, Cornell University
2:05 Watershed-based Natural Resource Management for Small-scale Agriculture (pdf 967 kb). Jeffrey Alwang, Virginia Tech
2:35 Afternoon break
3:00 Practices and Strategies for Vulnerable Agro-ecosystems (pdf 1,996 kb). Corinne Valdivia, University of Missouri
3:30 Agroforestry and Sustainable Vegetable Production (pdf 8,675 kb). Manuel R. Reyes, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
4:00 SANREM CRSP cross-cutting initiatives (pdf 1,960 kb). Introduction: Keith M. Moore
4:05 Watershed Modeling and Assessment. Conrad Heatwole, Virginia Tech
4:10 Linking Knowledge and Action. Esther Mwangi, Harvard University
4:15 Assessing and Managing Soil Quality. Peter Motavalli, University of Missouri
4:20 Gendered Access to Markets. Maria Elisa Christie, Virginia Tech
4:25 Soil Metagenomics. Karen Garrett, Kansas State University
4:30-5:00 Questions and discussion
7:00 Dinner, Marriott Courtyard Dunn Loring.

Tuesday, September 1

All-day session: Virginia Tech Northern Virginia Center, Falls Church

Time Event
7:00 AM Technical Committee meeting and breakfast
8:15 SANREM CRSP Phase III scientific meeting. Moderator: Theo Dillaha
8:30 Watershed-based Natural Resource Management for Small-scale Agriculture (pdf 5,778 kb). Jeffrey Alwang
9:30 Agroforestry and Sustainable Vegetable Production (pdf 13,003 kb). Manuel R. Reyes
10:30 Morning break
11:00 An Agricultural Markets Model for Biodiversity Conservation (pdf 1,709 kb). Alexander Travis
12:00 PM Lunch and poster session
1:15 Practices and Strategies for Vulnerable Agro-ecosystems (pdf 5,590 kb). Corinne Valdivia
2:15 Decentralization Reforms and Property Rights (pdf 1,587 kb). Elinor Ostrom
3:15 Afternoon break
3:30 Watershed Modeling and Assessment (pdf 618 kb). Conrad Heatwole
3:45 Linking Knowledge and Action. Esther Mwangi
4:00 Assessing and Managing Soil Quality (pdf 1,784 kb). Peter Motavalli
4:15 Gendered Access to Markets (pdf 157 kb). Maria Elisa Christie
4:30 Soil Metagenomics (pdf 50 kb). Karen Garrett
4:45 Closing discussion, questions, details of SANREM Phase IV
5:00-5:15 SANREM CRSP Phase III closing ceremony. S.K. De Datta