Fwd: Call for Papers: Symposium on “Fostering the Use of Rainwater for Food Security, Integrated Landscape Restoration and Climate Resilience and Poverty Alleviation”, Hamburg, Germany, 21st-22nd February 2017

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Subject: Call for Papers: Symposium on “Fostering the Use of Rainwater for Food Security, Integrated Landscape Restoration and Climate Resilience and Poverty Alleviation”, Hamburg, Germany, 21st-22nd February 2017
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Call for Papers: Symposium on “Fostering the Use of Rainwater for Food Security, Integrated Landscape Restoration and Climate Resilience and Poverty
Alleviation”, Hamburg, Germany,  21st-22nd February 2017

The project AFRHINET (“A Technology-Transfer Network on Rainwater Harvesting Irrigation Management for Sustainable Dryland Agriculture, Food Security and
Poverty Alleviation in sub-Saharan Africa” is hosting the Symposium on “Fostering the Use of Rainwater for Food Security, Integrated Landscape Restoration
and Climate Resilience, and Poverty  Alleviation”. The event will be held in Hamburg, Germany,  on 21st-22nd February 2017.

The Symposium is hosted by the coordinator of the AFRHINET project, namely the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences,
in cooperation with the Research and Technology Transfer Centres at Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique),
Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia), University of Nairobi (Kenya), and University of Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe),
as well as with other initiatives and projects.

The Symposium will focus on “Fostering the Use of Rainwater for Food Security, Integrated Landscape Restoration and Climate Resilience, and Poverty
Alleviation”. In this regard, cost-effective experiences from research, field projects and best-practices on the use of rainwater for irrigated and
rainfed small-scale agriculture, integrated landscape restoration and climate resilience, and poverty alleviation in sub-Saharan Africa will
be showcased. These experiences may also be useful to be implemented in other arid and semi-arid areas globally, with a special emphasis on
the ACP Group of States. This Symposium will be a truly interdisciplinary event, mobilizing international scholars and practitioners
undertaking research and/or executing rainwater-smart projects in the African continent.

Consistent with the need for more cross-sectoral interactions among the various stakeholders working in the field of rainwater harvesting management
for food security, integrated landscape restoration and climate resilience, and poverty alleviation, the aims of the Symposium on
“Rainwater-Smart Management in sub-Saharan Africa” are as follows:

i. to provide research institutions, universities, NGOs, governments and enterprises from Africa with an opportunity to display and
present their works in this field of knowledge;
ii. to foster the exchange of information, ideas and experiences acquired in the execution of rainwater-smart projects, especially
successful initiatives and best-practices practices across the African continent;
iii. to discuss methodological approaches and experiences deriving from case studies and projects, which aim to show
rainwater-smart adaptation strategies can be implemented in practice;
iv. to provide a platform to network and possibilities for cooperation in this field of knowledge.

Delegates attending the Symposium on “Rainwater-Smart Management in sub-Saharan Africa” will come from a cross-sectoral range of areas,
from across the African society and the international community. The profile of the target participants is as it follows:

i. members of NGOs working in this related fields of knowledge;
ii. researchers at universities and research centres;
iii. teaching staff at universities;
iv. representatives from private enterprises;
v. representatives from UN and national development and aid agencies workingwith in related fields of knowledge and funding/executing rainwater-smart projects on the ground;
vi. project officers and consultants;
vii. other people interested in this field.

It is believed that this wide range of participants will help to outline the need for and the usefulness of integrated approaches towards the use of
rainwater for food security, integrated landscape restoration and climate resilience, and poverty alleviation in sub-Saharan Africa and, hence
contribute to the further consolidation of this thematic area.

The authors whose abstracts have been accepted, will be contacted with further details. Some support towards travel and accommodation in Germany for the duration
of the Symposium may be made available in specific cases, for outstanding contributors and speakers. The deadlines are:

• Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30th October 2016
• Deadline for submission of full papers: 10th December 2016
• Deadline for registrations: 15th January 2017

Expressions of interest to attend the event, consisting initially of a 200 words abstract, containing the names and all contact details of the authors
should be sent to Josep de la Trincheria at: JosepMaria.DeTrincheriaGomez@haw-hamburg.de by 30th October 2016. Further details on AFRHINET can be seen at:
http://afrhinet.eu/.