IFOAM | Organic agriculture relationship with Nature Conservation and Biodiversity

Organic agriculture relationship with Nature Conservation and Biodiversity

Wednesday June 18^th 2008

Coordinator: prof. Ettore Tibaldi
Location: Camera di Commercio/ Chamber of Commerce, via Ganaceto 34 – Modena

Room: Sala Leonelli
Language: English
Simultaneous translation available: Italian
Chairman: prof. Ettore Tibaldi

Keynote speakers
11.15 am	Ettore Tibaldi, Andrea Biffi - University of Gastronomic Sciences Italy, The need of farmer-friendly methods in tracking values inside agro-ecological system
11.40 am	Louise Jackson [pdf 11KB]- University of California, Davis (USA), Agrobiodiversity and Organic Agriculture
12.00 am	Miguel Altieri [pdf 14KB] - University of California, Berkeley (USA) The ecological role of biodiversity in the design of sustainable agroecosystems
12.20 am	Roberto Burdese – Slow Food Italia, The Slow Food Movement and its role in defending biodiversity Slow Food Italia
12.40 am	Debate
13.00 pm	Lunch/Poster session (see posters list below)

Afternoon session I
14.30 pm	Laura Baluda, Coclea/Solco Bergamo, Italy - Searching for the lost polenta: old mais breeds restoration in the natural park "Parco dei Colli di Bergamo"
14.40 pm	Frederick Kirschenmann [pdf 11KB], Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, USA - It Starts with the Soil, and Organic Agriculture Can Help
14.50 pm	Alok Shrestha [pdf 12KB], Prem Bahadur Thapa, Basanta Rana Bhat and Janak Chepang - Conservation and utilization of potato yam (Dioscorea bulbifera L.): Livelihood strategy adopted by tribal communities (Chepang and Bhujel) in Western Nepal
15.10 pm	Castello L.[pdf 26KB], Carboni M., Piazza C., Italy - Farmers to safeguard biodiversity in the Province of Parma
15.20 pm	Fabbro Luigi, Amazonia Landscape Mapping and Biodiversity Estimation , Brasil - Mapping Amazonia Biodiversity : the creation of an in-situ collection of wild relatives of agricultural germplasm
15.30 pm	Dario Caccamisi[pdf 17KB], Sassi di Roccamaltina Regional Park, Italy - Sustainable development of agriculture within the regional park “sassi di roccamalatina
15.40 pm	Debate
16.00 pm	Coffee Break/Poster session

Afternoon session II
16.30 pm	Melvani Kamal [pdf 11KB], Neo Synthesis Research Centre, Sri Lanka - Ecological Restoration of Tsunami affected lands in Sri Lanka – the case of Kalmunai
16.40 pm	María Calzada[pdf 10KB], Cocina de la Tierra Foundation, Argentina - Traditional native food, biodiversity and culture
16.50 pm	Dario Sonetti [pdf 10KB], Elena Magri, Università di Modena e Reggio, Italy – Biodiversity protection – The twin programme between the Regional Park Sassi di Roccamalatina (Italy) and the National Park Barra Honda (Costa Rica)
17.00 pm	Debate
17.10 pm	Roberto Ori [pdf 10KB] e Matteo Gualmini, Provincia Modena Italy - Role of the Rete Natura 2000 network and the protected areas in the County of Modena for biodiversity protection
17.20 pm	Migliorini P.[pdf 10KB], Coordinamento Toscano Produttori Biologici (CTPB), Italy - Development of organic farming in protected areas of Tuscany
17.30 pm	Nikki Rose [pdf 10KB], Crete’s Culinary Sanctuaries, Greece - Eco-Agritourism as a Means to Preserve Culture and the Environment
17.40 pm	Zimmer C. [pdf 10KB] e Bühler R., Bäuerliche Erzeugergemeinschaft Schwäbisch Hall (BESH), Germany - Rare breed conservation using an organic breeding method – the example of a farmers associations approach
17.50 pm	Debate
18.00 pm	Coffee Break/Poster session

Afternoon session III
18.25 pm	Felipe Iñiguez , MAELA, Latin America - Towards the sovereignty by the biodiversity: Agro ecological Movement of Latin America and the Caribbean
18.35 pm	Krug A. [pdf 10KB] e Kärcher A., German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), Germany - Challenges of further support for Organic Farming in EU-Policies
18.45 pm	Debate
18.55 pm	Berhan Tewolde, World Future Council, Etiopia

Concluding remarks
19.15 pm	Pipo Lernoud, Argentina, IFOAM World Board
19.35 pm	Ettore Tibaldi, Italy, University of Gastronomic Sciences

Posters Session

Stefano Zocca [pdf 9KB] - National Association "City of Cherries" Vignola Wholesale Market (Itlay)
Giovanna Zacchi [pdf 10KB]- Biodiversity and Training in Sustainable Development Province of Modena (Italy)
Fausto Minelli [pdf 11KB], Romano Benassi, Stefano Sirotti, Mauro Villani, Mauro Ferri - Survey on swift bird “apus apus” within the territory of the regional park “Sassi di Roccamalatina” (1991 - 2007)(Italy)
Valerio Fioravanti [pdf 10KB] - The wolf: problems, opportunities, activities and future’s perspectives’ in Frignano Natural Park (Italy)
Corsinotti Paolo [pdf 12KB] - Modena Ornitological Station et al , Two projects for the environment and biodiversity
Campioli Enrico [pdf 59KB], Avallone Rossella, Rustichelli Cecilia, Notarangelo Francesca, Braghiroli Daniela and Baraldi Mario - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, Flaxseed oil acute and chronic supplementation increases serum and tissue concentrations of omega fatty acids in rats
Komar Oliver [pdf 15KB] - Rainforest Alliance & SalvaNATURA, America Latina (El Salvador) – Monitoring dispersing forest birds and migratory birds in el salvador’s apaneca biological corridor
Razionale Vinicio - Consorzio BioGargano, Italy, The Nature production of Gargano National Park
Cantero J.J.[pdf 14KB], Piola M., Cisneros J.M., Núñez C., Corbella C., Corbella S., Macfarlane R., Bannister G. - Fundación Rachel & Pamela Schiele + Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Argentina - Restoration in practice at wetland wildlife refuge “Las Dos Hermanas”
Stefano Zocca [pdf 10KB], Vignola Wholesale Market - the “Slow Food” “presidium” of traditional Vignola cherries
L.Ortolani [pdf 13KB], C.Grandi, AIAB - Organic farming excellences in Italian National Parks
Stefano Pescarmona [pdf10KB], University of Gastronomic Science - Organic school gardens for an environmental, food and gastronomic education: the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo case studies
Ambrogio Lanzi [pdf 11KB], Francesca Amorosi, Riccardo Fontana, Alessandra Paladini, Consultancy Group Fontana-Gianaroli-Lanzi, Italy - EU Habitats and Species of Community Importance within the existing area of the Parco Regionale dei Sassi di Roccamalatina and the areas designed for further inclusion in the park boundaries
Komar Oliver[pdf 15KB], SalvaNatura, Dep.to Ciencias para la conservacion, San Salvador – Monitorino dispersine forest birds and migratory birds in El Salvador’s Apaneca natural corridor

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