MONDAY 28 JANUARY 2019 PLENARY SORGHUM MILLET IZIKO · PLENARY SORGHUM MILLET IZIKO MIND SPACE Theme: Farmers’ rights and seed policy 1) Seed policy in India and Tanzania - Presentation:

MONDAY 28 JANUARY 2019 TIME PLENARY SORGHUM MILLET IZIKO 8:00 –9:00

Registration: Amphitheatre in front

of the Iziko Museum

9:00 – 9:30

Opening ceremony: Amphitheatre

in front of the Iziko Museum and

the Company Gardens

Opening address:

Method Gundidzwa, Earthlore

Foundation;

Siphokazi Jonas, University of Cape

Town;

Thombithini Ndwandwe, Zimele Rual Empowerment Organisation Tree planting at the gardens

9:30 – 10:00

Introductions:

Amphitheatre in front of the Iziko

Museum

10:15 Formal welcome:

Professor Loretta Feris, Deputy

Vice-Chancellor: Transformation,

University of Cape Town

Keynote address (by video):

Professor Hilal Elver, United

Nations Special Rapporteur on the

Right to Food

Keynote address: Caterina Batello, formerly Agroecology Team Leader, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Creating Synergies and partnership

to Scale up Agroecology at regional

and global level: moving from

dialogue to action

Introduction to the conference:

Associate Professor Rachel

Wynberg, SARChI Bioeconomy

Chair, University of Cape Town

11:15

–

11:30

TEA

11:30

–

13:00

PLENARY SORGHUM MILLET IZIKO MIND SPACE

Theme: Urban agroecology

Agroecology in the City of Cape

Town –

Panel: City of Cape Town

Theme: Landscapes, science, practice

1) Agroecological approach to

agriculture -

Presentation: Dr Aart-Jan Verschoor,

Agricultural Research Council

2) Conserving natural enemies in the

agricultural landscape of the Sundays

River Valley –

Theme: Agroecology and IT

1) Agroecology as a practice: Challenges

and opportunities from mainstreaming -

Presentation: Nirmala Nair, School of

Practical Sustainability

2) ICT 4 Agroecology: Farmer-

participatory agroecological research in

Tanzania –

Theme: The Seed and Knowledge

Initiative

The Seed and Knowledge Initiative

– learning from each other –

Talking circle: Representatives

from each of the SKI partners

Presentation: Alistair Galloway

3) Science, agroecology and food

security –

Presentation: Professor Raymond

Auerbach, Nelson Mandela University

4) Seed Security Assessment of the 4

most vulnerable districts in Zimbabwe:

Issues limiting the contribution of

farmer seed system to food and

nutrition security in Zimbabwe:

Presentation: Dr Claid Mujaju, Seed

Services Institute, Zimbabwe

Presentation: Dr Angelika Hilbeck, Swiss

Federal Institute of Technology

3) RHOMIS: a digital research tool for

household characterisations and

monitoring progress towards agroecology

and climate smart agriculture

Presentation: Samuel

Adams, RHOMIS

4) iZindaba Zokudla: A history –

Presentation: Naudé Malan, University of

Johannesburg

5) Social learning and innovation findings,

a food surplus and market transformation

mobile application initiative (Food for Us)

Presentation: Sarah Jane Durr, Thato

Tantsi, Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Rhodes

University

13:00 –

14:00 LUNCH: COMPANY GARDENS

14:00 –

14:45

Keynote address:

Dr Emile Frison, International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems. Agroecology and health

14:45 –

16:15 PLENARY SORGHUM MILLET IZIKO MIND SPACE

Theme: Sustainable farming in

the Western Cape

Sustainable farming in the

Western Cape –

Panel: Facilitated by Professor

Dzama, Dr Lotze and Dr Malgas,

Theme: Agroecology in practice

Agroecological experiences in the South

African Lowveld –

Presentation and documentary: Anri

Manderson, Hoedspruit Hub; Cryton

Theme: Health and agroecology

1) The right to enjoy the benefits of

scientific progress for small farmers facing

pesticide hazards -

Presentation: Professor Leslie London,



Participatory agroecological

approaches to building resilient,

equitable communities –

Participatory session: Soils, Food

Sustainability Institute

Zazu, AWARD; Megan Loftie-Eaton,

Hoedspruit Hub

2) Integrating nutrition into agroecology

for strengthened rural resilience -

Presentation: Sasha Menz-Lagrange, Niche

Unity

3) ‘The World is Rich’ Links between

ecology, food security and nutrition –

Presentation: Stacia and Kristoff Nordin,

Never-ending Food

and Healthy Communities, Malawi

and Cornell University with photos,

recipes, farmers and researchers.

Prof. Rachel Bezner Kerr, Cornell

University, Mr. Burton Gama and

Mrs. Towera Nyasulu, Soils, Food

and Healthy Communities (SFHC)

16:15 –

16:30 TEA

16:30 –

17:00

Plenary and Feedback

17:00 Closure: Plenary

17:30 Opening of the Insecthibition, 6 Spin Street Gallery

18:00 – 19:30 Biowatch Birthday Celebration, 6 Spin Street Gallery

TUESDAY 29 JANUARY 2019 8:30 –

8:45

Keynote:

Why agroecology matters

Delmah Ndlovu, Zimsoff

8:45 –

9:30

Keynote:

Seed Systems, Biodiversity

Conservation and Food Security – Is

There a Nexus?

Professor Albert Modi, Deputy

Vice-Chancellor, University of

KwaZulu-Natal

9:30 –


Theme: Farmers’ rights and seed

policy

1) Seed policy in India and

Tanzania -

Presentation: Shalini Bhutani

2) African perspectives on

Farmers’ Rights –

Presentation: Kudzai Kusena,

National Genebank of Zimbabwe

and University of Cape Town

3) The role of government in

implementing Farmers’ Rights –

Presentation: National

Department of Agriculture TBC

4) Social movements and Farmers’

Rights/peasant’s rights –

Presentation: Delmah Ndlovu,

Zimsoff

5) Understanding seed and

Farmers’ Rights from a South

African Constitutional perspective

- Presentation: Ngaya Munuo,


Theme: Participatory agroecological

approaches to building resilient,

equitable communities

Linking agroecology to resilient food

systems: Translating policy into

practice –

Panel: Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi (University

of KwaZulu-Natal), Laura Pereira (City,

University of London/University of

KwaZulu Natal), Garikai Magaya

(Development and Humanitarian

Practitioner), Vimbayi Chimonyo

(Michigan State University)

Theme: Agroecology in the Western

Cape

Policy framework for agroecology from an

environmental, biodiversity and

agricultural perspective in the Western

Cape –

Panel: John Wilson, Western Cape

Department of Environmental Affairs and

Development Planning; Rupert Koopman,

Cape Nature; Rudolph Roscher, Western

Cape Department of Agriculture


Urban agroecology from a

smallholder’s perspective –

Fishbowl: Farmers and academia:

Nicole Paganini, Humboldt

University; Zayaan Khan, University

of Cape Town

11:00 –

11:30 TEA

11:30 –


Theme: Seed systems

Theme: Agroecology and learning

Theme: Agroecology – a feminist

perspective


1) Seed system resilience -

Kudzai Kusena, University of Cape

Town

2) Seed security and food security

- Bulisani Ncube, University of

Cape Town

3) Maya Marshak, University of

Cape Town

4) Saving and exchanging seed -

Jaci van Niekerk, University of

Cape Town

5) The "Silent Scream" of "Pathetic

Seeds": Exploring a Feminist Ethic

of Care as a means to broaden

the scope of current GM crop risk

appraisal in South Africa -

Jen Wittingham, University of Cape

Town

6) Power, influence and the

imperative to transition to agro-

ecology –

Glenn Ashton, Stellenbosch

University

1) Generative grassroots learning in

reconfiguring the agrarian landscape

through local learning networks in

changing times -

Presentation: Pesanayi, Maqwelane,

Matiwane

2) We're ready, the system is not:

Youth perspectives on agricultural

transitions –

Presentation: Luke Meterlekamp,

Stellenbosch University

3) Educating the next generation of

professionals for a green shift in the

agrifood system –

Presentation: Geir Lieblein, Norwegian

University of Life Sciences

4) University campuses as seedbeds for

fighting hunger and co-engineering

food security through agroecology –

case studies –

Presentation: Felix Donkor, University

of South Africa

Agroecology as feminist praxis: Land,

seeds and labour - Women hold more than

half the sky –

Talking circle: Mercia Andrews; Dr Donna

Andrews; Dr Suzall Timm; Haidee Swanby

1) Manure as an alternative to

artificial fertilizer on pastures –

Presentation: Cynthia Fikile

Luthuli, University of KwaZulu-

Natal

2) Conservation of soil biological

diversity to achieve sustainability:

Understanding the role of

agroecology –

Presentation: Emogine Mamabolo,

Agricultural Research Council

3) Enhancing the biodiversity of

beneficial insect predators through

agroecological practices -

Presentation: Maria Makwela,

University of South Africa

13:00 –

14:00 LUNCH: COMPANY GARDENS

14:00 –

14:45

Keynote address:

Healthy, sustainable food as a human right

Pregs Govender, Former Deputy Chair, South African Human Rights Commission

14:45 –


Theme: Land and agroecology

Panel TBC:

Theme: Curricula and extension

Integrating agroecology in tertiary

education

Facilitated workshop: Biowatch;

Gareth Haysom, University of Cape

Town; Mazibuko Jara, Scott Drimie,

Stellenbosch University; Candice Kelly,

Raymond Auerbach, Nelson Mandela

University; James Moffet

Theme: Consumers and markets

1) Adoption of edible fynbos in the

Western Cape – A consumer preference

study -

Presentation: Chimwemwe Tembo-Phiri,

Stellenbosch University and Rhoda Malgas,

Stellenbosch University

2) Participatory Guarantee Systems as a

stepping stone to upscaling agroecological

practices –

Presentation: Sasha Mentz-Lagrange,

Participatory Gaurantee System South

Africa and South African Organic Sector

Organisation (SAOSO)

3) Consumer education for agroecology -

beyond organics –

Presentation: Sonia Mountford, Eategrity

Theme: Agroecology and social

care

Agroecology and social care:

Learning to speak other peoples'

languages through Farming with

Care –

Experiential session: Paul Bordoni;

Sonja Kruse; Kurt Ackermann; Carlo

Randall; Renshia Manuel; Pricilla;

John Parker

16:15

–

16:30

TEA AND SMALL-GROUP WORK

16:30

-

17:00

Plenary and Feedback

17:00 Plenary closure

WEDNESDAY 30 JANUARY 2019 8:30 –

8:45

Farmers’ voice: Why agroecology matters

8:45 -

9:30

Keynote:

Agroecology in the African context

Dr Million Belay, AFSA and IPES –

9:30 –


Theme: Land and development Theme: Agroecology in practice Theme: Communication Theme: Regenerative approaches to

paradigms

1) Corporate capture of food and

agriculture policy in South Africa,

what is to be done?

Presentation: Dr David Fig,


2) Marx, soil and the Metabolic

Rift: Notes toward a social science

of land

Presentation: Professor Lesley

Green, University of Cape Town

3) The Green Revolution under

critique: How AGRA is deepening

the Global Metabolic Rift -

Presentation: Julia Ruff, Joint

Degree of Albert Ludwigs-

University Freiburg, University of

Cape Town and the Chulalongkorn

University, Bangkok

Agroecology and dietary change –

Panel: Brittany Kesselman, University

of KwaZulu Natal; Loubie Rusch, Making

Kos; Zayaan Khan, University of Cape

Town and Gogo Qho, KwaZulu Natal

Creative communication for change

-

Panel: Convened by Stefanie

Swanepoel, Mycelium Colab

agroecology

Regenerative approaches to

Agroecology: Connecting seeds to

culture and nature –

Talking Circle: Simon Mtambo, African

Biodiversity Network; Chester

Chituwe, CELUCT; Method Gundidza,

Earthlore

Theme: Slow Food

Panel: Dr Laura Pereira, Sustainability Institute, Francesco Sottile, DARCH, University of Palermo, Dr Naude Malan, University of Johannesburg, Themba Chauka, SlowFood South Africa, Loubie Rusch, SlowFood South Africa, Zayaan Khan, SlowFood Youth,

Theme: Consumers and markets

1) Market and market arrangements as

resistance: Cases from Luoland, West

Kenya –

Presentation: Professor Paul Hebinck,

Wageningen University

2) Supporting an indigenous food

economy for social and ecological

resilience: Chefs and drought as an

opportunity in Cape Town –

Presentation: Jenny Willis, Centre

Of Excellence in Food Security,

Institute for Development Studies,

University of the Western Cape

Theme: Research and ways of

knowing

[POSSIBLY TWO SESSIONS TBC]

1) Doing research in different ways -

Presentation, experiential exercises,

group dialogue: Saskia von Diest,

Stellenbosch University; Matthew

Zylstra, Organisation for Noetic Ecology

2) Talking circle: Rachel Wynberg,

University of Cape Town; Elfrieda

Pschorn-Strauss, Seed and Knowledge

Initiative; Maya Marshak, University of

Cape Town; Jen Whittingham; Rachel


Empowering small-scale farmers

through building capacity in

sustainable agriculture and gender

sensitivity –

Talking circle: ESAFF, Lesotho; others

TBC

3) Introducing the Good Food Network –

Anna Shevel, Good Food Network

4) An agro-urban food system for

agroecology in the 21st Century -

Presentation: Dr Marc Wegerif,

University of Pretoria

Bezner-Kerr, Cornell University

13:00 –

13:30

Plenary – Closure and reflections.

13:30 –

14:30 LUNCH

14:30 –

17:00

Plenary: Afternoon reserved for

SKI Partner meeting

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MONDAY 28 JANUARY 2019 PLENARY SORGHUM MILLET IZIKO · PLENARY SORGHUM MILLET IZIKO MIND SPACE Theme: Farmers’ rights and seed policy 1) Seed policy in India and Tanzania - Presentation: