Partners' workshop in Kenya

AFS4Food the project has organized its annual meeting of the project partners in Kenya from 21 to 26 October 2013. A total of 21 participants from the partner institutions and CIRAD were present. Four days were devoted to the presentation of activities in each country and the organization of future project activities. A day was set aside to visit the coffee-based agroforestry systems.

During the first two days, the partners of the three countries involved in the project (Cameroon, Kenya, Madagascar) presented the progress of the activities in their countries: 

On Wednesday, a visit to the surveyed areas and trials in Kenya has allowed everyone to visit coffee farms in ​​Murang'a area and so get an idea of the situation of arabica coffee agroforestry systems studied by the Kenyan partners.

The last two days were devoted to: 1. Discussions between the partners and working group leaders (Socio-economics, agronomy, technology) with the aim of highlighting the opportunities to make transversal activities, 2. In the preparation of activities for the coming year (2014) with the objective of enabling partners to achieve the Deliverables  expected at the end of the project.

The program of the week is available here: AFS4FOOD 2nd workshop program

The list of participants is: Kenya workshop list participants .