Sunday
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Arrival and registration |
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Monday
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| 8:00 - 8:30 |
Inauguration: Mr. Abel Pacheco, President of
Costa Rica, Jose Zaglul, EARTH University's Rector, John Jeavons,
Executive Director, Ecology Action |
8:30 - 9:00
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World Agriculture Towards the Years 2015-2030:
FAO Representative |
| 9:00 - 9:30 |
GROW BIOINTENSIVE –The Answer? John Jeavons |
| 9:30 - 10:00 |
Recess |
| 10:00 - 10:40 |
Food Security and Sovereignty: John Jeavons |
| 10:40 - 11:10 |
Organic Agriculture in the Tropics: Jaime E.
García |
11:10 - 11:40
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Organic Agriculture in Costa Rica: Felicia Echeverria |
| 11:40 - 12:20 |
Life in the Tropical Soil, Why Do Tropical Soils
Consume So Much Energy? And What to Do to Maintain Fertility:
Ana Primavesi |
| 12:20 - 13:00 |
How to Face the World's Weather Changes: PNUMA
Representative |
| 13:00 - 15:00 |
Lunch |
| 15:00 - 17:00 |
Tour Around EARTH University's Organic Farm
and Facilities |
| 17:00 - 17:30 |
Child Malnutrition in Latin America: UNICEF |
| 17:30 - 18:00 |
Ecofilia: Padre Julio Cesar de la Garza |
| 18:00 - 18:30 |
Biointensive Energy Conservation: Steve Moore |
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Tuesday
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| 8:00 - 10:00 |
Soils Panel: Kate Scow, Soil Microbiology; Feliciano
Ruiz,
Latin America's Soils; John Doran, Soil Analysis |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Recess |
| 10:30 - 12:30 |
Water Panel: * (to be announced) |
| 12:30 - 13:00 |
Open Pollinated Seeds/Germoplasm: Dominique
Guillete |
| 13:00 - 15:00 |
Lunch |
| 15:00 - 15:40 |
Why Not Transgenics: Fabián Pacheco |
| 15:40 - 16:30 |
Compost: Reinhold Muschler, Costa Rica |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Organic Fertilizers: Don Lotter |
| 17:00 - 19:00 |
Poster Session |
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Wednesday
Experiences with the Biointensive Method
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| 8:00 - 8:20 |
The Biointensive Method in Latin America: Mercedes
Torres Barreiro, Ecuador;
Juan Manuel Martínez, Mexico |
| 8:20 - 10:40 |
Fernando Pía, CIESA Argentina. Roberto
Pozo, ACLO, Bolivia. Jack Perella, “El Lago” farm,
Costa Rica. José Luis Salomón, Fundación
Paraguaya, Paraguay. |
| 10:40 - 11:00 |
Colombian Refugees and the Biointensive Method
in Ecuador’s Borderline: Representative of the United
Nation’s High Commissioner for Refugees, ANCUR, Ecuador |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Recess |
| 11:30 - 11:50 |
Ángel Mario Suero, Universidad Agraria
de la Habana, Cuba |
| 11:50 - 13:15 |
Ricardo Romero, Bosque de Niebla, Mexico; Moisés
Cuevas Vasques, AALTERMEX, Mexico; Guillermo Romero, Mexico.
Gaspar y Patricia Mayagoitia, México |
| 13:15 - 15:00 |
Lunch |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Work Group Organization to Analyze the Basic-Level
Training Manual, to Draw Up a Work Plan Per Country for the
Next Five Years, to Form Networks and to Identify Strategies. |
| 15:30 - 17:00 |
Group Work |
| 17:00 - 18:00 |
Group Work Conclusions |
| 18:00
- 19:00 |
General Conclusions and Comments |