The Ninth North American Agroforestry Conference of the Association for Temperate Agroforestry (AFTA) will be held June 12 - June 15, 2005 at the Kahler Grand Hotel, Rochester, Minnesota. The theme for this conference, Moving Agroforestry into the Mainstream, is intended to attract those people interested in the production and environmental benefits of agroforestry.
The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Integrated Natural Resources and Agricultural Management (CINRAM) at the University of Minnesota, Southwest Badger Resource Conservation and Development Council in Southwestern Wisconsin, and AFTA.
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Call for Papers
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Economics, markets and enterprise development for agroforestry
- Role of agroforestry in watershed management - hydrologic, water quality, and other natural resources benefits
- Generating income while providing environmental benefits of agroforestry - wildlife habitat, carbon sequestration, aesthetics on the landscape, soil conservation, water quality, etc.
- Adoption of agroforestry systems - what is working and where?
- Examples of agroforestry as combined production systems Agroforestry systems for bioenergy production
- Policy issues in agroforestry adoption Education, training, and outreach in agroforestry
The intent of this conference is to provide a forum for practitioners, scientists, NGOs, and agency representatives to share their experiences and discuss production and environmental attributes of different agroforestry systems. There will be concurrent sessions on various themes, poster sessions, field trips and panel discussions that focus on successes of agroforestry.
Abstracts of no more than 250 words can be submitted online or by mail to Dean Current, CINRAM, 115 Green Hall, 1530 Cleveland Ave. North, St. Paul, MN 55108-6112 (or e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by 15 September 2004. Conference information will be posted both on the AFTA website and the conference website at http://cinram.umn.edu/afta2005.
By Dean Current
University of Minnesota