May 8-11, 2006
The Kunduchi Beach Hotel & Resort
P.O.Box 361
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Phone: +255-22-2125320/2; Fax:+255-22-2125323/986
This workshop will bring together a diverse group of scientists
from Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and the United States who
conduct research on natural resource management, poverty, and food
security in East African agricultural or agro-pastoral systems.
The overall aim of the workshop is to develop the capacity of interdisciplinary
research teams to understand these complex systems more fully and
to make reliable forecasts for policy formulation and development
activities.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZING
COMMITTEE
Pius Yanda, University of Dar Es Salaam
Alice Pell, Cornell University
David Campbell, Michigan State University
WORKSHOP DOCUMENTS
OVERVIEW OF WORKSHOP
SESSIONS
- Day 1: Integration of Social and Natural
Sciences
Sessions on integrating knowledge from the social and biological
sciences to help us understand more fully what promotes exploitation
of versus investment in natural resources in eastern Africa.
- Day 2: Multi-scale Science and Modeling
Sessions explore how data collected at different spatial, temporal
and organizational scales can be effectively combined via several
analytical/modeling approaches. This will include extrapolation
of local information to a broader context and the reverse.
- Day 3: Science and Society / Planning Synthesis
The
morning session will involve discussions on how interdisciplinary
science and modeling can be used to address societal and environmental
problems. The afternoon session will focus on the development
of actual concept notes for proposals for future interdisciplinary
research projects between scientists at African and American
universities. These will be discussed with the representatives
from different funding agencies who will also be in attendance.
- Day 4: Modeling Nuts and Bolts
The final day’s
sessions will offer hands-on, practical training in computer modeling
for participants who expect to use modeling in their future research
endeavors. These technical sessions will focus on both system-dynamics
and agent-based modeling. (The modeling session requires use of
computers. Please bring a laptop if you have one.)
PARTICIPATING
UNIVERSITIES
Ethiopia
Kenya
Tanzania
Uganda
United States
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