The symposium will be co-organized by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and Centre de Recherche Agronomique pour le dévelopment (Cirad) as part of IHC 2022.
Place: Congress Center, Angers, France
Congress Dates: 14-20 August 2022
Symposium dates: 15-17 August 2022
For more information: https://www.ihc2022.org/symposia/s21-international-symposium-on-banana-celebrating-banana-organic-production/
Contact: k.lehrer@ cgiar.org
Registration
Registration is open. Consult the congress website for complete information (https://www.ihc2022.org/registration/). Please note that there are various registration categories including “super early bird” (deadline extended to 20 December) and “early bird” as well as virtual. There is also a 10% reduction for 10 or more people registering from the same institute.
Available grants
Several organizations and foundations have joined efforts to award grants to attend the 31st International Horticulture Congress.
Application deadline: 30 January 2022
More information: https://www.ihc2022.org/grants-for-ihc2022/
Call for abstracts
The symposium organizers invite authors to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentation under the themes:
- 1 Current state of organic production in the world: challenges and innovations
- 2 Organic nutrition (plant): experience, and new directions
- 3 Challenges of pest and disease control without conventional pesticides
- 4 Marketing organic bananas: The role of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on certification and emerging trends
Details on what can be included in these themes are elaborated below.
Abstract submission guidelines
The deadline for abstract pre-submission is 6 December 2021.
Submit your abstract by email to the following address: k.lehrer@ cgiar.org
IMPORTANT: Please be sure to put “Abstract submission” in the subject of your message and include your contact information in the footer or signature of your email message.
The abstract needs to be submitted as a Microsoft Word or other text file (no PDF). It should not be longer than 300 words. In the header of the Word file, please be sure to indicate to which theme your abstract pertains and whether you intend your paper for oral or poster presentation. Please note that all oral presentations will require the submission of a full paper, which will be published in a volume of Acta Horticulturae. If this is not agreed to by the author(s), the work can be presented as a poster.
You can find the full abstract submission guidelines here: https://www.ishs.org/authors
Review process
All submitted abstracts will go through a review process and authors will be notified if their abstract has been accepted for poster or oral presentation.
Abstracts will initially be prescreened by the Scientific Committee to make sure that they conform to the symposium theme as well as to the session to which they are submitted; no abstract will be considered unless it goes through this first step.
After the prescreening, the authors will be informed about how to submit their abstract(s) to the ISHS via the online interface. If you are already a member of ISHS, the submission charge is waived as part of your membership benefits and you will be prompted to verify your contact details. If you are not a current member of the ISHS you will be required to pay a fee (€95 for European individual, and €80 non-European individual) before submitting your abstract on-line. By paying this fee you will either become a new member of the ISHS or reactivate an existing membership. Please note that as a member of ISHS, there will be a reduction of the symposium registration fee.
Symposium themes
Session 1: Current state of organic production in the world: challenges and innovations
- Production statistics: trade, trends, price comparisons including plantain and other cooking banana
- Experiences in local production
- Analysis of commercialization
- Diversity of production systems (species, varieties, crop association & rotations, agroforestry, cattle integration farming, biodynamic practices, etc.)
- Comparison between dry and wet tropics zones
- Economy gaps on small and larger farms
- Participatory process, local knowledge
- Synergies across food systems
- Healthy diets: Organic Food and Nutritional Quality: role of organic products to human health; is the quality of nutritional value different in terms of comparison of organic to non-organic.
- Improving livelihoods
- Socio-economic challenges (e.g. gender) in managing organic banana systems
Session 2: Organic nutrition (plant): experience, and new directions
- Diversity & efficiency of organic fertilizers (including organic matter methods)
- Beneficial micro-organisms to improve plant nutrition
- Alternative to synthetic N fertilizers (Urea, Ammonium fertilizers)
- Quality of banana nutrition in organic systems
- Detection of fraud (C/N isotopic methods, others)
- Cost & economy of organic nutrition, bananas (production & trade)
- Carbon footprint compared to conventional
- Water management, water footprint (dry and wet regions)
- Climate change impacts
- Drought management
Session 3: Challenges of pest and disease control without conventional pesticides
- Management of Black Sigatoka disease: efficiency of organic products, status of mineral oil, cultural practices, etc…
- Management of root nematodes: organic products, cultural practices, etc…
- Management of black weevils: trapping, efficiency of synthetic pheromones, physical barriers, entomo-pathogens use, …
- Thrips, mealybugs & aphid control experiences in organic production
- Weed management without herbicides
- Post-harvest disease control without fungicides
- Emergence of specific pest and diseases in organic production systems
- Impact of fertilisation and cropping systems on pest & diseases control
- Critical evaluation of biopesticides for pest and disease management in organic production
- Environmental safety of organic pesticides
- Resistant & tolerant varieties (Musa diversity & conventional & genome editing genetic improvement programs)
- Safe movement of germplasm at local, regional, national, and global levels
- FOC (R1-R4-TR4) mitigation and organic production
- Biocontrol approaches for pest and disease mitigation.
- Intercropping and crop rotation approaches for disease mitigation (linked to: Impact of fertilisation and cropping systems on pest & diseases control).
Session 4: Marketing organic bananas: The role of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on certification and emerging trends
- Economy & costs on the diversity of certification labels
- Public certification
- Private certification
- Official standards and regulations: differences between countries & continents (ex. USA, Europe, Japan, …), including transition status & delays
- Analytical methods for organic certification: methods and data
- Challenges of certification for local markets especially for small producers in developing countries
- Future trends in the value chains
- Improving livelihoods
- Healthy nutritional diets
- New markets
- Efficiency and recycling: using fewer external resources
- The organizational and change management challenges of organic production for small producer organizations in view of stricter legislation, aging farmers, and competitive pressure.