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Other meetings tagged on

Immediately prior and after the conference, other symposia were held at the same venue.

 

ProMusa

“Working group on production”

Friday, October 10

Organizer: ProMusa

 

Banana 21

“Better bananas for Africa” (biofortification challenge program)

Friday-Saturday, October 4-5 

Organizer: Queensland University of Technology

 

WRENMedia training for African journalists

“Better science reporting workshop”

Saturday-Thursday, October 4-9

Organizer: WRENMedia

Using this important event as a resource, WRENMedia held a Better Science Reporting Workshop to provide selected radio and print journalists from Africa with an opportunity to improve their understanding of science for development. Click here to download the flyer. It included sessions on content-gathering, photography, news and feature writing, as well as digital editing. Intense and productive, during the conference, the media team worked together as a production house to produce print, radio and online reporting on banana science as well as individual pieces for their own reader/listeners. WRENmedia also ran the “Media Evening”: an open evening event for researchers to get some practical tips and inspiration on making the most of the media to communicate their messages.

 

 

 

During the conference, for each of the three themes, the following special sessions were organized:

 

Markets and trade 

Bananas – the new cash crop opportunity for Africa?

Organizers: Chiquita, McKinsey and Technoserve

Fair-trade lessons learnt from Latin America
Organizers: COLSIBA, EUROBAN and WINFA

 

 

Production

  

Media evening: making the most of the media to communicate messages

Organizer: WRENmedia

 

Regional seed systems for Africa

Organizer: Catholic Relief Service

Innovation systems 

Innovating banana seed systems: country perspectives

Organizer: Bioversity

 

New ideas and methods for bringing science closer to the growers
Organizers: CABI and Global Plant Clinic

 

Online banana databases

Organizers: Bioversity, CIRAD and GlobalHort

 

Musa Documentation and Information Network for Africa (REDIMA): Steering Committee Meeting

Organizer: Bioversity

 

 

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