2017 GFRAS APEN International Conference
The Ville Resort-Casino - Sir Leslie Thiess Drive, Townsville, Queensland
12-15 September
Facilitating Balanced Change for Rural and Urban Communities - Profitability & sustainability, land & sea, private & public, farms & communities
[ Copied from conference APEN webpage]
The conference is being held jointly with GFRAS (http://www.g-fras.org/en/) and follows the 2017 GFRAS Annual General meeting to be held in Ingham, North Queensland. The conference is an international meeting for rural advisory practitioners, researchers and academics that combines the best extension research and practice from developing and developed countries.
In North Queensland we have both wet and dry tropical agriculture and a very large marine park that is managed for a range of uses. We will showcase the integration of production and natural resource management extension in the wet and dry tropics that focuses on achieving outcomes that meet the environmental needs of the rainforest and reef as well as the economic and social needs of dryland and irrigated agricultural production in the tropics.
key conference themes
- Gender balance and affirmative action
- Planning, monitoring and evaluating
- Developing agricultural innovation systems
- Building social capital and resilience
- Incorporating new media in extension
- Policies and trends in rural advisory services
- Achieving health, NRM, production and social outcomes
APEN Conference call for abstracts
We are inviting submission of abstracts of potential presentations at the conference. Options for presenting may include oral presentations of approximately 20 minutes, soap box presentations of approximately 10 minutes and poster presentations, workshops, open space, panel discussion etc . Based on the abstract, your preferences and timeliness of submission and registration, the Conference Program Committee will allocate presentation times and formats.
See Call for Abstracts for more information. Final Call! Still open during June/July.
The Abstract template is available here.
Deadlines & submission - for Final Call
* Paper Abstracts due as soon as you can to roy@agribizrde.com. Use the abstract guidelines and template available above.
* Authors notified 15th August 2017.
* Authors submit paper to journal for review by the conference (only those seeking to publish).
APEN Awards for excellence in extension
APEN Awards for Excellence in Extension - see here for details. Nominations now closed.
Proposed program
The Program for the GFRAS and APEN events is available here.
Guest Speakers
Guest speakers for the APEN Conference and workshop leaders are at: www.apen.org.au/IC-2017-guest-speakers
Registration
Note Registration link below! Early bird prices will close on August 14, 2017.
Queries
Questions about the conference can be directed to Rosemary Currie, APEN Secretariat (info@apen.org.au, +61 2 6024 5349) or
Lawrence Di Bella, Conference Convenor (ldibella@hcspl.com.au, +61 7 47786 1808)
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