May 31 - June 3, 2009
Stoney Creek Inn, Columbia, Mo.

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The conference will be hosted by the University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry and the Association for Temperate Agroforestry.

Objectives and Topics:

The intent of the conference is to further stimulate development and adoption of sustainable rural land management practices centered on the integration of trees into the landscape. The conference will provide a forum for individuals associated with or practicing agroforestry to share their experiences and discuss production, environmental and social attributes of different agroforestry practices. Upland and riparian forest buffers, windbreaks and shelterbelts, silvopasture, alley cropping and forest farming practices will be the main foci discussed during the conference. There will be concurrent sessions, a poster session, field trips and time for discussion that focus on the successes, opportunities and constraints of agroforestry.

Target participants include forest and farm landowners, land managers and consultants, business owners and entrepreneurs, scientists, students, foundations, natural resource and forestry professionals, extension specialists, government officials, non-government organizations, environmental consultants, and policy makers.

The conference will include oral and poster presentations that address current and emerging knowledge on temperate agroforestry practices as well as presentations related to the socioeconomic, political and environmental aspects of agroforestry. Special emphasis will be placed on practical examples of agroforestry practices and on technology transfer to producers.

Topics that will be addressed during the conference may include, without being limited to:

• Practical application of agroforestry on the landscape
• Agroforestry education, training, extension, technology transfer
• Quantifying agroforestry’s environmental impacts: soil, water, and air quality, carbon sequestration, biodiversity and wildlife
• The role of agroforestry practices for bioenergy and biomass production
• Application of agroforestry to the production, marketing and value added benefits of specialty crops
• Agroforestry modeling, decision support, tools
• Biophysical and ecophysiological agroforestry research
• Agroforestry tree/crop/animal interactions
• Role of agroforestry in pasture and silvopasture production
• Role of agroforestry in organic production systems
• Cultural and social dimensions
• Agroforestry policy and adoption
• Agroforestry economics, filling in the gaps

Preliminary Schedule:

Optional pre-conference motor coach tours of the MU campus and other points of interest in the Columbia area are being planned for Saturday (May 30) and/or Sunday (May 31). There will be a Sunday evening (May 31) welcome reception held at the Stoney Creek Inn to kick off the conference, followed by an AFTA board meeting and an AFTA membership meeting.

Monday (June 1) activities will be held at the Stoney Creek Inn and will include a plenary session, morning and afternoon concurrent sessions, a luncheon, late-afternoon poster session, and an evening banquet.

The group will leave the hotel in motor coaches on Tuesday morning (June 2) for field tours of the Horticulture and Agroforestry Research Center located in New Franklin and the Shepherd Farms located in Clifton Hill, followed by an evening BBQ dinner and musical entertainment at the Shepherds farm.

Concurrent sessions will continue on Wednesday (June 3) morning followed by a luncheon. An optional post-conference motor coach field tour to visit several local farms with agroforestry demonstration plantings is being planned for Wednesday afternoon. An optional all day post-conference motor coach field tours of agroforestry demonstrations located in southern Missouri is being planned for Thursday (June 4).

First Call for Papers and Author Guidelines:

Abstracts for oral presentations and poster presentations must be submitted electronically by November 1, 2008. Instructions for authors can be found at Author Guidelines for Abstracts

The 11th North American Agroforestry Conference Contact Person:
Ms. Julie Rhoads
Technology Transfer Events Coordinator
University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry
RhoadsJ@missouri.edu
Phone: 573-882-3234

2009 North American Agroforestry Conference Slide Presentation