4th International Convention AGRODESARROLLO 2016
11TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP “TREES AND SHRUBS IN TROPICAL LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION”
5TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM “EXTENSION WORK, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERENCE,
SOCIOECONOMIC ASPECTS AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT”
4TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP “AGROENERGY AND FOOD SECURITY”
Varadero, Cuba
October 23-30, 2016
http://agrodesarrollo2016.ihatuey.cu/
Dear colleagues:
Only a few days after the end of the Summit of the United Nations on Sustainable
Development 2015, the Research Station Indio Hatuey, science and technology organization
of the University of Matanzas, launches its call for the reception of works and the participation
in the 4th International Convention AGRODESARROLLO 2016, which will take place from
October 23 to 30, 2016, in Varadero beach, Cuba. The Convention includes pre-event tour
(October 23-24), scientific event (October 25-27) and post-event course (October 28-30).
The main purpose of our event is that the works are in agreement with the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDG) and the Post-2015 Agenda which were approved in that Summit,
representing a thematic enlargement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) with
deadline for year 2015, but with higher emphasis on the environmental concerns and the
economic growth.
Aunque la principal preocupación de la Agenda para el Desarrollo Post-2015 es la extinción
de la pobreza masiva, la agenda considera otros objetivos y metas para lograr un desarrollo
sostenible a largo plazo, entre los que destacan:
1. Defeat hunger: achieve food security and adequate nutrition for all, and promote a sustainable
agriculture model.
2. Promote strong, inclusive and sustainable development, and decent work for all.
3. Ensure access to affordable, sustainable, reliable and modern energy services for all.
4. Achieve gender equality and empower women and girls throughout the world.
5. Promote a sustainable consumption and production model.
6. Promote actions at all levels to face the climate change.
7. Enhance and improve the execution means and world partnership for sustainable
development.
8. Protect and restore terrestrial ecosystems and halt all biodiversity loss.
In this sense, the Organizing Committee of the event proposes the following work topics in its
different workshops, all led by a central idea “AGROENERGY AS BASIS OF SUSTAINABLE
AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT”
TOPICS
1. Agroenergy, climate change and food sovereignty.
2. Integrated agroecological systems for food and energy production.
3. Sustainable rural development and family agriculture for human welfare.
4. Gender equity and inclusion in agriculture.
5. Agricultural production with emphasis on the use of livestock production agroforestry systems.
6. Sustainable management of lands of agricultural and livestock production use.
7. Local agricultural innovation and extension work on agroecological bases.
8. Agroecological practices for animal and plant health.
WORK ADMISSION
Those interested in participating should send, via e-mail: 1) an abstract, up to 350 words; 2)
an extended abstract (no more than 5 pages) which should contain the objectives, materials
and methods used, most important results –illustrated in the form of figures and/or tables–,
conclusions and main bibliographic references; and 3) with an 8½ x 11 paper size, in Spanish
(works in English or Portuguese language will also be accepted), before July 15, 2016. Arial
11 font and 1,5 line spacing must be used in the papers. They will begin with: title, authors
and their respective institutions, in addition to the full postal address and e-mail address.
The works sent after the above-mentioned date could be accepted, but the Organizing
Committee will not guarantee their inclusion in the Workshop proceedings.
Registration fee:
For foreign delegates
$200.00 CUC (equivalent to ± 233.00 USD)
$140.00 CUC undergraduate students (± 163.00 USD)
For Cuban delegates
$200.00 CUP
$140.00 CUP undergraduate students
The payment of the registration fee by undergraduate students will take place after they
present the document or ID card that acknowledges them as such. Postgraduate students are
not included in this payment modality.
CUC is the Cuban Convertible Peso, 1.00 USD is equivalent to 0.86 CUC. This currency can
be obtained upon your arrival in the country: at the airport, hotels, banks or exchange offices.
The registration fee includes: event materials, participation in the scientific sessions, and
certificate of participation as delegate or speaker. It does not cover travel or accommodation
expenses;
The foreign delegates who will participate only in the scientific event are advised to arrive
in Cuba on October 23 and stay at a hotel in Havana, because on the 24 a transfer in bus will
be organized from the capital to the hotel which will host the event in Varadero, where the
registration fee will be paid in the afternoon-evening. On the 28, after the closing ceremony of
the event, they will be transferred from Varadero to the Hotels in Havana. The
accommodation offers for the foreign delegates who will participate only in the scientific
event are offered below:
Accommodation packages per person (pax)
Scientific Event (October 25-28)
If you arrive in Cuba on October 23 and return to Havana on October 28 (two nights in
Havana and four in Varadero)
First choice
Havana, Hotel Comodoro  CP – Varadero, Hotel Meliá Varadero AI
Single room
$984.00
Double room
$732.00
Second choice
Havana, Hotel Copacabana  CP - Varadero, Hotel Meliá Varadero AI
Single room
$990.00
Double room
$738.00
Third choice
Havana, Hotel Chateau Miramar  CP-Varadero, Hotel Meliá Varadero AI
Single room
$990.00
Double room
$738.00
If you arrive in Cuba on October 24, travel straight to Varadero and return to Havana on
the 28 (four nights in Varadero and one night in Havana)
Hotel Meliá Varadero AI
Single room
$913.00
Double room
$675.00
These prices are expressed in Cuban Convertible Pesos (CUC) and include:
 Accommodation one or two nights in any of the Havana hotels with the CP modality
(includes only breakfast)
 Accommodation four nights at the Meliá Varadero with the AI (All inclusive) modality
 Transfer from Airport on October 23 to Hotel in Havana. Transfer on October 24 from Hotel
in Havana to Hotel in Varadero. Transfer on October 28 from Hotel in Varadero to Hotel in
Havana. Transfer on October 29 from Hotel in Havana to Airport.
 Personalized assistance.
The foreign delegates who will only participate in the scientific event and who arrive
before October 23, or those who will travel after October 29, are advised to contact the
specialists of the Havanatur agency, receptor of the event, so that they organize the package
according to the days they will stay.
In the case of the Cuban delegates, the accommodation costs will be informed to them at the
moment their paper is approved.
The costs related to the pre-congress tour and the post-event course will be informed in
the Third Announcement, to be launched soon.
For more information about the event, please, contact:
Lic. Nayda Armengol López
[email protected]
EEPF Indio Hatuey
Matanzas, Cuba. CP. 44280
Telephone: (53 45) 57 1475, 57 1235
Telefax: (53 45) 57 1225
Dr. C. Fernando Funes Aguilar
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
EEPF Indio Hatuey, La Habana, Cuba
Telephone: (53) (7) 2038317
Cell phone: 54023676
For more information about the accommodation packages, please, contact:
Roldan Leyva Alfonso
Specialist in Incentives
Tritón Events
Branch Havanatur La Habana
[email protected]
Telephone: (537) 201-9861