The Global Livestock CRSP Final Conference will be held in Naivasha, Kenya from June 16 - 19, 2009.  The conference, sponsored by the GL -CRSP, will be hosted by the Lake Naivasha Sopa Resort. Lake Naivasha is a fresh water Lake in Kenya's Rift Valley, threatened by a series of environmental pressures and interrelated socio-economic issues, an ideal backdrop for the GL-CRSP Conference given the proximity to and parrelells with other GL-CRSP projects, both active and complete.

Key items on the conference agenda will include presentations on findings and lessons learned from GL-CRSP projects over the last eleven years, poster sessions, and panel discussions on multidisciplinary research, project design, community mobilization and zoonotic diseases. Presentations and keynote addresses by partners and friends of the GL-CRSP working in agriculture and livestock development will also be a core part of our meetings.  I would like to invite you to join us and participate in the discussions.

The GL-CRSP has projects based in East and West Africa, Central Asia and Afghanistan, regions that are very relevant to the current international development arena.  Our program, comprised of broad-based interdisciplinary projects, focuses on human nutrition, economic growth, environment and watershed rehabilitation, zoonotic diseases and policy linked by a global theme of agriculture and livestock at risk in a changing environment.  Presentations, panel discussions and keynote speakers will focus on the following themes: Agriculture, Human Health and Nutrition; Research for Development: The Role of Basic, Applied and Action Research in the Development Process; Peacebuilding, Conflict and Development; and Risk, Change, and Pastoralism: Changing Pastoral Livelihoods.

Please direct all questions regarding the conference to the GL-CRSP Management Entity office (Telephone: 530-752-1721; Fax: 530-752-7523; Email: glcrsp@ucdavis.edu). 

To watch an informative video on Lake Naivasha produced by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), detailing the lake's environmental pressures and its importance to the Kenyan economy and local communities, please click on the link below (and scroll down to the film title).

Naivasha : Story of an African Rift Valley lake