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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS & PAPERS How to submit your abstract ?

Researchers on cocoa and cocoa related issues from the public and private sectors are hereby invited to submit their abstracts to be considered for presentation at the ISCR 2021 and for publication as full papers in the ISCR 2021 Proceedings. The ISCR 2021 Scientific Committee will screen the submitted abstracts for selection. More information on the Scientific Committee members can be found here.

Guidelines for the submission of Abstracts

Abstracts should be submitted only in English and via the online Submission form below. After submitting your abstract, you will receive an automated confirmation e-mail
Researchers can submit their abstracts from 18th January 2020 till 20th March 2021
Notifications of acceptance of all selected abstracts will be sent out early in April 2021.
Abstracts should address one of the topics of the ISCR 2021 presented beside. Abstracts which most closely fit with the main theme and topics of the conference will be selected.
Abstracts should be limited to a maximum of 400 words.
The deadline for the submission of full papers based on the selected abstracts is 31st July 2021.
Guidelines for the submission of full papers will be available shortly.

Symposium Themes for Abstracts

Innovations to support market development and promote the sustainability of cocoa farming for better farmers’ income.

Thematic 01 // Cocoa Cultivation: Innovative Approaches and Practices for Sustainable Production

Cocoa Cultivation: Innovative Approaches and Practices for Sustainable Production

Integrated Pest management and GAP techniques (Shade and irrigation; improved crop, pest and diseases, shade, soil, water and soil/fertility management)
Farm rehabilitation techniques
Knowledge of the genome and of the functioning of the plant
Farmers techniques and know how
Institutional, policy management systems

Thematic 02 // Sustainable Cocoa and Climate Change: The way forward through Mitigation and Adaptation

Sustainable Cocoa and Climate Change: The way forward through Mitigation and Adaptation

Renewable energy, clean water, health, food security and improved nutrition for the cocoa farmers
Impact of climate changes on cocoa farming, on the spatial repartition of cocoa zones in the world
Rescue, characterisation and exploitation of biodiversity for varietal creation in a context of climate change
Diversification techniques (other crops, non-farm activities) – environnemental and economic perspective
Agroforestry, sylvo-pasture, aquaculture techniques (agronomy, ecology and the economics thereof)
Reforestation /Afforestation programmes
Payments for Environmental Services (PES): myths and reality
Landscape approach
Training and capacity building on climate smart agriculture techniques
Climate information and surveillance systems
Other new climate adaptation techniques; energy efficient technologies along the value chain

Thematic 03 // Innovations to support the Cocoa Processing & Market Development

Innovations to support the Cocoa Processing & Market Development

Food safety compliance systems (pesticides and other contaminants) of cocoa products (mapping and agronomic solutions, breeding and genetic manipulations, remediation techniques etc)
Innovative processing methods and transformation processes
Valorisation of quality attributes (The multidimensionality of cocoa quality -sensory and aromatic analysis, consumer preferences, improvement strategies, differentiation and enhancement of quality certification, quality recognition programmes etc)
Valorisation of nutritional attributes of cocoa products
Valorisation of cocoa by-products for food and non-food products (candies, fertilizers, biogas and digestates, cosmetics, etc).
Other innovations (packaging, etc)
Traceability systems
Access to micro credit, crop insurance coverage, financial risk management
Digital applications

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