Program of the 4th Lusaka Resilience Workshop:"Towards Comprehensive Food Security: Bridging Climate Resilience and Disaster Resilience"
Venue: Kariba Room, Golfview Hotel, Lusaka, Zambia
29 August 2013
Time

Program

09:00-9:30
09:30-09:40

Registration
Welcome from organizers

09:40-09:45
09:45-09:50

Opening address
Opening address

09:50-10:20

Name
Prof. Chieko Umetsu
Mr. Moses Mwale
Mr. Takashi KatoRodgers Mwewa
Deputy Minister
Dr. Cassim Masi

Keynote address:"Building Resilience for Stability in Food and Nutrition
Security: An Essential Ingredient for Development andReducing Inherent Vulnerabilities among the Rural
Communities and Households in Zambia"
10:20-10:40 Group Photo & Tea/coffee break
10:40-11:30 Session 1: Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptation Session chair:to Climate Variations
Mr. Moses Mwale
10:40-11:05

11:05-11:30"Resilience of social-ecological systems for foodsecurity: How do we prepare for climate change anddisaster?""Rainfall Index Insurance as a Means to Enhance
Resilience: Results of Pilot Sales in Southern Province,Zambia"

11:30-12:20 Session 2: Household Resilience to Social andEnvironmental Shocks: Nutrition and Safety Net
11:30-11:55

11:55-12:20

Affiliation
Nagasaki University,Zambia Agricultural ResearchInstitute (ZARI)
Embassy of Japan in Zambia
Minstry of Agriculture andLivestock (MAL)
Executive Director, National Foodand Nutrition Commission ofZamiba (NFNC)

ZARIProf. Chieko Umetsu

Nagasaki University, Japan
Resilience Project Leader

Prof. Takeshi Sakurai

Hitotsubashi University, Japan

Session chair:Prof. Chieko Umetsu

Nagasaki University"Nutritional status of rural children in sub-SaharanProf. Taro Yamauchi
Africa: Secular changes in child growth in Southern
Province, Zambia""Discussion on the Informal Safety Net by Mobile Phone Dr. Yudai Ishimotoin Southern Zambia"

Hokkaido University

Research Institute for Humanityand Nature (RIHN), Japan

12:20-13:20 Lunch
13:20-14:10 Session 3: Crop and Livestock Resilience to Social Session chair:and Environmental Shocks
Dr. Yudai Ishimoto

RIHN

13:20-13:45"The Status of Livestock in Zambia"

MAL

13:45-14:10"Rural livelihood security and crisis responses in Central Dr. Matheaus Kioko Kauti
Kenya: The case of crop variety and livestock breed
selection"

14:10-15:00 Session 4: Social-Ecological Resilience and Food
Security: Water and Soil
14:10-14:35

14:35-15:00

Session chair:Prof. Taro Yamauchi"Agricultural Water Management: a tool for building
Dr. Victor Kongo
resilience of smallholder farmers to climate change
shocks in sub-Saharan Africa""Food security resilience and vulnerability in the context Mr. Sesele B. Sokotela
of soils and crops productivity: a climate change
adaptation and farming systems development strategy"

15:00-15:20 Tea/coffee break
15:20-15:55 Session 5: Social-Ecological Resilience and Food
Security: Fisheries
15:20-15:55

Mr. Andrew Chongwe

Session chair:
Mr. Sesele Sokotela"Aquaculture Agricultural Systems Platform Role in the Dr. Tabeth Matiza Chiuta
Food Security Chain"

15:55-16:50 Discussion "Towards Comprehensive FoodSession chair:
Security: Bridging Climate Resilience and Disaster Prof. Takeshi Sakurai
Resilience"
16:50-17:00

Closing address

Mr. Moses Mwale
Prof. Chieko Umetsu

South Eastern Kenya University(SEKU), Kenya

Hokkaido University
University of Dar es Salaam,Tanzania
ZARI, Zambia

ZARI
The Worldfish Center, Zambia

Hitotsubashi University
ZARI
Nagasaki University