Convenors: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), International Centre for Soil Fertility and Agricultural Development (IFDC), International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), United Nations Convention to Combat Desertifi cation (UNCCD) and Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA)

All speakers presented arguments why combining productive sanitation with rain water harvesting and conservation agriculture will give large synergies. This combination of good management practices has not been tried at large scale yet, but many of us left the seminar with the intention of implementing this combination. List of presentations: 1) Visions: Enhanced Health and Food Security Hon. J. Namuyangu Byakatonda, Minister of State for Water & Environment, Uganda 2) Challenges and Opportunities for Smallholder Farmers in Arid Zones Executive Secretary Luc Gnacadja, Benin, UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) 3) Improving Small Scale Agriculture in a Changing Climate Prof. Rattan Lal, College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Science, Ohio State University, USA 4) Achieving Food Security and Accelerated Sanitation Coverage through Water Harvesting and Conservation Technologies: Case Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa Director Maimbo Mabanga Malesu, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Kenya 5) Experiences and Opportunities for Human Excreta Fertilizers in Improving Small Scale Agriculture Dr. Moussa Bonzi, Centre Regional Pour l’Eau Potable et l’Assainissement à Faible Coût (CREPA), Burkina Faso 6) The SuSanA Working Group on Food Security and Productive Sanitation Systems and the New Triple-Green Project Dr. Pay Drechsel, IWMI, Ghana 7) IFAD support to the Triple Green Approach Laurent Stravato, IFAD

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Various Authors (2008). Seminar on Food Security on World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden Conference materials

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