J. Wayne Reitz Union
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
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Working Forests
in the Tropics:
Policy and Market Impacts on
Conservation and Management
February 14-15,
2005
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School of Forest Resources and
Conservation
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Conference
Introduction
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| Overview
and Invitation
 Efforts to promote conservation and management of tropical
forests are profoundly influenced by a wide range of public policies and an
equally diverse variety of markets. The influence of extra-sectoral policies on
forest conservation and management may overwhelm that of even the most well
intended forest sector policies, particularly where other sectors such as
agriculture are more dominant economically and politically.
Similarly, the ebb and flow of market demand for
agricultural commodities may have a larger impact on tropical forests than
markets for forest products. Policies and markets can affect conservation and
management efforts at local, state, national and international levels. As formal
recognition of the land and resource rights of indigenous peoples and other
rural communities increases, their roles as stakeholders in discussions of
public policies and market access have grown.
This conference was developed as
a forum to examine impacts of public polices and markets on tropical forests and
the people who live in them, and to identify policy initiatives and market-based
incentives that may be useful for promoting forest conservation and management.
Purpose
The purpose of this
conference is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for sharing and synthesis of
information about tropical forest conservation and management.
The conference
will also offer networking opportunities for participants.
 Who Should
Attend
This conference
is designed to bring together academic and non-academic researchers and
professionals (national and international agencies, NGO and private sector) and
students interested in tropical forest, conservation, management, economics, and
policy.
Conference Structure
Oral sessions have been organized around four primary topics. Each session
will include invited and contributed papers selected by the session moderator in
consultation with the steering committee.
In addition to the oral sessions, there will be a poster session open to
submissions on any aspect of tropical forest conservation, economics, management,
or policy. Keynote addresses will be given by Adalberto Veríssimo, Instituto do
Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazônia and Dr. David Kaimowitz, Director General of
the Center for International Forestry Research.
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Primary
Conference Topics |
1. The Global Marketplace: Impacts on Tropical Forests and the People Who
Live in Them (Moderator: Janaki R.R. Alavalapati) 
Increasing globalization is linking tropical forests and
forest stakeholders with the rest of the world at a greater pace than ever
before.
This session will examine the impact of global trade on
tropical forest conservation and development.
2. Agricultural
and Infrastructure Development vs. Tropical Forest Conservation: Winners and
Losers When Sectoral Policies Conflict
(Moderator: Georgia
Carvalho)
Public policy
directives have often stimulated land use changes in tropical forest regions,
especially those related to infrastructure and agricultural development.
This session will
explore the linkages between sectoral policies and their unintended effects on
tropical forests as keys to formulating better policies and sound forest
conservation strategies.
3.
Community Development, Forest Conservation and Market Penetration: A Clash of
Cultures (Moderator:
Marianne Schmink)
 Devolution of control
over resources, and growing interest in community-based conservation, have led
many conservationists and donors to promote community-market linkages as a
strategy for conservation and sustainable development.
This session will
critically assess markets as a means to promote community-based conservation and
development initiatives
4. Working
Forests in Indigenous Landscapes
(Moderators: Michael Heckenberger and J. Richard Stepp)
Indigenous peoples have been shaping and transforming
tropical forest landscapes for millennia.
This session
explores the connections between indigenous peoples and working forests, with
a focus on indigenous peoples as stakeholders in ecological, economic, and
political discourses related to forest conservation and management.
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Call for Abstracts |
All individuals involved in tropical forest conservation,
ecology, management or policy are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract
for consideration as an oral or poster presentation.
Oral presentations must address the session themes, and
the number selected will be limited by time constraints of the sessions.
Poster presentations are open to any area within tropical
forestry, broadly defined. A special poster session/reception will be held,
and posters will be on display during both days of the conference.
All abstracts will be published in the conference book of
abstracts and posted on the website of the School of Forest Resources &
Conservation (www.sfrc.ufl.edu)
following the conference.
If you wish to make an oral presentation or present a
poster, please submit an abstract no later than October 15, 2004.
Abstracts must be submitted electronically at following the guidelines below.
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The Deadline
for submission of abstracts has passed |
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Agenda |
Sunday, February 13, 2005
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9:00am |
Depart on Field Trip from the Holiday Inn University
Center |
Monday, February 14, 2005
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AM |
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7:00 |
Registration
Open at Reitz Union (Until 5:00pm) |
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7:00-8:30 |
Poster Set up |
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8:30-8:35 |
Welcome –
Timothy White, Director, School of Forest Resources and Conservation,
UF/IFAS |
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8:35-8:40 |
Opening
Remarks – Daniel Zarin, Conference Chair, School of Forest
Resources and Conservation, UF/IFAS |
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8:40-9:30 |
Keynote
Address: Forest Management and Conservation in the Brazilian
Amazon – Adalberto Veríssimo, Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente
da Amazônia |
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9:30-10:00 |
Refreshment
Break |
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Session I: The Global Marketplace:
Impacts on Tropical Forests and the People Who Live in Them |
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Moderator:
Janaki Alavalapati, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, UF/IFAS |
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10:00-10:30 |
Managing the
Next Great Agricultural Transition – Daniel C. Nepstad, Woods
Hole Research Center |
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10:30-11:00 |
Policy Shock
Transmission and Deforestation: Identifying Critical Pathways –
Andrea Cattaneo, USDA Economic Research Service |
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11:00-11:30 |
When
Globalization Helps Conserving Tropical Forests: The Examples of Payments
for Environmental Services and of Petroleum Production – Sven Wunder,
Center for International Forestry Research |
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11:30-12:00 |
The Impact of
Foreign Direct Investments on Forests in Latin America and Asia –
Susanna Laaksonen-Craig, University of Toronto |
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12:00-1:30 |
Lunch on Your
Own |
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12:30-1:15 |
Special
Session: Tasso Azevedo, Diretor de Florestas, Secretária de
Biodiversidade e Florestas, Ministério do Meio Ambiente, Brazil |
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Session II: Agricultural and
Infrastructure Development
vs. Tropical Forest Conservation:
Winners and Losers When Sectoral Policies Conflict |
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Moderator:
Georgia Carvalho, Woods Hole Research Center |
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PM |
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1:30-2:00 |
When do
Agricultural Technologies Save the Forest? – Arild Angelsen,
University of Norway |
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2:00-2:30 |
Agrarian
Reform and Forest Area Rationalization: Indonesia’s Fundamental Natural
Resource Management Challenge – Chip Fay and Martua Sirait,
World Agroforestry Center |
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2:30- 3:00 |
The Political
Ecology of Forest Policy in the Peruvian Amazon – Carlos Soria
and Ernesto F. Ráez-Luna, Defensoría del Pueblo & Conservation
International |
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3:00-3:30 |
Refreshment
Break |
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3:30-4:00 |
Long-term
Conservation in the Brazilian Amazon: Getting Results on the Ground –
Adriana Moreira, The World Bank |
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4:00-4:30 |
Camisea:
Lessons to Improve Future Hydrocarbon Activities in the Peruvian Amazon
– Michael Valqui, World Wildlife Fund |
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4:30-5:00 |
Scenarios for
Vertebrate Distributions in a Changing Amazônia – Claudia Azevedo-Ramos,
Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia |
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5:00-7:00 |
Poster Session
& Networking Social |
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
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AM |
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7:00 |
Registration Open at Reitz Union (Until 5:00pm) |
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Session III: Community Development,
Forest Conservation
and Market Penetration: A Clash of Cultures |
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Moderator:
Marianne Schmink, Center for Latin American Studies, UF |
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8:30-9:00 |
Trends in Global Forest Tenure and Community Enterprise Responses in the
Tropical Countries – Augusta Molnar, Forest Trends |
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9:00-9:30 |
Market Myths and Forest Livelihoods – Patricia Shanley, Center
for International Forestry Research |
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9:30-10:00 |
Producer-Based Conservation Initiatives in the Context of the Commons
– Richard Smith, Instituto del Bien Común |
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10:00-10:30 |
Refreshment Break |
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10:30-10:45 |
The Expansion of Community Forest Management in Brazilian Amazonia:
Opportunities and Limits – Gordon Armstrong, Instituto
Internacional de Educação do Brasil |
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10:45-11:00 |
Barriers to Forest Certification in Developing Tropical Countries –
Maia S. Becker, University of Toronto |
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11:00-11:15 |
A Decision-Support Tool to Predict the Livelihood Impact of NTFP
Commercialization – Elaine Marshall, United Nations Environment
Program |
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11:15-11:30 |
The Role of Economic Alternatives and a Sense of Community in the
Long-Term Viability of Forest Management: The Sustainability of the Family
Forests Project – Mary Menton, University of Oxford |
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11:30-11:45 |
Forest Communities and the Commodification of Lesser-Known Species in
Central Quintana Roo, Mexico – Alex E. Racelis, University of
California – Santa Cruz |
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11:45-12:00 |
Working Exports in the Tropics: A Comparitive Discussion of Two “Green”
Exporting Economies in the SW Amazon - Madre de Dios and Puno, Peru –
Ernesto F. Ráez-Luna, Conservation International |
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PM |
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12:00-1:30 |
Lunch on Your
Own |
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12:30-1:15 |
Special
Session: Mércio Gomes, President, Fundacão Nacional do Índio,
Brazil |
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Session IV: Working Forests in
Indigenous Landscapes |
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Moderators:
Michael Heckenberger and J. Richard Stepp, Department of
Anthropology, UF |
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1:30-2:00 |
The Challenge
of Indigenous Peoples Development: Implications for Conservation and
Education – Filiberto Penados, Tumul Kin Center of Learning |
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2:00-2:30 |
Assessing the Viability of Working Forests in Crocker
Range Park, Sabah, Malaysia – Gary Martin, Global
Diversity Foundation |
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2:30-3:00 |
Large-Scale
Landscapes, Small-Scale Societies: Panará Natural Resource Concepts,
Indigenous Lands, and Amazon Forest Conservation – Stephan
Schwartzman, Environmental Defense |
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3:00-3:30 |
Conservation
Politics and Indigenous Lands in the Amazon Basin – David Cleary,
The Nature Conservancy |
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3:30-4:00 |
Refreshment
Break |
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4:00-4:50 |
Closing
Keynote: Globalization and Tropical Forests – David Kaimowitz,
Center for International Forestry Research |
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4:50-5:00 |
Closing
Remarks – Daniel Zarin, Conference Chair, School of Forest
Resources and Conservation, UF/IFAS |
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7:00-11:00 |
Closing Dinner
Banquet
(Emerson Alumni Hall, 2012 W. University Avenue) |
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Pre-Conference Field Trip:
Ecosystems of North Central Florida |
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Prof. F. E. “Jack” Putz, University of Florida, Department of Botany
(Participants Must Pre-Register – Field Trip is Limited
to 40 Participants)
Sunday, February 13, 2005
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9:00am |
Depart from the Holiday Inn
University Center |
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4:00pm |
Return to the Holiday Inn
University Center |
 We will
commence this tour of some of the ecosystems of Florida with a visit to the
well-maintained longleaf pine savannas, slashpine flatwoods, and a cypress dome
(with boardwalk) in Morningside Nature Center.
Next we
will venture into Cypress Highlands for a barbecue under the live oaks.
After
lunch we will walk through an old-growth cypress strand (no boardwalk) on the
margin of Newnans Lake (known to the local cognoscente as Lake Pithlachochoo)
and an old-growth bayhead where you can have your picture taken next to the
world’s champion slash pine.
Despite
the presence of pines dating back to the Second Seminole Indian War, bayheads
are long-hydroperiod wetlands dominated by broadleaved evergreens.
Sun screen, hats
and
field clothing are recommended, including shoes and pants that can get wet if
water levels are high.
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Conference
Registration
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The early registration fee for the conference is $100.00 ($50.00 for
students) on or before November 8, 2004.
After that date the regular fee will be $150.00 ($75.00 for students).
The registration fee includes a conference packet, abstract booklet, a poster
reception, refreshment breaks and the closing dinner banquet.
We are delighted you
wish to register for the Working Forests in the Tropics
conference.
Advanced registration is closed, however, we will be
happy to register you onsite at the conference.
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Refund Policy: Requests for registration refunds will be honored if
the University of Florida/IFAS Office of Conferences and Institutes receives a
written notice of cancellation on or before December 13, 2005.
A $20.00 processing fee will be deducted from all refunds. Refunds will not
be given after December 13, 2005.
Special Needs: In compliance with ADA requirements,
participants with special needs can be reasonably accommodated by contacting the
Office of Conferences & Institutes at least two weeks prior to the conference.
We can be reached by phone at 1-352-392-5930, by fax at 1-352-392-9734, or by
calling 1-800-955-8771 (TDD). The TDD number can only be accessed from within
the United States.
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Hotel
Accommodations |
A block of guest rooms has
been reserved at
The
Holiday Inn University Center
for a special rate of $69 plus 9% tax for single or double occupancy (To receive
tax exempt status, payment must be made in the form of a government issued check
or credit card and be accompanied by a Florida sales tax exemption
certificate presented at check-in).
In order to receive
this rate, reservations must be made prior to January 10, 2005.
Please be aware that traditionally the block of guest rooms fills before the
deadline, therefore we encourage you to make your reservation at your earliest
convenience. After January 10, the discounted rate is not guaranteed.
Please contact the
hotel directly at (352) 376-1661 to make a reservation or you may fax your
completed reservation form, provided in this section, directly to the hotel at
(352) 336-8717.
Any room
reservation canceled within five (5) days of arrival will be charged one night’s
room deposit.
The hotel check-in time
is 3:00pm and check out is 12:00 noon.
Air service is provided through the Gainesville Regional
Airport (GNV), just north of Gainesville. The Holiday Inn University Center
provides complimentary shuttle service from 7:00am until 10:00pm daily to and
from the airport.
Additional air service is available in Jacksonville (JAX),
Orlando (MCO) and the Tampa (TPA) areas and is a 2-3 hour drive from the
University of Florida.
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Meeting
Site Information |
 The
Meeting Site is within walking distance of the Holiday Inn University Center
and is located at the J. Wayne Reitz
Union at the University of Florida on Museum Road. Participants
will need to go to the second floor and check in at the conference registration
table for nametags and conference materials.
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Conference
Steering Committee |
The conference
is organized by a steering committee under the auspices of the University of
Florida/IFAS School of Forest Resources and Conservation and the Forest
Management Trust Partnership. The steering
committee includes the following individuals:
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Janaki Alavalapati, Ph.D.,
University of Florida/IFAS, School of Forest Resources & Conservation
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Robert J. Buschbacher, Ph.D., University of Florida/IFAS, School of
Forest
Resources and Conservation
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Georgia
Carvahlo, Ph.D.,
Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC), Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazonia
(IPAM)
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Michael Heckenberger, Ph.D.,
University of Florida, Department of Anthropology
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Francis E. Putz, Ph.D.,
University of Florida, Department of Botany
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Marianne Schmink, Ph.D.,
University of Florida,
Tropical Conservation & Development Program
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J. Richard Stepp, Ph.D.,
University of Florida, Department of Anthropology
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Daniel J. Zarin, Ph.D.,
University of Florida/IFAS, School of Forest Resources & Conservation
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Conference
Sponsors |
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The Milton and Miriam Handler
Foundation
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USDA Forest Service
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US Agency for International
Development
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Instituto Internacional de
Educação do Brasil
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University of Florida/IFAS, Office
of the Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources
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University of Florida/IFAS, Office
of the Dean for Research
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University of Florida/IFAS, School
of Forest Resources & Conservation
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University of Florida Office of
Research & Graduate Programs
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University of Florida International
Center
- University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies
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For
More Information
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Program
Information
Daniel J. Zarin, Ph.D.,
Conference Chair
University of Florida/IFAS
School of Forest Resources & Conservation
PO Box 110760
Gainesville, FL 32611-0760
Phone: (352) 846-1247
Fax: (352) 846-1332
Email:
zarin@ufl.edu
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Registration
Information
Dianne Kattawar,
Conference Coordinator
University of Florida/IFAS
Office of Conferences and Institutes
PO Box 110750
Gainesville, FL
32611-0750
Phone: (352)
392-5930
Fax: (352) 392-9734
Email:
dkattawar@ifas.ufl.edu
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