II SIMPOSIO DESERTIFICACIÓN Y MIGRACIONES

Registration of participants and documentation delivering.

For obtaining the accreditation card or identification badge of participant at the Symposium, it’s necessary to show the Passport or I.D. card to the personnel of the Secretariat of the Symposium the first time you arrive at the University of Almería.

Opening act

• Speeches by the Authorities.
  
  
• “From Almeria I to Almeria II: Achievement and Policy Tasks”. by Hans Günther Brauch. Peace Research and European Security Studies (PRESS). Germany.

Session I. “Environmental problems generated by migration dynamics.”
Opening of the Session by the Moderator.

• “Desertification and migrations in Western Mediterranean: Consequences of the opposite population and capital flows”. Juan Puigdefábregas y Teresa Mendizábal. Spanish National Council for Research (CSIC), Spain.
  
  
• “Migration Dynamics Generated by Environmental Problems” by Janos Bogardi and Fabrice G. Renaud. Institute for Environment and Human Security. United Nations Universiy (UNU-EHS), Germany.

Session I - Continuation

• “Understanding Migration Choices: The UNCCD as a Mechanism for Developing Coping Strategies.” Secretariat of the UNCCD. Bonn, Germany
  
  
• “Migrations, urban expansion and environmental impact in the Metropolitan Area of Mexico City”. Ms. Martha Schteingart. The School of México.
  
  
• “Desertification and youth migration: a global perspective on challenges and opportunities”. Katim S. Touray. Consultant. Banjul, The Gambia.

Debate.

Session II. “Interaction between desertification and migrations. Case studies.”
Opening of the Session by the Moderator.

• "Technological changes and migratory flows: the case of the intensive agriculture". Andrés García Lorca. University of Almería, Spain.
  
  
• “Victims of ecological crisis, women are also marginalized by African local policies exiling them through emigration”. Fatima Alaoui. Mahgribian. Forum for the environment and development, Morocco.

Session II - Continuation

• “Desertification in the near Aral Sea Region and population migration”. Sergey Myagkov. International Scientific Cooperation Department of Hydrometeorological Research Institute (NIGMI) of Uzhydromet, Uzbekistán.
  
  
• “Desertification, consequence of the migrations towards United States of America and Canada”. Arturo Flores Martínez. General Directorate of Statistics and Environmental Information, México.
  
  
• "Migrations and desertification in China" Wu Zhongze. College of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia Agriculture University, China.

Debate.

Session III. “Political responses: Land Management and Cooperation to the Development aid.”
Opening of the Session by the Moderator.

• “Population Dynamics, Poverty Alleviation And Sustainable Development: A Demo-Economic And Spatial Framework”. Jean-Marie Cour. France.
  
  
• “South-South Cooperation. The Soil-Arid Programme”. Youssef Brahimi. Global Mechanism. United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (GM-UNCCD).

Session III - Continuation

• “Sustainable land management and poverty combat”. Luis Suárez-Carreño Lueje. “Heritage for Development Programme”. Spanish International Cooperation Agency (AECI).
  
  
• “The role of the women, megalopolis and deprived areas”. Úrsula Oswald Spring. Regional Centre of Multidisciplinary Research. National University of México, México.
  
  
• “Economic Opportunities for the Youth and Young People in the Drylands”. E. Venkat Ramnayya. ONG Youth for Action, India.

Debate .

Special Session: Methods and Techniques to Combat Desertification.
Preparation of Conclusions¹

• “The agro-hydrological management of basins in combating desertification and depopulation of the rural areas. Sustainability and management of irrigation water. Oued El Kheirat – Tunisia; a cooperation experience”  José Mª Rábade Blanco, José Luis San Miguel Atance y Valentín Gómez Mampaso. Grupo TRAGSA.
  
  
• “The development of the Cortadillo Agro-Industrial Sistem as a tool for job creation, desertification stop and counteract migrations in the Mexican Desert”. Efraín Álvidrez Vitolas. Unit for the Environmental Management Manuel Torres Valverde - Saltillo City; México.
  
  
• “The promotion of Jatropha curcas L. as a tool to combat desertification and to create employment to combat poverty”. Ibrahim Togola. ONG Mali-Folkcentre. Bamako, Mali.

• “A technological alternative in arid areas: The production of microalga biomass (Scenedesmus almeriensis) in a farmer greenhouse”. Emilio Molina Grima. Universidad de Almería.
  
  
• “The management of polders in the Lake Chad: combat of poverty of the Kouri du Lac shepherds”. Balaam Facho. Association pour la protection de l’environnement, Chad.

Closing Conference

• Lecture by Michelle Leighton. John F. Kennedy University. San Francisco, USA

Technical guided visits – Three simultaneous possible options eligible by the participants²:

1. Almería Solar Platform.
2. Las Palmerillas Research Centre.
3. Traditional Hydrology: Isabel II Reservoir and/or Molinos de Huebro.

Technical trip organised by the General Directorate of the Natural Environment of the Regional Council of Andalusia²: Cabo de Gata-Nijar Natural Park.