8-9 November 2007

Thematic area A: Overview of sweet sorghum

• ICRISAT: Biopower
• P. Hazell: “Bio-energy and agriculture: promises and challenges for developing countries”
• K.P.C. Rao: “Socio-economic models for integrating the poor into large-scale sweet sorghum feedstock supply chains in dryland India”
• J. Tschirley: “Bio-fuel production in developing countries: sorghum and greenhouse gas balances”

Thematic area B: Sweet sorghum breeding

• Li Dajue: “Breeding for multiple use: sweet sorghum for fuel, feed, food and fiber”
  • Presentation
  • Developing sweet sorghum to meet the challenge of problems
    on food, energy and environment in 21st century
  • Studies on sustainable eco-agriculture system
    of sweet sorghum
• R. E. Schaffert, Brazilian: “Breeding progress and sweet sorghum: production systems in Brazil”
  Presentation
• B. Reddy: “Overview of sweet sorghum breeding at ICRISAT: opportunities and constraints”
  Powerpoint | Paper

Thematic area C: Agronomy

• B. Reddy: “Hybrid sweet sorghum production systems overview, including global mapping of sweet sorghum growing areas and its adaptability, especially in comparison with sugarcane”
  Presentation | Paper
• J. Woods: “Sweet sorghum agronomy for optimization of farmers’ returns” 
  Presentation
• Li Hongyu: “Sweet sorghum production systems and agronomy”
  Presentation
• K. Gallagher: “Approaches for the development and dissemination of improved pro-poor technology”
  Presentation
• L. Pari: “Sweet sorghum mechanization”
  Presentation

Thematic area D: Post-harvest technologies, processing and the private sector

• D. Bellmer: “In-field fermentation issues”
  Presentation
• A. Mandke: “Innovative technologies in fermentation, distillation and wastewater treatment”
  Presentation
• A. R. Palaniswamy: “Processing facility development for small farmer integration, including small-scale requirements”
  Presentation

Thematic area E: Socio-economic tools for decision-makers and business development

• J. Nyberg and I. Maltsoglou: “Socio-economic tools for decision makers. Case study: Tanzania”
  Presentation
• M. da Silva: “Opportunities for the private sector to assist the poor in bio-fuel development”
  Presentation
  
• A. Della Gherardesca: “Fuel for development: producing bio-fuels at the bottom of the pyramid”
  Presentation

Special session on the Tropical sugar beet

• D. Gokhale: “Bio-fuel production from sugar beet” 
  Presentation

Summary of findings