8th APEAEN International Conference

• Date: 18–21 October 2023
• Venue: SEARCA, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines

Call for Abstracts

Registration and submission of abstracts for the 8th APEAEN International Conference are now open until 15 August 2023. Faculty, researchers, extension workers, agriculture technicians, and graduate students are invited to submit their abstracts of documentary articles and/or research results in English. Submissions will be evaluated in a review process organized by a scientific committee of the APEAEN.

Under the theme Emerging Trends, Dimensions, and Models in Agriculture and Environment Education, and Extension in Post-Pandemic Times, the conference is a joint activity among the Asia Pacific Association of Educators in Agriculture and Environment (APEAEN), SEARCA, and UPLB College of Public Affairs and Development (CPAf), in cooperation with the Central Bicol State University of Agriculture (CBSUA) and the Department of Agriculture - Region IV-A (CALABARZON).

It will provide an opportunity for APEAEN members and stakeholders to convene and share knowledge and best practices that can provide solutions to the problems and challenges being encountered by the agriculture sector, especially during a pandemic.

For abstract and manuscript guidelines, click here.

Conference Sub-themes

• Post-pandemic Models and Contents of Agriculture Education, Extension, and Community Development
• Science Communication Diplomacy and Rural Advisory Services
• Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction in Agriculture
• Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation, Waste Management, and Planetary Health
• Green Biotechnology and Circular Economy
• Agricultural Digitization, Role of Data, and Data Analytics

Background

In 1997, the Asia Pacific Association of Educators in Agriculture and Environment (APEAEN) was organized in Tokyo, Japan by the participants of a study meeting on agricultural education, which was organized by the Asian Productivity Organization (APO). APEAEN aims to serve as an international alliance for the identification and dissemination of new developments and best practices in the field of agriculture education and environment; to promote exchange of technical and professional knowledge and information among its members, government leaders and the society in general for the improvement of education, research, and extension in the field of agriculture; and to search for new directions in solving problems related to the learning processes involved in agriculture and its environmental determinants in Asia and the Pacific. To date, APEAEN had already organized seven (7) international conferences: Laguna, Philippines (2002); Suwon, South Korea (2004); Nueva Ecija, Philippines (2007); Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan (2009); Nakhon Pathom, Thailand (2012); Naga City, Philippines (2014); and Tokyo, Japan (2018).

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 international conference did not push through. However, the pandemic opened new ways of doing things, and the virtual mode of conducting conferences has become more popular. However, with the desire to slowly revert to normalcy, the 8th International Conference will be conducted F2F. It will open a rich opportunity for sharing information and good practices to provide solutions to problems affecting the world populace.

With the pandemic, agriculture and rural communities, including the agricultural education and extension sectors, faced various issues and challenges in their operations. Planetary health, climate change, and disasters had been a huge challenge to the food and nutrition security of all nations. There is also a wide gap in the way science is communicated to our intended beneficiaries - the farmers and fisherfolks, and to our policy makers. To address these challenges, many emerging trends and technological practices are being tried to find good or even best practices to solve existing problems. Hence, this conference will provide an opportunity for APEAEN members and stakeholders to convene and share knowledge and good practices that can provide solutions to problems and challenges being encountered by the agriculture sector, especially during a pandemic.

Objectives

The 8th APEAEN International Conference has the following objectives:

1. Provide opportunity for APEAEN members and other stakeholders to share knowledge and good practices on the theme and sub-themes of the conference.
2. Find workable solutions to problems on climate change, disaster risks, planetary health, and food and nutrition insecurity that have huge impact on the agriculture sector productivity.
3. Identify suitable contents to upgrade and update the agriculture, extension education, and community development curricula to better address the challenges of the changing time.
4. Create opportunities for agriculture graduates to work in foreign countries through networking/collaboration with relevant institutions.
5. Provide opportunity for papers to be published in research journals or partner institutions.

APEAEN hopes to gather experts and budding researchers to share the products of their research and studies in this forthcoming F2F conference.

Abstract and Manuscript Guidelines

• Abstracts must be submitted in English (American), not more than 300 words, submitted as an MS Word file, with keywords (up to six keywords).
• Manuscript should be prepared on A4 size paper, 12-point Times New Roman, single-spaced, left and right justified.
• Separate paragraphs by a blank line and do not indent the beginning of the paragraphs, maximum number of pages for the manuscript is 10 pages.
• Structure paper in major and sub-headings, including Introduction, Methods and Materials, Results and Discussion, Conclusions, and References.
• Top of page should contain the title of the paper in bold capital letters, with the conference thematic area it belongs to, centered on the page width.
• Complete names of authors, their affiliations, and email addresses should be included. Underline the name of the presenter, centered on the page width.
• Include full contact details of submitting author/presenter (mobile number and email address).
• Use gender-neutral language and American rather than British spelling. For words that have several acceptable spellings and/or formats, prefer the format prescribed in the Webster's Third New International Dictionary (Unabridged).
• Italicize foreign words (i.e., not in English).
• Spell fully numbers from zero to nine except when followed by a unit of measure (e.g., three; 3 kg); Arabic numerals should be used for all other numbers (e.g., 14).
• Each table and figure (accompanied by the original tabulated data) must be numbered in order and placed at the end of the article. Submit editable tables and figures.
• All measurements should be expressed using International System of Units (SI). If local units must be used (e.g., cavan, rai, chupa). SI unit equivalent values must be shown beside the value or on footnote.
• Use the three-letter currency code as monetary units. The USD equivalent should be given when other monetary units are used.
• Reference list entries and in-text citation follow the Chicago Manual of Style (or CMOS). See example below:
  • (Reference list entry) Albiston, C.R. 2005. "Bargaining in the Shadow of Social Institutions: Competing Discourses and Social Change in the Workplace Mobilization of Civil Rights." Law and Society Review 39 (1): 11-47.
  • (In-text citation) As legal observers point out, much dispute resolution transpires outside the courtroom but in the "shadow of law" (Mnookin and Kornhauser 1979).

Click here to download the guidelines.

Deadline for submission of abstracts is on 15 August 2023.

• Abstracts may be submitted through: https://bit.ly/apeaen_abstract
• Registration may be done at: https://bit.ly/40hbwJv

Notice of acceptance will be sent on or before 30 August 2023 via email.

Important Dates to Remember

Conference Fees

*For cost efficiency, the organizers reserve the right to cancel the field visits if the total number of participants joining will not meet the required number.

Payment Methods

Contact

For more information, please contact the APEAEN Secretariat:

• https://bit.ly/fb_apeaen