The World Agroforestry Centre and World Vision are convening a Southern Africa Regional ‘Beating Famine Conference’ in Lilongwe, Malawi on 14-17 April, 2015.

The conference will be a successor to the highly successful Beating Famine Conference that was held in Nairobi in April 2012. That meeting served as a catalyst for a great deal of tangible action and organizational collaboration across East Africa to address food security, resilience and livelihood issues and opportunities. Following the conference a number of NGOs incorporated land regeneration practices into their programs (particularly farmer-managed natural regeneration and evergreen agriculture) and governments examined their policies to find ways of creating enabling environments for uptake of these practices.