POWER ON YOUR PLATE
Posters
Posters
Power on Your Plate: All-Africa Summit on Diversifying Food Systems with African Traditional Vegetables to Increase Health, Nutrition and Wealth
The Scientific Committee invites oral presentations in the following categories:
1. DIVERSITY AND BREEDING
2. SEED SYSTEMS, ACCESS, AND QUALITY
3. FOOD ENVIRONMENTS
4. VALUE CHAINS AND SCALING
5. NUTRITION
6. BEYOND FOOD
All abstracts submitted must be original work and not previously presented in any other format at other symposia.
Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words.
All poster presenters, including invited and keynote speakers, must submit an abstract.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission closes
31 August 2020
Acceptance notification
30 September 2020
Full paper submission opens
30 September 2020
Preparation
- Poster size:Â 90 cm wide x 120 cm high
Poster structure
- Title
- Authors and affiliations. Speaker’s name should be underlined
- Introduction (background, motivation, purpose of research)
- Materials and Methods (assign scientific name for your materials)
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion and future plan
- Reference, acknowledgments, URL
Appearance
- Font size of body text should be easily legible by someone standing up to 2 m away and up to 5 m for the main title.
- Avoid long lines of text and too-small fonts that are difficult to read.
- Separate each part by columns to facilitate viewers’ comprehension.
- Assigning headings for each logical block or enclosing them with a box will help viewers understand the logical flow.
- Use a clean, simple design with no more than two fonts; bold and italic can provide variation.
- Ensure photos are sharp and clear when the poster is at full size.
Display
Posters will be on display throughout the symposium and will be discussed during specific poster sessions.
The poster session is scheduled for: TO BE ANNOUNCED
Set-up: TO BE ANNOUNCED
- All speakers are asked to be present in front of your poster during the poster session.
- All posters should be removed after the poster session ends; please do not remove the poster before that.
Posters remaining after the summit closes will be discarded.