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:  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
Download the manuscript and poster guidelines!

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.